Workers doing work making grass jelly as a base for the Ramadan Iftar drink in Palembang on April 14, 2021. demand is higher than last year. Grass jelly production this year is increased even more to fulfill customer orders. The raw material for grass jelly is deliberately ordered from the island of Java. Cooked using a large stove.
The mixture is grass jelly leaves and special sago, then cook for about 3 hours. Apart from producing grass jelly, there is also dawet processed with suji leaves and rice. Every day it can produce more than 300 buckets of dawet with a selling price of 100 thousand rupiah. Here it also produces dawet. with the same customer, there are two variants of the drink, namely dawet and black grass jelly
The money obtained from this type of selling dawet is very large, each day earning approximately 30 million rupiah.
So of the two types of dishes that are produced daily, the turnover reaches approximately 40 million rupiah, the month of Ramadan is eagerly awaited by takjil processing agents.