KETUPAT BABANCI AS THE HEREDITARY BETAWI CULTURE WHICH ALMOST EXTINCT

Abstract

Food or culinary is an identity or reflect the culture of a nation. Indonesia is famous with a variety of traditional foods are favored not only local tourists who Indonesian people but also tourists from overseas. At this time, traditional food is becoming popular in various circles. The phenomenon is seen, people hunt for traditional food at week end or holidays. The most noticeable is during the fasting month, they will serve traditional specialties compared to food from foreign countries. Especially for the Betawi area, there are typical ketupat sayur foods sold in the dominant areas of many Betawi people. For the more typical of this Betawi area is Ketupat babanci and usually the type of food that is always served during the fasting month and the feast of Eid al-Fitr. In vegetables babanci is also accompanied by beef and eaten with strips of ketupat so often called ketupat babanci and usually served during the month of fasting until Lebaran. This reasearch is a qualitative research with descriptive method. Qualitative research is a preliminary study that describes the philosophy of ketupat, the history and the meaning of the word ketupat and introduces, raises and preserves Ketupat babanci as traditional Betawi food.