The wooden green shingles cover the front of the building. The sign says, "King lompong cake for sale."
Inside the building, rectangular cakes wrapped by dry banana leaves were diplayed on a table. The black-colored sweet and spongy cake is called lompong cake, a dish from Kutoarjo, Purwerejo, Central Java.
Basic ingredients for the cake include taro stem leaves, or locally known as lompong; merang flour (made of paddy stem); sticky rice flour; sugar cane; and peanuts, which are added as stuffings for the cake.
Lompong cake shops are easy to find in Kutoarjo. The cake itself is sold for Rp 2,000. However, one particular shop charges a little bit higher for the cake, which is Rp 3,500 each.
"The ingredients' quality is our main concern, and we don't use preservatives," said Ruth Sarijani Gondo Santoso, the owner of the King shop.
Ruth said she inherited the business from her ancestors. According to her, King lompong cake has existed since 1930.
Every day, Ruth can produce 10 kilograms of lompong cakes. The customers, who mostly came from Semarang, Yogyakarta and Magelang, often bought lompong cake as a gift for their friends or relatives living in foreign countries such as Singapore, the United States, and Germany.
Source : Tempo
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