Slawi is the capital city of the Tegal regency of the province of Central Java, Indonesia. Slawi is known for the production of a particularly fragrant black tea and the tea drinking culture known as Moci. Tegal, commonly known as Tegal Foods is a Heinz company based in New Zealand. ... Map of Central Java province within Indonesia Central Java (Indonesian: Jawa Tengah) is a province of Indonesia. ... Tea leaves in a Chinese gaiwan. ...

Geography

Unusually for a tea producing area, Slawi has a warm climate with a gently contoured slope.

Slawi is located near the north coast of Java in the province of Central Java. It is surrounded by the Banjaran Adiwerna sub-district to the north, the Pangkah sub-district to the east, the Balapulang sub-district to the south and the Jatibarang sub-district (located in the administrative area of Kabupaten Brebes) to the West. Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ...

Society and culture

The majority of citizens work as farmers, in the metal industry, the public service, or in a variety of home industries, including teak furniture-making and weaving sarongs.

As a result of high local unemployment, many young people leave the area after high school, heading for larger urban centres such as Jakarta. Their financial remittances are an important source of income for the area. Migrants generally return to Slawi for the Muslim festival of Idul Fitri. Motto: Jaya Raya (Indonesian): Prosper and Great Founded 22 June 1527 Governor Sutiyoso Area 661. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian: مسلمان) is an adherent of Islam. ... Eid ul-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر), often abbreviated as simply Eid, is an Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. ...

Local crafts include traditional forms of batik and metal working, and Wayang Kulit puppet shows are also performed. A batik painting depicting two Indian women. ... Wayang is the Indonesian term for puppet, and the term refers to any and all of the numerous varieties of puppetry found in the archipelago. ...

The local language of the area is Javanese, spoken with a distinctive regional accent. Javanese is a term used to describe a native of the Indonesian island of Java. ...

The area's cuisine includes Tahu Aci, fried tofu with a flour topping, Sega Lengko, made of cooked rice mixed with fermented soybean cake pieces, tofu, tauge, nuts, chilli, and prawn crackers, as well as a local soup and local version of sate. There are many local food stalls, called Warteg, which offer a daily menu at economical prices. Tofu, sometimes also called doufu (often in Chinese recipes) or bean curd (literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. ... NUTS is an acronym, meaning: Neils Unix Talk Server Nuclear Utilization Target Selection -- counterpart to MAD Nuclear Use Theorists (More properly formatted NUTs) Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics New Ulm Trebuchet Society (Minnesota) See also: NUT This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... The chile pepper, chili pepper, or chilli pepper, or simply chile, is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family, Solanaceae. ... Freshly made prawn crackers A prawn cracker, also called a shrimp chip, shrimp cracker or similar combination, is a cracker made mostly from shrimp and flour, usually tapioca or potato flour. ... Grilled beef satay Satay (also written saté) is a dish that may have originated in Sumatra or Java in Indonesia but is popular in many southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. ...

The most distinctive culinary tradition is that of Moci, the communal consumption of the local fragrant tea. A clay teapot is filled with dry leaf tea and hot water. The tea is then poured into a clay cup with raw sugar. The tea is not stirred, and so becomes sweeter as the cup is emptied, encouraging continuous refills. Tea leaves in a Chinese gaiwan. ... Magnified crystals of refined sugar In general use, non-scientists take sugar to mean sucrose, also called table sugar or saccharose, a white crystalline solid disaccharide. ...

Moci is frequently accompanied by Mendoan, a moist fermented soybean cake fried with a flour layer, often eaten with chilli sauce.

Local areas of interest

There are several beaches within easy reach of Slawi, as well as Guci, an area of waterfalls, gardens, and public hot springs at the foot of Slamet Mountain, approximately 27km south of Slawi. In addition, nearby Alun Alun Kabupaten Slawi is a garden with a large fountain that is popular on Sundays.

In the city itself, there are the old and new markets, the Singa and Rama theatres, as well as the historical Pankah Sugar Factory, and the 4th Slawi Primary School, both of which are part of the Dutch Colonial inheritance of the city.