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mendoan

Indonesia

Mendoan is a type of fried food that comes from the residency of Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia.

Tempe mendoan is a traditional food from Central Java, mendo means half cooked. Tempe mendoan is made from soybeans also in a different method from the usual tempe. Mendoan tempeh is arranged in banana leaves with soybeans that are separated slightly apart and not much, so the…
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Mendoan is a type of fried food that comes from the residency of Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia.

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02 · Where & name
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Mendoan is a type of fried food that comes from the residency of Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia.

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Sources on this page place mendoan in Indonesia.

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Mendoan is a type of fried food that comes from the residency of Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia. The word mendoan comes from the Banyumasan language word Mendo which means half-cooked or mushy; mendoan means cooking with much hot oil quickly so the cooking is not properly completed. Mendoan is often made of tempeh and tofu.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mendoan”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

mendoan is Indonesian fritter made of tempeh, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1

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