Rica-Rica and Sate Jamu “ Massri “

Jl. Ir. Sutami, Jebres, Solo 

             Sate is one of Indonesian popular food.  It’s usually made from chicken, goat, or  beef. How about Sate Jamu ? Is it made from jamu (Javanese traditional drink ) ?. Surely it’s not made from jamu, Sate Jamu is made from dog’s meat which combined with local spices.  It’s make Sate Jamu has spicy taste and can make warm our body, so people usually called this kind of food Sate Jamu.

            Rica-Rica is kind of food that come from Manado. This food name is come from Manado language which mean “hot” or refer to  “chilli” This food specialized on the spicy and hot taste of meat that cooked with the spices. The kind of Rica-Rica are very varietives, it can be from: chicken, duck, fish, beef, pork, etc. But this time we want to talk about Rica-Rica from dog’s meat. 

            Sate Jamu and Dog Rica- Rica is one of unique food that you can find easily in Solo. There are some famous stalls that sell this kind of food spread out around the city.  They usually open their stall in the evening, but you also can find who open in the afternoon, for example in Pemuda Street, Manahan there is a popular stall who sells food from Dog’s meat. That’s one of my favourites, but now I also want to tell another delicious dog’s meat food. It’s on Ir.Sutami Street, Jebres, Solo, the stall is owned by Massri and opened since 1977.  I had a little talk with about his stall in Friday evening , 28 September 2012. There are some point that i got from that talk, and I want to classified it with 10 contol point of food service control. 

·           Menu Planning

35 years ago Massri is a truck driver, he drive truck regularly from Solo-Jakarta vice versa.  He feel his job that time is not give him worthy money, beside that he also feel tired and want to lived with his family in Solo.  So in that time he decide to open a stall in Ir.Sutami Street, near his house in Jebres. 

He decide to sell Rica-Rica and Sate Jamu that time. It’s because he liked that kind of food.  It’s also because he was already familiar to cook that kind of food.  Rica-Rica made by Massri had a special things, it’s not made by Manado style but by Javanese style.  This food also had many lovers. He said that almost every day his food is sold out. He also said that every day he can gain profit around five hundred thousand rupiah. Those profits then shared with his wife and his employee which help him in the stall.

·           Puchasing

The food primary ingredient is Dog’s meat, to get best dog’s meat Massri had a supplier, which supplied him 50 dogs every week. The supplier is from Bandung,West java,  dogs is supplied in alive condition by truck every week.  In special case condition Massri also sometimes buy additional dogs from local breeder in Solo, for the example is when he get a big order, and his dogs is not enough, he buy extra dogs from the breeder.  For the spices and other ingredients such as : Rice. Carbon, Tea, salt,sugar, lemon,etc; Massri buy it from the market three times a week. 

·           Receiving

            From the supplier. Massri get a good quality dogs everyweek.  Massri said that the supplier usually come on time, it’s very rare that the supplier come after he got the short stock of dogs.  For the other iggredients which buy from market, it has own special seller. He buy from he has own  regular seller as a place to but his food ingredients.

·           Storage

            After get the ingredients, then the ingredients is keep in his house before being cooked. For the dogs, Massri had a large cage to keep his dogs. He keep his dogs and only take 5-7 dogs everyday to be killed and be cooked.

·           Issuing

            Before prepare cook the meat and ingredients, the ingredients is moved to the kitchen. The kitchen is located in Massri house.  Before that the dogs also moved to the back yard to be killed.

·           Preparing

            In Preparation to killed the dog,  there are some equipment that needed. There are knife, carver, bucket and hose. The knife and crver must be sharp and clean. It’s must be to keep the meat clean and the dog can died instanly.

            In Cooking there are some other equipment. The equipment for cooking is frying pan, pot, and stove.  There are also a griller to make sate. The griller need carbon to make fire on it, so the carbon must ready everyday.   The Ingredients and equipment must be ready before cooking. Massri usually preparing his cook in the morning, he also helped by his wife’s to prepare and cook the food.

In this step is also include the process of killing the dogs. The dog is killed by knife to make it died instanly, not like the other style which make dog drawn on the water to killed it. After the dog is died, it need to be clenaed. The meat is cutted and separated from the skin. It also cleaned the dog meat from the dirt.  After the meat is cut out and separated, the meat is wah out by water. This also to make sure the meats are clean.

·         Cooking

            The cooking process is usually start after noon. It start after the meats and ingredients are ready. The first the meat is boiled on the pot. It’s to make the meat to be more sotf. While the meats are cokked, the spices is blend together into a mix. This mixture is become the combination of the food.  After around 2 hours, the meat is moved to other pot and mix woth the spices. It boiled and mixed until the meat is well cooked. The sign the meat is well cooked is the meats colour that red.  That is the basic meats that cooked in Massri house. This meat can be used to make Rica-Rica or Sate.

            The next step is to cook and serve the menu to customers.  The basic meat then bring to the food stall and be set up for cook. The nest cook is depend on the customers request. Is it Rica Rica  or Sate Jamu ? If it Rica-Rica it will cooked with the spices again in the frying pan and added with pepers. If it’s Sate Jamu, it will cook in griller and griill with sweet soy sauce, not with peanut sauce. .

·         Holding

           The cooking process in the food stall is quick. It’s only need around five minutes per order. The time is little bit longer for making Sate Jamu because it depend on the fire temperature in the grill.  Because Massri used medium frying pan, it makes if there are big number of order he need to separated the order and cooked it into two part or three part of cooking.

·         Serving

            The serving of the food is just  like other Rica or Sate. Rica Rica is served in a plate with it’s tick dressing.  It’s consist of bones and meat, every plate should  consist of it and also some lever.  It’s served in hot condition, people can eat it by spoon and fork or eat it by hand.  But mostly of the customers eat it by using their hand, because it’s more easier and had special taste.

            Sate jamu is served just like ordinary sate.  It’s consist of meat which grilled and served with soy sauce.  It little bit different because it’s not using peanut sauce. Massri said that peanut sauce is not match if combined with Sate Jamu.  In Sate Jamu plate there are also chilli, cabbage,onion, and garlic, it’s can be used to add more taste for the sate.

·         Cleaning and Maintenance

Cleaning, is one of the important part of food business. Massri said that he always tried to make his food product is clean. He always clean the dishes by dish soap. He provide four until five bucket to wash and collect the dish.  For the water source he get it from the Factory behing his food stall, which connected to his food stall.   For the maintenance, Massri said he change his equipment when it’s wrecked. For the example for frying pan if it’s sticky, it’s mean it need the new one . For the pot , it sometimes leak, so it ned to be fixed, or be change.