The salted fried frogs skin has a unique taste incomparable with other types of chips.

Frog-cooking is ubiquitous in Purwodadi, Grobogan Regency, Central Java, where it is the local delicacy.

[7][2] Frog leg cooking also can be found in the town of Jatiwangi, Majalengka Regency, West Java.

The mainstream Islamic madhhab (schools) of Safii, Hanafi, and Hanbali strictly forbid the consumption of frog.

Moreover, in Java a variant of swikee delicacy uses frog eggs that mostly collected from the wild and cooked it in banana leaf as pepes.

Conservationists have warned that frogs could be going the same way as the cod — gastronomic demand is depleting regional populations to the point of no return.

The population of amphibians is threatened and declining globally due to habitat degradation, environmental destruction, and pollution.