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Nasi Kapau

by - August 04, 2019


Bukittinggi is not only famous for the global Clock Tower. Not only with a number of other natural beauty tourist sites. But it is also famous for its food. One of them is Kapau Rice.
In Pasar Ateh there are many exotic kapau rice shops with colorful side dishes. The exact location is in Los Lambuang, Pasar Ateh. About 300 meters from the Clock Tower in the city center. Kapau is a name in Tilatang Kamang Subdistrict, Agam Regency. About 15 km from Bukittinggi. Kapau residents are known to be good at food mixing. According to local stories, only native Nagari Kapau can produce culinary delights as good as Kapau Rice. Not just anyone knows the original concoction of typical spices in Kapau. To be sure, every family has its own composition and always kept a secret from generation to generation. Even to get a delicious tambusu, only people from Nagari are good at processing it.
This Kapau rice can also be called Minangkabau rames rice. This Kapau Rice is different from Padang Rice or other Ampera Rice. Kapau rice has its own uniqueness starting from the restaurant, always serving its food menu in a large pan arranged terraced. When serving the buyer, a long-stemmed spoon of coconut shell is used to take the food menu to the buyer's dinner plate. Cool again, the food menu offered is very diverse, can be 15-20 types. Vegetable curry is his trademark Kapau Rice. This curry consists of large pieces of cubadak (jackfruit), bamboo shoots, cabbage, ferns, long beans and sometimes jengkol. A typical side dish is tambusu, a mixture of chicken eggs and tofu that is put into the intestines of 12 beef fingers. One portion of Kapau Rice consists of rice whose rice must be of high quality from Bukittinggi City and Agam Regency. For side dishes, the choices are fish curry, jerky, tambusu, rendang chicken, kalio, skin curry and so forth. Then the rice and side dishes are doused with curry sauce, pieces of beef jerky, various types of sambal both red samba lado, anchovy green samba lado and not to forget also vegetable curry. The price of one portion of Kapau Rice is quite different from other rice, it can reach Rp. 25 thousand. But it is not a problem for lovers of Kapau Rice who are willing to satisfy their stomachs. So, it is not complete your arrival to Bukittinggi if you do not taste the delicious and spicy Kapau Rice.

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