Maverick Indonesia

Click Of The Week #24: Manda La Mendol

We Indonesian love to eat and if you happen to be heading toward Surabaya, with a hankering for “jajanan pasar” or street food you might find this blog, jagomakan, useful.

Kept by Manda La Mendol, the blog is a delightful list of the author’s intimate knowledge of Surabaya’s favorite food haunts. Manda is a journalist for East Java Traveler Magazine and Surabaya City Guide, magazines that focus on tourism, including food, around Surabaya. She also told Maverick through e-mail that she used to be a food taster for her grandmother’s food catering service. So she’s well qualified to write about food.

Manda, who used to work in local newspapers/tabloids like Kompetitor, Kredit, Berita Sore, Surabaya Pagi, and Mossaik, reviews the entire variety food in Surabaya and nearby areas, ranging from traditional food such as pecel terong, sate ponorogo, klepon, to international food such as dim sum, lobsters, and steaks.

Because of her blog, Manda has been appointed a moderator for milis Bango, a mailing list focused on traditional food in Indonesia.

So if you are Surabaya-boudn and a foodie like the Mavericks in this office are, you might want to check her blog before getting on board your plane.