The Semarangan cuisines are adapted to Chinese cuisines and local culture. Some of the typical Semarangan Foods are :
Javanese style
Javanese food tends to be much more sweet.
Chinese style
There are different style of Chinese food in Indonesia:
• New style Chinese food with chefs from China, Hongkong or Taiwan.
• Traditional Chinese food, such as the Teochew, Hokkian, Hakka dishes.
• Chinese-Indonesian food with recipes borrowed from Dutch and other European cuisine as well as local cuisine.
• Chinese dishes adapted to the local taste, such as replacing pork with chicken or beef to make it halal food.
Some of the typical Chinese Semarangan Food:
• Bakmi, noodles which are adapted to different styles and regions. Each city has its own recipe for noodles or mie, e.g. Bakmi Jawa, Mie Ti-Tee, ('Bak-Mi' comes from the Hokkien pronunciation for 'Meat-Noodle').
• Bakso, Bak-So is the Hokkien pronunciation for 'Shredded-Meat'.
• Bakwan, Bak-Wan is the Hokkien pronunciation for 'Meat-Ball', usually made from beef.
• Cap cai, named for the Hokkian word for a mixture of various types of vegetables. Usually served as stir fried mixed vegetables with chicken when ordered as ala carte.
• Fu yung hai, sometimes spelled Pu yung hai, is a type of omelette filled with vegetables and meat (usually crab meat, shrimp or minced chicken) served in sweet and sour sauce.
• Kwetiau goreng, fried flat noodle similar to char kuay teow.
• Lumpia, a fresh spring roll of Hokkien/Chaozhou-style origin.
• Mie goreng, fried noodle with spices and chili darkened with kecap manis.
• Nasi goreng, fried rice with spices and chili, often add kecap manis, but another variant may differ.
• Nasi Tim, steamed chicken rice served with chicken brooth soup.
• Pau, which is the Chinese word for 'bun'; sometimes written as Bak-Pau, literally meaning 'Meat-Bun', which is a bun with meat fillings. (Bak is the Hokkien pronunciation for 'meat'.)
• Sapo, Sa-Po which is the Chinese word for 'Clay-Pot'.
• Siomay, similar to Chinese dim sum.
• Swikee, frog legs dish.
• Tahu Pong, fried tofu with sweet soybean sauce with chopped chili. 'Tau-Hu' also comes from the Chinese word for 'Bean-Curd'.
