Bandung Review : A Sweet Escape with Wajit Cililin (BETA VERSION)

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A Sweet Escape with Wajit Cililin

In our daily life, we frequently select foreign products instead of local ones including our snacks. But now it is time for us to go traditional, like enjoying this unique sweet from Bandung. The sweet is called wajit, which is a brown colored sweet wrapped in a dry corn leaf. Its taste is equally yummy like those imported chocolates from Belgium or Switzerland.

You can spot the most delicious wajit in Cililin, West Bandung. There are about 30 wajit sellers who are still actively producing finest wajit of Bandung. Want to know the mystery behind its amazing taste? Well, let’s take a peek on how they make this Bandung’s sweet delicacy. Wajit is made from palm sugar, white sugar, coconut, sticky rice and vanilla. We have to mix all the ingredients to a large pan that has been filled with water before and let it blend until it thickens into dough. Next, cut the dough into small pieces and wrap them with dry corn leaves. For the final touch, dry the wajit using nyiru (traditional pan made from woven bamboo) until the dough is quite crispy outside but still fluffy inside.

Wajit Cililin is already famous across the whole country. That is why you can find it, from small stalls to large stores in Bandung, Jakarta, Cikampek, Purwakarta, Karawang even Papua. Wajit has become Indonesia’s most favorite snacks. However, if you want a fresh from the oven one, then you still have to visit the local factory on Cililin, Bandung.

The price is also very affordable. It only cost you Rp. 6. 500 per kilograms wajit in Cililin. The seller can sell a minimum of 100 kilograms of wajit every week. When the Hajj pilgrimage season come, the pilgrims often bring wajit to the Holy Land. Moreover, in this fasting month of Ramadhan, you can make wajit as your new choice of Iftar menu.

It is a yum-yum to pamper your appetite with sweet dear wajit Cililin. Don’t forget to brush your tooth afterwards, so the sweetness of wajit won’t decay your precious tooth. (FA/IF)

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