Food Part 3 - Warung

I haven't done as much eating at warung as I thought I would (a decent cluster of them are an angkot ride away) and after dark the angkot don't go past my house, so it's not that convenient. However, on my way home from the supermarket I have tried some sweets/snacks. The first was es cendol, from a gorgeous old man with a cart, who was quite bemused when I asked for a photo. I think he might not have much Indonesian, and probably speaks Sundanese (the local language), but we got there in the end.

Basically cendol is a mix of coconut milk, palm sugar syrup, water and different-shaped jellies made from rice flour. It's sweet, but the palm sugar gives a depth that's hard to describe - I guess like brown sugar, but better! A bit butterscotchy? The jellies don't have a strong taste - the green ones were made with pandan, of course, but I guess they are there for texture. 

The penjual (seller) mixes up the ingredients in a glass, then pours it into a plastic bag. You can 'drink' it straight away (the green jellies made it up my straw, but not the pink ones!) or he will tie the bag and you can take it home. It doesn't look as difficult to make as I imagined - here's a recipe I found with a quick google search if you are interested. If you can find the ingredients, it's definitely worth it!

http://www.belindo.com/indonesia/indonesian-recipes/beverages/es-cendol/183

Last Saturday I finally stopped at this warung, which I've been wanting to for a while, but have not been able to justify it. Cue a message from my sister, reminding me to keep taking food pictures! So, for research purposes of course, I bought one of each. The warung has 'gorengan' written on the side, which literally means fried things. Grammar note: the suffix -an turns the verb 'goreng' (to fry), into a noun. There are lots of gorengan warung on the streets, but most of them sell savoury gorengan, and that's not as appealing to me!

Okay - here's my attempt at describing each of these! I'll go clockwise from the twisty one at the bottom. My apologies for the lack of names - I had to get my shopping home so didn't stop to talk much, although the guy was lovely - I will have to go back some time. Purely for research, of course!
1. The twisty one was fairly hard, more like a biscuit than a pastry, and only just barely sweet.
2. Next was banana wrapped in a cakey-type pastry - again only just sweet, but yummy because of the banana.
3. The doughnut shaped one is, you guessed it, a doughnut! A light, soft doughnut with just a fine coating of sugar.
4. The long thing one was more like a chox pastry, very airy.
5. The round ball coated in sesame seeds had some sort of bean paste in the middle, maybe red bean.
6. The dark one next to it was the only truly sweet gorengan in the mix - which surprised me because usually desserts are VERY sweet. This one was sticky and dense in the middle with a crusty, sugary outside. Very yummy, but I have no idea what it was made from! Maybe sesame?
7. The next one was very like number 4, only a different shape!
8. The last one was round and not too thick, with a nut filling.