[Culinary Travel Medan]: Soto Medan at RM Sinar Pagi

It was lunch time. We did not want to miss our golden time to try truly Medanese famous food. So we said to our clients that we did not want to have lunch at hotel. Instead, we want to have lunch at Soto Medan Sinar Pagi. The clients asked us why we want to have lunch in Sinar Pagi. We told them that we love culinary experience and whenever we went to a new place, we would try local foods and Soto Medan at RM Sinar Pagi has become a legendary Medanese food which we must try. So, finally we went to RM Sinar Pagi.

RM  Sinar Pagi is located at Jl. Sei Deli Medan. It is not so far from our hotel. But due to small traffic, it took about 15-20 minutes to reach there. The place is small and decent.

What offered by this decent place is "Nasi Soto". But the soto is Soto Medan. Original Medanese food. There are three types of soto offered i.e. beef soto, chicken soto and mixed soto. Mxed soto includes jeroan . Jeroan is term of meat inside the stomach of cow. So if you do not like jeroan just order beef or chicken soto. Each type of soto served in different bowl. Small bowl is for mixed soto, while big bowl is for beef soto and big oval bowl for chicken soto.

 The inside place was a bit hot and crowded. We order some mixed soto and beef soto.

Not until five minutes after sitting, a waiter served the soto and rice. Very fast. Along with rice, a home-made sambal kecap (soy sauce chilli) was also served. The home-made sambal kecap makes the taste of this soto become very specify and nice.

Soto Medan is closed to Soto Jakarta or Soto Betawi only that the coconut milk used is lighter than Soto Betawi and it does not use fat. What makes Soto Medan  different is that there is a taste of curry in it.

Soto Medan is best served with boiled rice. Soto Medan is served warm with potato patties (perkedel), sprinkled with shallot flakes, chopped spring onions and celery.

Mixed Soto Medan:

 Beef Soto Medan:

If you do like spicy the home-made sambal kecap is the perfect companion.

Thank you for our clients to treat us lunch at RM Sinar Pagi.

Visited on: 03/12/2013

RM Sinar Pagi 
Jl. Sei Deli (cross Jalan Gatot Subroto)
Medan, North Sumatera