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Hello, friends especially foodies!

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Last week after we had had our lunch in a street food noodle stall, we were curious to try the snacks which also sold on the street, next to the noodle seller. Maybe you asked us why? It was because many customers came to buy it.. some after they ate in the noodle stall to take home, some before they entered the book store behind where the noodle and this snack stall located.

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To answer our curiousity we then came to the stall.

The stall was not large, it was dominated with yellow and purple color. And after we asked the seller, this stall sold bola ubi kopong, or if it is translated to english it means empty sweet potato balls. It made us more curious, because we never tried these snacks... In my country if people said they sold sweet potato balls, commonly were small potato balls with the diameter around 2 cm and they weren't empty, no filling but just the sweet potato in balls then fried. Well these ones were different so let's give it a try!

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These sweet potato balls only came in an original flavour and it sold by 10 pieces or by 20 pieces (as i remembered), as a trial we bought the 10 pieces ones. And here were the photos of the making process.

At first the seller opened the raw sweet potato balls on the box then put it on the heated oil. He left it a while until reached some heatness then he started to push the balls. He tried to give the same pressure to all sides of each ball.

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And he repeated this process over and over again until all the balls were bigger (it reached around 5 cm diameter from the original raw only 1.5-2 cm diameter) and also well cooked, wow! The seller seemed already pro in doing it..

After the cooking process finished, he dried the oil on the surface that the balls might had by scrolling them in a sponge tissue on the tray. One thing for sure, the hygienity. Not every street food are clean but this one is clean. Good! A plus value for me..

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I didn't forget to pay, it was 20K IDR or around 1.3 USD for 10 pcs of the balls. Affordable snacks from the street, right? And they also already provide the qr code to pay so you don't need to pay by cash, you could do it online like i did.

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Now here how these sweet potato balls looked

It wrapped in a white paper bag. The seller gave the satay stick to eat it. So we ate by stabbing the sweet potato balls with the stick. The balls looked big with yellow brownish skin.

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And now how about the flavour and also the taste?

They had perfect original flavour of the sweet potato balls, sweet. They also had good crunchy and soft medium thickness skin but soft, and inside were truly empty... After eating it i didn't feel any thristy and my throat was okay, no MSG they put and also it was hygienic. So i recommended these balls when you want a tasty non MSG hygienic snacks..

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So when will you give it a try?

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Business Information

Bolobi (Bola Ubi Kopong)
40C, QJ9 Hibrida Raya Street
Kelapa Gading
North Jakarta
Open daily 8 am - 6 pm

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The photos were all taken with my Samsung A52 5G.

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