Located in the Salemba area, Jamu Bukti Mentjos offers a variety of herbal ingredients to maintain a healthy body. Just state your complaint. Headaches, coughs, stomach ulcers, back pain, or if you are healthy, maybe you just want to maintain stamina.

With more than 50 kinds of traditional concoctions, Jamu Bukti Mentjos offers the right ingredients for your needs.

The shop is not very big. The dominant brown color of the wooden furniture combined with black iron with the old design of this shop makes us feel as if we are transported to the past. There were small tables surrounded by three or four chairs on the east side of the tavern. Also a long table with an arrangement of chairs like a bar on the west side.

The center of this shop is the jars of various concoctions located in the center of the bar-like table. The place where the employees deftly take the herbal powders to be brewed, before being handed out to the customer. Of course, apart from the vintage-style interior, what is so distinctive about this shop is the aroma. A blend of various rhizome powders and herbal ingredients.

Concoction for all complaints

Before ordering, you can first read the list of the shop's herbal medicine menus, which are numbered from 1 to 40's. It contains the name of the herbal medicine and its function. Some of them are coughing winds to treat colds accompanied by coughs, incantation of the intestines for heartburn and frequent bowel movements, aiming for wind for various colds, chili puyang for aches and pains, digging Putri for women's health, or selokarang for throat disorders.

Because each herbal medicine contains a different composition, the taste is also different. However, what is dominant is the astringent or bitter taste with varying intensities. There are also those that taste a little spicy, such as chili puyang. The texture is thick, we can feel the granules of the herbal powder when we drink it. Each order of herbal brew will also be accompanied by a tamba (read: tombo) in the form of a warm, sweet ginger drink. Melts the bitter taste of herbs on the tongue.

In addition to herbal medicine, the Bukti Mentjos shop also sells various types of porridge or jenang, such as jali porridge, candil porridge, green bean porridge, and chicken porridge. These snacks are delicious eaten with fresh herbs, such as kencur rice or sour turmeric which are also provided at this shop.

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