Bala pendem are snacks which made from steamed java sweet potato and or cassava, and others tubers. These snacks have many shapes and many packs, and various names.

Usually, steamed sweet potato or cassava pulverize and mix with java sugar/palm sugar, colored with herbal ingredients, and formed. Sometimes, the cakes wrapped with banana leaves. Others have scrapping coconut meat. If your country use cakes/snacks to accompany tea in the morning or afternoon, bala pendem is accompanying food in Indonesia.