Holiday Ayo - Seblak is a food that is loved by young people because of its savory and spicy taste that challenges the tongue, and the price is relatively cheap. This typical Sundanese food is made from boiled crackers , with various toppings such as eggs, chicken feet, sausages and vegetables. In one bowl seblak generally contains boiled crackers and some toppings which are then combined with a sauce that is seasoned with kencur, garlic and chili peppers.

Summarized from various sources, long before seblak from Sunda was popular, in the Sumpiuh area, Central Java, there was a similar food called ' kerupuk godog' which means boiled  crackers.

source: Liputan6

Meanwhile, seblak comes from the Sundanese language 'segak' or 'nyegak' which means to sting. It is not certain how Sundanese seblak was created for the first time and how popular it is now. When it appeared is uncertain, several sources say seblak sparked in the 2000s. But there are also those who say seblak has existed since the 1900s, as well as in the 1940s.

Seblak is not a legendary type of food or food that has been around for a long time. In historical records, seblak does not include any ancient cooking recipe records. Including similar foods such as boiled crackers, or spicy sauce with kencur seasoning.

This shows that seblak emerges from the creativity of the Sundanese people, especially in creating food that attracts the interest of many people. This is also driven by the abundant production of tapioca in West Java Province. So that many people use this material to make food such as aci crackers , aci meatballs, cireng, and cilok which are then put into the seblak topping.

source: Tokopedia

However, several sources say the origin of seblak stems from the abundant supply of crackers in Bandung at that time, so they were left too long and not fried. Old crackers won't be as good as new crackers when fried. The old crackers were hard to chew because they were tough and they didn't taste as good as they did when they were new. In the end, the old crackers were just thrown away by people.

Increasingly, people think that they are wasting too many crackers which is tantamount to wasting food. From these problems, an attempt was made to process old crackers so they could be eaten. Then it sparked boiling crackers which were again cooked with a spicy sauce seasoned with kencur. Since then, seblak was born which is popular until now.

source: Suara Jabar

Currently seblak variants have developed, with various types of toppings and flavors. The first seblak that became popular was seblak wet, with various variants such as seblak egg, seblak macaroni, seblak claw, seblak chicken bones, seblak wet noodles, seblak meatball, seblak basreng, seblak batagor, seblak aci, seblak kwetiau, seblak dumplings, seblak kikil. and there are many other wet seblak variants.