Lumpia SAMIJAYA — Restaurant in Yogyakarta

Lumpia Samijaya Antimainstream

Food: Original spring roll, special spring roll (use quail eggs) Taste: 8/10 Price: IDR 5,000-6,000

It is not a typical food of Yogyakarta, but it should be one culinary that needs to be tried. This spring roll has adapted to the Javanese tongue of jogja. Starting from the filling to the sauce used until the filling.

From the contents, it still uses bamboo shoots and carrots. but there are additional short sprouts. Semarang lumpia is dominated by bamboo shoots, then in Surabaya also uses sprouts, but the type is long sprouts.

Lumpia Samijaya uses short sprouts that have a crunchy taste even though they are cooked. The smell that appears is also more typical. Making this food has a different impression from other spring rolls.

Then another chicken stuffing, brown like in soy sauce. sweeter. If you pay close attention to chicken stuffing for chicken noodles.

In addition to the main treats, the sauce used is different. If in Semarang use tauco, a mixture of onions and soy sauce. Tends to be brown or reddish. Here, using the mixture of onions mixed with yam (my guess). It gives the impression of a fresh and unique taste.

I suggest to buy these snacks come early. Or order first and just stay around the Malioboro area. Usually the fastest can be served within 15 minutes. But when the line is full, it can take more than an hour.

If you want to explore other spring rolls, in the front row of Beringharjo Market, there are also many that sell. It was also not inferior to Lumpia...

People say that this is the best lumpia in Jogja, but sadly I have to disagree. It tasted just average, with lumpia filled by bean sprout (like, really?) besides the regular filling of bamboo shoots. This place is usually packed with people queueing to buy the lumpia, but thankfully I didn't have to queue since they were about to close for today, I was among the last to order this day.

There are 2 kind of lumpia here: lumpia ayam and lumpia spesial. Lumpia ayam is filled by bamboo shoots, bean sprout, and chicken meat. It costs Rp5.000 per piece. Lumpia spesial is lumpia ayam with quail egg added inside. It costs Rp6.000 per piece.

Personally, I prefer lumpia full of bamboo shoots and added with chicken meat. Bamboo shoots add sweetness to the lumpia. But with bean sprout added into the lumpia, it reduces the amount of bamboo shoots. It's quite bland in flavour. I appreciate that the seller adds a whole quail egg into the lumpia (which tastes nice, another lumpia seller only add a half of quail egg if there is any), but the quail egg consumes space inside the lumpia.

Thus, the lumpia here is nice, but it is not...

2023 Sekarang ada 2 lokasi di Malioboro. 1 di dekat Starbucks, lebih pas buat yang beli dikit dan males nunggu. Mau makan di lokasi juga bisa tinggal duduk di bangku yg ada di sepanjang jalan. Haus? Ada penjual minuman keliling. Oh iya ini bungkusnya pake kertas coklat doang trus ditaruh dalam plastik (dikasih rawit sama, parutan bawang/timun), hati-hati sama lelehan minyaknya pas lagi makan. Sedangkan 1 lagi yang pakai gerobak, lokasinya pindah ke gang (masih keliatan dari jalan utama), dari depan Hotel Mutiara, jalan ke arah mall. Pas datang sekitar jam 10, masih tutup katanya buka jam 4 sore. Pas jalan dari depan Hotel Mutiara ke lokasi gerobak lumpia, 2x dihadang ibu-ibu yang minta duit tapi maksa. Sisi jalan seberang yg ada outlet lumpia pake rak kaca sepertinya lebih aman.

2021 lama, udah nunggu sejam dan akhirnya batal karena ternyata antrian saya dilewatin terus, yang diutamakan yang pesan banyak. 9.30 datang ke sana, dan catat nama dan pesanan (kotak kecil, isi 5) di antrian. pas nanya kapan katanya sekitar setengah jam, jadi saya bilang nanti saya balik lagi kesitu 20-25 menit untuk keperluan lain karena semua tempat duduk full. eh langsung dibilang sama ibu-ibu yang bawa besek (sambil agak teriak) kalo nanti bakal dilewat kalo ga ada di tempat pas dipanggil padahal udah ngerti juga. 20 menit kemudian balik kesini, trus ngecek dan ternyata belum nyampe antrian. setengah jam lagi saya cek, dibilang batch berikutnya. posisi kertas yang ada nama saya ada di paling belakang. hampir setengah jam kemudian, saya cek lagi dan belum kelar juga, trus posisi kertas saya udah digeser ke 2 dari belakang. di kertas paling belakang isinya deretan pesenan orang dengan jumlah banyak. yaudah, batalin aja. beberapa orang lain yang nunggu kelamaan juga akhirnya batalin pesanan. makan di tempat agak pr karena areanya juga jalan umum, dan sudah pasti panas kena matahari.

why it's so long: pegawai ada 5-6, tapi kerja tidak terorganisir wajan penggorengan hanya 1. setelah lumpia matang, staf yang goreng ikut masukin lumpia ke besek. setelah selesai baru nambah minyak ke wajan karena pasti terserap oleh lumpia, dan nunggu minyak panas baru bisa goreng lagi. antrian tidak jelas. selesai lumpia diisi di besek, hanya 2-3 nama yang dipanggil dan ternyata itu yang pesen banyak.

akses: jika datang dengan motor, di antara lumpia samijaya dan ria busana ada parkiran. bisa juga parkir di mall malioboro, kemudian jalan kaki. di depan hotel mutiara ada halte bus, tapi kayaknya busnya jarang lewat juga, lebih cepet naik gojek/grab supaya tidak pusing...