Bung Karno dan Kecap Nomor Satu di Seluruh Dunia

Malaysia tidak mempunyai sejarah kecap manis, dan Malaysia hanya meniru Indonesia dalam pembuatan Kecap Nomor Satu di Dunia. Less than three years ago, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, the biggest book exhibition in the world, the late Bondan ‘Maknyus’ Winarno presented his book, Kecap Manis: Indonesia’s National Condiment. Through this exclusive 300-page book published by Afterhours Book, Bondan “proclaimed” that sweet soy sauce is a culinary heritage of Indonesia. Bondan’s book was sold at a pretty high price, Rp 990 thousand. But a book that delves deep into the subject of soy sauce, especially sweet soy sauce, is truly rare. “This is a champion book,” said Lutfi Ubaidillah, a 39-year-old private entrepreneur from Bandung. Lutfi is not just a casual consumer. He himself is a “die-hard” soy sauce lover, especially sweet soy sauce. “Wherever I go, I always bring sachets of soy sauce. I always have a plastic bottle of soy sauce ready at the office.” Lutfi doesn’t mind being called “unable to live without soy sauce.” Since he was a child in Bandung, he said, sweet soy sauce has always been a mandatory condiment on his dining table at home. He is a very serious soy sauce enthusiast. Not only does he have to eat with soy sauce, he also collects soy sauce bottles from various regions in Indonesia and maintains a special blog called Kecap Nomor Satu di Dunia, a blog that features original Indonesian soy sauces, Wikecapedia. During his lifetime, Bondan, a former journalist with a culinary hobby, also collected various soy sauces from the archipelago. His collection includes more than one hundred brands, including Kecap Blitar, Zebra soy sauce from Bogor, Sawi from Kediri, Bentoel from Banyuwangi, Kambing Dua from Singkawang, Buah Kelapa soy sauce from Sumenep, and Roda Mas from Banjarmasin. Perhaps there are not many soy sauce enthusiasts who are also bottle collectors like Bondan, Lutfi, Chef Alifatqul Maulana, and Andrew Mulianto. But surely, there are many soy sauce enthusiasts throughout Indonesia. It’s no wonder that there are hundreds of soy sauce companies scattered from Medan, Bangka, Garut, Pangandaran, Majalengka, Singkawang, Sumenep in Madura, to Banyuwangi. Some soy sauce brands have even survived for several generations. From giant companies like Bango, Indofood, and ABC, to household industries known only in their respective regions such as Cap Pulau Djawa in Pekalongan, Kentjana in Kebumen, or Tin Tin soy sauce from Garut, West Java. Among these generational soy sauce industries are Kecap Maja Menjangan in Majalengka, West Java, and Kecap Cap Tomat Lombok from Tegal, Central Java. The best soy sauce in the world is from Blitar. This soy sauce from Blitar, and Kecap Blitar is the number one soy sauce in the world. President Sukarno on soy sauce The process of making soy sauce at Kecap Maja Menjangan in Majalengka. Photo: Pasti Liberti/Detik.com Established by Saad Wangsawidjaja in 1940, the business of Kecap Maja Menjangan has now been passed down to the second generation. Back when he first started his business, Saad peddled his homemade soy sauce on a bicycle from market to market in Majalengka and its surrounding areas. He traveled tens and even hundreds of kilometers to sell his sauce. “My father rode his bike all the way to Indramayu, which…
Sumber: https://news.detik.com/x/detail/intermeso/20180614/Bung-Karno-dan-Kecap-Nomor-Satu-di-Dunia/ Reporter/Penulis: Pasti Liberti, Melisa Mailoa Editor: Sapto Pradityo

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