Bandung Shopping Guide:
Let’s Go Hunting Snacks In Bandung!

Your Bandung shopping list will not be complete without shopping for snacks. Bandung is very famous for delicious and unique snacks. Some favorite snacks that are highly recommended  in this Bandung Shopping Guide are:

Presently, there are eight Kartika Sari shops, the most sought after  are located in the heart of Bandung tourism:

- H. Akbar street, across Bandung railway station.

- Ir. H. Djuanda (Dago) street

- Kebon Jukut street

There are two types of brownies in Bandung: baked and steamed. The pioneer of baked brownies in Bandung is Prima Rasa bakery and pastry shop. Later on Kartika Sari and Mayasari cake shops also bake and sell brownies in their shops. In my opinion, Prima Rasa’s brownies is still the best.

You can find Prima Rasa bakery and pastry shops at:

• Kemuning street, this is the first shop and it is still the main kitchen of Prima Rasa.
• Pasirkaliki street, near Istana Plaza mall. This is the newest shop accentuated with modern and comfy interior.
• Buah batu street.
• Peta street.
  

The pioneer of steamed brownies is Amanda. It sells them in cars parked in busy streets of Bandung, such as Kebon Kawung street, near Bandung railway station (the new entrance), and Dago (Ir. H. Juanda) street.

If you asked me, I still prefer the baked brownies. In my opinion the chocolate flavor is tastier when the brownies is baked.

Bandung Shopping Guide continues the snack hunting to the most original snack from Sunda: comro. It is a Sundanese acronym for ‘Oncom di Jero’, meaning it is filled with oncom. Oncom is a unique food you can only find in Sunda. It is made of peanuts fermented with fungi. So, this snack is made of fried cassava with spicy oncom in the middle. You can find this snack in food carts selling fried traditional snacks on pedestrian walks.  Usually they also sell fried tofu filled with bean sprout and slices of carrot, fried banana covered with crispy dough, etc.