It’s my son’s birthday. We didn’t plan to celebrate it. Only making tumpeng and call our family to come to our home.
Tumpeng is the way to serve rice and side dish in a cone shape. It’s Javanese tradition originally but now mostly Indonesian using tumpeng when they held some event for example wedding anniversary, birthday, independence day, etc. It usually using yellow rice or “nasi kuning”, although it can be used rice or “nasi uduk”. Tumpeng usually make for expression of gratitude to God or when we held “kenduri”. In some event which using tumpeng, we called it “tumpengan”.
There is tradition suggest that top of the cone serve for someone who is older or have higher position to respect them.
Some dishes serve with tumpeng are perkedel (made from potato), abon (meat fried until crisp), fried soy bean, egg/scramble egg, cucumber, and celery. Another variation of dishes are fried tempe, serundeng (meat spread with coconut granule), urap kacang panjang (indonesian traditional salad with coconut sauce), ikan asin or lele goreng (catfish), etc.
Taken from : "http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumpeng"
