Burjo

Burjo has become a lifestyle for most of students in Jogjakarta. Beside burjo provide cheap food and beverage that fit with student income, burjo also open 24 hours so it enables its customer to have some food anytime they want. It’s very useful for student with full of activity in day or even night.

Burjo known with its Sudanese owner, although it’s food is not Sudanese food. People believe that there is a difference between Sundance cooks and Javanese cooks, Sudanese cook seems like specialized for cook burjo foods like nasi sarden or nasi telor.

Burjo have some special menus that available in every burjo in Jogjakarta. Indomie telor is the most famous food in burjo. It’s ordinary instant noodle that cooked with egg for its addition. Second is nasi goreng. Nasi goreng is like ordinary nasi goreng as well, but with hand of Sudanese cook its taste different. Nasi sarden also available in every burjo. It contains rice, mackerel fish, and some vegetables. And the symbol of burjo is burjo food itself; burjo is abbreviation from bubur kacang ijo. It’s mixed of green bean and red rice with coconut milk. And all the food is under 10.000 rupiah.

Hygiene issue becomes major problem that many people talks about. From its kitchen that looks dirty and doubtful food freshness because it’s open 24 hours to unhealthy ingredients. It’s equal with price so that cheap makes customer have reason to choose. However, although they know the bad of eating in burjo people still trust burjo to kill their hunger.

Finally, burjo is a total solution for students who have limited income. But eating burjo too often is not good for our body.