page_title: Bakso
section_title: Variations
hierarchical_section_title: Bakso / Variations
caption_attribution_description: Bahasa Indonesia: Ini adalah salah satu makanan khas Indonesia yang bernama Bakso. Rasanya yang enak membuat masyarakat menyukainya dan gemar memakannya.
context_page_description: Bakso or baso is an Indonesian meatball, or a meat paste made from beef surimi. Its texture is similar to the Chinese beef ball, fish ball, or pork ball. The word bakso may refer to a single meatball or the complete dish of meatball soup. Mie bakso refers to bakso served with yellow noodles and rice vermicelli, while bakso kuah refers to bakso soup served without noodles.
  Bakso can be found all across Indonesia, from street vendors to high-class restaurants. Along with soto, satay, and siomay, bakso is one of the most popular street foods in Indonesia. Today, various types of ready-to-cook bakso are also available as frozen foods sold in supermarkets in Indonesia.
context_section_description: Indonesia has developed numerous bakso variants, usually differing in shape, size, texture, ingredients, and fillings.
  Bakso aci: meatball with more tapioca content
  Bakso ayam: chicken bakso
  Bakso babi: pork meatball
  Bakso bakar: grilled and skewered bakso, prepared in a similar fashion to satay
  Bakso beranak: big meatball filled with small meatballs
  Bakso bola tenis tennis ball-sized bakso, either filled with hard boiled egg as bakso telur or filled with tetelan which includes pieces of spare beef meat and fat or urat (tendon).
  Bakso cuanki: a famous bakso in Bandung, West Java
  Bakso gepeng: flat beef bakso, it usually has finer and more homogenous texture
  Bakso goreng: fried bakso with a rather hard texture, usually consumed solely as a snack or mixed in one bowl as part of bakso Malang or bakso cuanki
  Bakso ikan: fish bakso (fish ball)
  Bakso keju: a modern variant of bakso, filled with either cheddar or mozarella cheese
  Bakso kotak: cube-shaped bakso
  Bakso Malang: bakso dish from the city of Malang in East Java; complete with noodles, tofu, siomay, and fried wontons
  Bakso mercon: lit. "fire cracker bakso", refer to an extra hot and spicy bakso filled with sambal made of chilli pepper and birds eye chili pepper
  Bakso tahu: bakso meat dough filled into tofu
  Bakso telur: a tennis ball-sized bakso with hard boiled chicken egg wrapped inside
  Bakso udang: shrimp bakso with a slightly pink color
  Bakso urat: bakso filled with tendons and coarse meat
caption: Bakso beranak, small baksos inside a bigger bakso.
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