10 Facts About Batak cuisine

Batak cuisine is the cuisine and cooking traditions of Batak ethnic groups, predominantly found in Northern Sumatra region, Indonesia.

Batak cuisine is part of Indonesian cuisine, and compared to other Sumatran cuisine traditions, it is more indigenously preserved.

Batak cuisine people are majority Christian — unlike neighboring Muslim-majority ethnic groups such as Aceh and Minang — Christian Batak cuisine people are not restricted to Islamic halal dietary law.

The Northern Sumatra capital of Medan is a Batak cuisine hotspot where numerous of Lapo can be found, yet the city is a culinary center of halal Malay Deli, as well as Indian Cuisine and Chinese Indonesian cuisines.

Outside its traditional lands in North Sumatra, Batak cuisine can be found in Lapo in Jakarta, as well as most of the Indonesian major cities.

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Batak cuisine however, retain its indigenous Austronesian cooking traditions; such as cooking meats along with its blood.

The most common Batak cuisine spicy sauce is called arsik — it is a Batak cuisine sauce made from the mixture of andaliman, turmeric, garlic and candlenut.

Many centuries Batak cuisine tribes has led a relatively isolated way of life and maintained their ancestral belief systems.

Today majority of Batak cuisine tribes are Christian, for example Batak cuisine Toba, Karo, and Pakpak.

Batak cuisine Lapo Tuak is a drinking establishment dedicated to serve this traditional alcoholic beverage.