The Lalapan Food PakKAT That People Padangsidimpuan City Are Looking For in The Month Of Ramadan
In every month of Ramadan, pakkat or rattan shoots are never absent as a food menu for some people in Padangsidimpuan City. Pakkat traders are very easy to find on the side of this downtown causeway. Seasonal traders every Ramadan will appear all over the city.
Where!! Pakkat traders who regularly sell will peddle their wares on the roadside. There are those who sell around the Sangkumpal Bonag market, around Jalan Thamrin, as well as at certain road points in Padangsidimpuan City.
For the size of the pack that is sold, approximately one meter is burned before being sold. When the buyer orders the seller to peel the skin of the pakkat and cut it into small pieces measuring 3-5 cm by removing the hard part.
For pakkat traders in this month of Ramadan, it is a land of sustenance for them for the purposes of Eid later, and for one pack of pakkat they sell for Rp. 10.000 per stick. Each pack of pakkat they want to sell, they bring from home as many as 150-200 sticks, they sell it every day during the month of Ramadan.
Previously, Pakkat sold was usually obtained from pakkat seekers in Simarpinggan, South Angkola sub-district, South Tapanuli.
There are two types of pakkat that are sold, namely pakkat raja or young rattan from the maldo type or raw materials used as rattan chair poles. Meanwhile, the small packs are obtained from young stems of ordinary rattan.
For those of you who don't have an appetite, eating pakkat is the right solution. So don't be surprised if in the month of Ramadan as it is today, many people in Padangsidimpuan City are interested in Pakkat. 😄