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  • The drive into the mountains is long and arduous.

  • So Arde suggests we stop for a bite along the way.

  • Fortunately, in Sumatra, street food is a way of life.

  • On almost every corner, vendors hock freshly made snacks from

  • pushcarts or hole-in-the-wall shacks,

  • like this one selling bika, a tea cake made from coconut.

  • What is this?

  • Really good.

  • It's everyone's favorite.

  • Everyone's favorite. Hello.

  • - Hello. - Hi.

  • Nice to meet you.

  • My goodness.

  • That incredible smell, what is that?

  • They cook the cinnamon wood.

  • Cinnamon wood.

  • So this is bika.

  • Bika.

  • It's like a cookie, a--

  • Cake.

  • Small cake.

  • So it's almost like an Indonesian macaroon.

  • Well, pretty much like that.

  • So that's a banana leaf underneath there.

  • Yeah.

  • Wow.

  • And then see how they close it.

  • Oh, OK.

  • Put the pot back on, and it bakes it.

  • Want to try?

  • OK. Let me take that.

  • OK.

  • Thank you.

  • Pew.

  • Oh.

  • No, no, no, no, no. Here.

  • Damn.

  • It's like a bird [bleep] all over my windscreen.

  • Here we go.

  • OK.

  • Oh, no.

  • [laughs]

  • Ah, yes.

  • Oh.

  • [bleep] Oh, I'm sorry.

  • It hit the side of the pot. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • So can I have a look at these ones that are cooked?

  • Let me get the tongs. Here we go.

  • [laughs]

  • Oh, sorry.

  • [bleep]

  • See how they--

  • OK, got you.

  • How many bika do you make a day?

  • [speaking indonesian]

  • 2,000.

  • 2,000.

  • 2,000 bika.

  • A week.

  • - No, a day. - A day.

  • - Every day. - Every day.

  • Stop it, smartass.

  • [laughs]

  • [laughs]

  • They make it look so easy.

  • They're angling up to eight beautiful biscuits in there.

  • Now I couldn't even get one, so yeah.

  • I mean, practice makes perfect, but how many

  • coconuts do you want to screw?

  • This is like typical from this area only.

  • And people normally eat this while

  • having coffee in the afternoon, like having a tea time.

  • Mm-hmm.

  • Mm-hmm.

  • Excellent. Thank you so much.

  • - Thank you so much. - [speaking indonesian]

  • - Oh, my lord. - [speaking indonesian]

  • [speaking indonesian]

  • Yeah.

  • My apology for screwing so many up.

  • 2,000 a day.

The drive into the mountains is long and arduous.

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