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mother used to pack various kind of Lauw breads Lauw Bakery cart was heard from afar. Fatma
for her and her sisters before they went to school. rushed outside of her house and waved at the
“I used to have roti gambang that is brown, seller, a sign often used to indicate she wanted to
oval-shaped, sprinkled with sesame seeds and buy the breads. Mang Yayat came to approach
flavoured with cinnamon,” she recalled. her with a bright smile on his face. He, who comes
from Bogor, sell Lauw breads in many variants
She then told JaKita that roti gambang has been of flavour: chocolate, pineapple, srikaya, milk
known by the Betawinese since years ago. They cream, peanut butter, sweet cheese, banana
often bring the bread as favour when visiting cheese and banana chocolate. Also plain loaf
families or sick relatives. She remembered her and doughnuts with meises (sprinkles). Not
uncle who live in Condet, East Jakarta, who likes to forget, the legendary roti gambang that is
to ask her to bring roti gambang whenever he everyone’s favourite.
gets sick. “He was very happy whenever I
got him the roti gambang,” she said. With a Lauw Bakery cart from his uncle,
Mang Yayat has been selling Lauw
According to Fatma, the Bakery for 20 years. “I began selling
taste of roti gambang Lauw breads from when I was a
never changes, which teenager until today, when I
keeps her consuming already have three kids,” said
the brown bread. Only Mang Yayat. He believes there
the packaging of it are still many people who
that changes: today, love Lauw Bakery. Especially
roti gambang are because the breads are in
usually wrapped in affordable prices, it suits for
plastic. “Previously it lower-middle class people.
was wrapped with white All of the sweet-flavoured
paper bag,” said Fatma. breads are Rp8,000 and the
plain loaf is Rp14,000.
Despite that, she is thankful
the old bakery is still existed Mang Yayat usually starts to sell
until today. As a fan of Lauw the bread from 5 PM until 9 PM, and
Bakery, she doesn’t get any difficulty he always ensure all of the breads are
in getting the favourite bakery. “Every evening, sold. He believes that the unchanged taste of
vendor of Lauw Bakery always rides the cart to Lauw Bakery is what keeps the customers to buy
my neighbourhood,” she told JaKita. them. “It is guaranteed that the taste of Lauw
breads had never changed,” said Mang Yayat,
On another note, she is amazed in the way Lauw promoting his goods.
never changed the uniqueness in selling the
bread. Mang Yayat, one of the Lauw Bakery sellers He, who turns 40 this year, said he will not try to
who always come to her neighbourhood to sell get another job. Especially during this testing
the bread, has the cart that never changes from times of COVID-19 pandemic. This Sundanese
as long as she remembers: the pedicab-like cart man is always grateful for his job, which makes
is dominated with blue and white colour, with a him able to make money for his family. He was
wooden board that says “Roti Lauw” on it. thankful that because of Lauw Bakery, he could
send his kids to graduate high schools.
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