Lamongan is a Regency in East Java.

Understand

Tugu bandeng lele (milkfish and airbreathing catfish monument)

Eat

Lamongan cuisine

• Asem-asem bandeng, a milkfish sour soup.
• Bandeng colo, a milkfish spicy soup.
• Jumbrek, made from rice flour, palm sugar, and coconut.
• Nasi/sego boran, boran is a container made of woven bamboo for carrying food. It is rice with various special side dishes such as empuk (fried seasoned flour), pletuk (fried spiced drained rice or peanut), also ikan sili (fire eel).
• Pecel lele, a fried ikan lele (airbreathing catfish) with special sambal with lime.
• Soto Lamongan, a typical Lamongan chicken soto.
• Tahu campur Lamongan, tofu with beef stew in petis (shrimp paste sauce)-base soup. It is different from other Indonesian tofu dishes which always use peanut sauce.
• Wingko Babat, a snack made from glutinuous rice flour and grated coconut from Babat district of Lamongan.

Drink

Try local drink, es dawet siwalan, an iced drink made from buah siwalan (tal palm/Borassus flabellifer fruit), coconut milk, and gula siwalan (liquid tal palm sugar).

Sleep

• 1 Hotel Boegenviel, Jl. Jaksa Agung Suprapto, Sarirejo, Sukorejo (Next to Muhammadiyah Hospital), ☏ +62 322 315544. Check-in: 14:00, check-out: 12:00. Free Wi-Fi, parking, and breakfast. From Rp150,000. (updated Sep 2022)
• 2 Tanjung Kodok Beach Resort, Jl. Raya Paciran, Paciran, ☏ +62 322 666000. Check-in: 14:00. Seafront resort with standard rooms & villas, a pool, tennis court, gym, cafés, bars & restaurant. From Rp718,708. (updated Sep 2022)

Connect

The telephone area code for Lamongan is 0322.

Go next

• Bojonegoro
• Gresik
• Tuban