the word “Babon” not refers to Baboon, the African old world monkey. But it refers to a specific domesticated Chicken. So Soto babon itself just an another Chicken soup. read more
Soto tangkar, which today is a meat soup, was mostly made from the broth of goat rib-cage bones (Betawi:tangkar) in the past because meat was expensive, or the common population of Batavia were too poor to afford some meat back then. read more