Bir Pletok

Went to Rumah Betawi, a Betawi cuisine restaurant, with my cousins Idut and Gendis . The place is uniquely designed with comic pictures as wallpapers.

However, the most interesting thing that I observed was the back part of the menu. It's got a history of Betawinese food and beverage. One of the so many that caught my attention is this one, The History of Bir Pletok (beer from Betawi).

It said there that Bir Pletok is the drink of Betawi warrior... and... since they had no money to buy the alcohol beer, to fulfill the needs and also style, they created this beer (which got no alcohol at all) from spices lol