"Inside the badak (hippopotamus) we put grated coconut soaked in palm sugar. It is very delicious...can get us addicted. When I make (badak berendam, made with glutinous rice flour) I put lots of coconut inside and eat it non-stop (that I might become as big as hippo)”.
The sense of humour of the young couple from Japan - Jimmy and IChang - as they devour the famous traditional dessert badak berendam’(literally translated as soaking hippo), has endeared them to their viewers on their YouTube channel (iChang), which has amassed over 132,000 subscribers.