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Burgo

Traditional dish from Indonesia

Street Food

About Burgo

Indonesian rice pancake

Burgo is an Indonesian folded rice pancake served in savoury whitish coconut milk-based soup, flavoured with fish, and sprinkled with fried shallots. The dish is one of the regional specialty of Palembang, the capital of South Sumatra, Indonesia. In Palembang, burgo is a popular choice for breakfast. Burgo is quite similar with lakso, although lakso is thick rice noodles and its soup has yellowish color acquired from turmeric.

Key Ingredients

  • Alpinia galanga
  • Allium sativum
  • Aleurites moluccanus
  • rice flour
  • Coriandrum sativum
  • coconut milk
  • tapioca
  • Channa striata
  • Kaempferia galanga

Dietary Information

✓ Popular street food
Traditional Indonesia cuisine

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