Most of us in Malaysia know Murtabak as a pan fried dough with most commonly some meats stuffed inside the folded fried bread. According to the Wikipedia , the name Murtabak or Martabak, also Mutabbaq in Arabic means “folded”. Here in Malaysia, Murtabak is sold commonly in Indian Muslim restaurant or the mamak stalls. The fillings usually includes minced meat, along with some chopped onion, garlic, egg and commonly eaten with curry.
Most of us are not aware that Murtabak or Martabak in Indonesia is also served sweet. And no, you don’t have to buy a ticket to Indonesia just to taste this. Walk in to most Indonesian restaurant and they might just have one on the menu. And better if you are right around Sunway area. It might have accidently came to my attention that a shop that is rather low profile on the outside actually sells quite a variety of sweet murtabak.
I tasted the Special which consist of chocolate, cheese and peanuts. Imagine a combination of all these ingredients folded in sweet but slightly salted thick pancake. The pancake tasted real similar to one of those crispy folded pancake with peanuts that is smaller in size, commonly sold at any pasar malam. But this one is thick and soft, slightly a little spongy and chewy with a tiny bit of salt from the thick butter.
Starting with the flour mix and when the pancake is done and while it is still hot, cheese was grated and sprinkled onto the entire surface of the pancake that is so much bigger than my head.
Follow by the chocolate sprinkles before the grounded peanuts.
After which some condensed milk was poured onto the pancake before folding them into half.
I am already wondering at this point if this would taste as good as it promises.
In case if you are wondering about the hygiene of this, then worry not because plastic gloves instead of just bare hands are in action.
Folded so the pancakes would sandwich those ingredients inside and lastly cutting into smaller pieces. If this is dessert, then I must say you probably won’t eat more than two pieces of these. The slices are really huge and each slice has got a plump size of pancake. Strictly for sharing this one and I love it uniquely quite a weird combination in a good way.
The shop doesn’t sell this from the kitchen order. In fact because this is common Indonesia street food, this is available from the stall at the entrance of the restaurant. Prices range from RM 3.50- RM 6.50. Look for Restaurant Warong Emak (same row as McDonalds) and the stall is next to the Kia showroom.
The M.B.I stall is located at the Restaurant Waroeng Oma at :
42-1, Jalan PJS 8/2,
Sunway Mentari, Petaling Jaya,
Bandar Sunway, 46150
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Interesting! I’m going to the area today.
Yeah, this looks like the kueh they sell in pasar malam but made like a murtabak! Cheese would taste lovely I bet! 🙂
Great! you let me know what you think about it.
Ooh, that looks delicious.
It was quite a unique flavour…chocolate, cheese, butter and nuts. It was my first time trying this.
This Murtabak Indonesia looks like apam balik….
They have so many types of fillings…which is a good thing! 😉
YES! Like apam balik..I wish they use better ingredients, like better butter and cheese.
Hi, I came through STP’s blog. 😀 I never knew that there’s sweet kind of murtabak. I’m not into sweet things, but these looks quite nice. 😀
ps: Looks like apom tho, the sweet murtabak.
Thank you for reading. I do think that it is somewhat influenced by the geographical aspect (since we are neighbouring countries hence the similarity), or it might have been improvised from the ones we are familiar with (or vice versa).
Murtabak? Looks like our apam balik…and I don;t like this thick one – prefer the thin, crispy one.
A lot of us would prefer the crispy version. And I really like the savoury one. With ham and mayonnaise. I wonder if they have those crispy ones in Indonesian style?
with all the filling, I know I’ll like this Indonesia’s version apam balik! 😛
That is Murtabak Indonesia?! Copy our apam balik is it? Haha!
Hahhahaha, maybe we copied them…
their murtabak is similar to malaysia’s apam balik? no?
Interesting…at first I thought it was similar to our local chinese pancake with peanuts and all until I read more. This will definitely be the hubster’s love….but will mot share this with him till he’s done with the 3 days detox.
Poor thing…. Lol..but detox is good…
OMG.. i am looking at the wrong thing at the moment.. daarn hungry now..
will go hunt for it too . . 🙂
The menu is a long list of this thing. Not a healthy dessert, but once in a while it is alright.. 🙂
The combination of cheese, butter, peanuts, chocolates are so perfect! This is one of my fav breakfast during my stay in Jakarta. I miss it badly… Gonna try it out and let you know whether as good as In Jakarta. So happy to see this post, great job SY…. 🙂
Oh…then you must go try this and let me know if they are as good. These guys are also from Indonesia.