Kompyang, the traditional hamburger from sidoarjo

Kompyang is one of traditional cake from china that so popular few years ago. The hard cake is made from flour mixture with salt and water and baking in hot soil stove. The kompyang avoid baking in the oven in order to keep the cake look traditional. Generally kompyang shape and size is the same with traditional cake, Bakpau from china, but few people make it with different shape.
Once upon time, one of the District at Sidoarjo regency east Java, called Krembung has tried to modify the Kompyang to be variation taste, sour taste and filling with chicken source so that more delicious taste. Pak Timin has been Kompyang entrepreneur since 1961, is so diligent to make improvement to this cake. He becomes success kompyang maker and seller. The market of his kompyang can spread to Sidoarjo, Malang, Jember, Probolinggo and Banyuwangi.
Pak Timin and his friend explained the experiences when the Sidoarjo Festival was held at Sidoarjo regency on September 11 until 18, 2009
He explained all his experiences when he began joining Chinese, learning how to make kompyang and told the audience how to make it step by step.
He told us, baking kompyang is different with others cake. We must have a stove from soil and only one place sell the stove, at Gresik east Java. There are few steps how to make kompyang in order to be good result,
1. We must burn the soil stove in order to be hot first. You can take the hot from burning wood that placed on the spade. We place the spade in the soil stove for little moment until the stove hot.
2. We prepare the kompyang ingredient while we are waiting the stove hot.
We mixture flour, salt and water to be mixture ingredient and shape like bakpao (traditional cake from China) You can fill with varieties taste that people like. For the time being, Pak Timin create chicken source taste and chocolate taste. He will create others varieties taste in the future.
3. Placed the ingredient on the wall of soil stove, keep them until baked.
Making Kompyang is too easy and the ingredient can buy in every small shop, but the most difficult one, the soil stove to bake it. The soil stove is too specific and you can not buy every where, the soil stove can be found at Gresik east java and the price is expensive too. Bapak Timin became a pioneer at his village, followed by others people at the time, but the people not only create kompyang. They made roti goreng, orok orok, cakue, kue Lumpur, gempo, kucur and onde onde.
The regent of Sidoarjo Regency, Bapak Win Hendrarso saw the district potential and decided to declare the Krembung district became Kampoeng Jajanan Center at Sidoarjo regency. The Government of Sidoarjo regency empowers the Krembung entrepreneurs, to give capital and training and helping socialize the potential through Jawa Pos media and Internet www.sidoarjokab.go.id
The regent hope, they can be empowered by their talent and improving their economy and standard of live.