I can say that Indonesia is a 'heaven for food lovers. You can find any kind of food from local and international dishes. But when you're traveling to Indonesia, do not waste your money for anything except the taste of local food. Indonesian food can be taken to be an interesting experience. The diversity of the country offers you a taste of variety of foods. All ethnic groups in Indonesia, uses a rich country full of spices, but each of their own combinations and tastes: spicy, sweet, sour and hot.
Padang cuisine (or calls they Masakan Padang, Indonesia) is probably the most popular in all parts of the country. Padang or Minangkabau is the capital of West Sumatra. Local specialties are very delicious and you can find restaurants in each region in Indonesia. Padang / Minang restaurants are easily identifiable by the basins of food stacked carefully in their windows. What makes it unique is the way that serve food. When it comes to the restaurant (and especially the big ones), and the waiter will come to you with a range of dishes, all deftly balanced in his left arm, and will put food on the table in a kind of Asian buffet. You can then choose the food that you want to eat ... Will bring you a different kind of stewed meat dishes, fish, eggs, chicken and curry.
Allocate the famous mouth-watering of Padang is the Rendang Sapi, and spices, covered dish cooked meat dry for a long time in coconut milk. But they have some delicious meals such as Balado Dendeng - it's made with beef and hot pepper sauce Gulai Pakis Daun - Tips for ferns cooked with coconut milk or red snapper curry. But be aware, some very hot Padang dishes. To cook the 300 grams of the pepper to 1 kg of meat is not unusual. If you love spicy food, it's definitely for you. Otherwise, you do not need to worry, they are usually hot pepper sauce, or as he calls for the Indonesian Sambal ', separately and use spices or dips.
Manado, North Sulawesi is an island largely agricultural with coffee, coconut, nutmeg and cloves are big money earners. Indonesians believe that the other Minahasan food must be plastered with a paste pepper to taste. Days of specialization, such as PCR Rica (grilled chicken) are usually very hot. Applied other traditional folk Bobur Manado - rice porridge with a different type of spices and side dishes such as shredded chicken, sweet soy sauce, dried anchovies, fried shallots and chopped peppers of course.
If you like the food less spicy, and some areas in Java obtained. For example, Jakarta food tastes sweet because each dish seems to include the palm sugar and sweet soy sauce (kecap Manis). Inspired Semur - Dutch smothered beef with Chinese Indonesian sweet soy sauce, nutmeg and cloves - is one of the specialties. Been adapted to other, more specialized, such as fried rice (Nasi Goreng), and fried noodles (Bakmi Goreng) originated from China, but then to the tastes of Indonesia to become one of the disciplines, including Indonesia, famous. Can be found on only Nasi Goreng Goreng Bakmi and in almost every restaurant across the country.
In Yogjakarta, Central Java, and dishes the model is the Nasi Gudeg, made of young jack fruit and boiled eggs stewed in coconut milk with a blend of spices, so the taste is sweet; days Goreng Kalasan - local chickens free range, organic stewed in spices (coriander and garlic and candlenut coconut water), then fried and served with salad and Sambal crude.
When traveling to East Java, Surabaya, about, you will find another type of traditional food. Sate Madura, and satay chicken from Madura (East Java Island) is one of the others that are really popular. In fact it's one of the most popular dishes in all parts of Asia. Then there is also Soto days Madura - chicken soup, Rawon - beef broth delicious contains color black because it makes Kluwak (Pangium edule), walnuts, and Rujak Cingur - a mixture of vegetable salad raw and boiled, served with the snout of beef boiled (lentho made cingur) and poured with sauce made from peanuts and dried chili pepper paste and shrimp (petis udang), Lontong Balap - dish healthy vegetarian containing rice-ROM (lontong), tofu fried, soy red, bean sprouts, soybeans, sweet sauce and Campur Ngai Tahu - beef soup mixed with fresh vegetables, cassava cake, tofu and serve a mix of dried shrimp paste (petis udang), pepper and garlic.
Bali as the most visited place in Indonesia is full of five-star hotels and villas throughout the region, but this does not mean that air power alone international food. There are two types of disciplines worn, and Papi Guling Betutu Bebek. Papi Guling is a pig roast with the breast skin crispy. Most Indonesians do not eat pork, and Muslims in particular. But here, is to eat pork because most of the Balinese Hindus, and they do not eat beef. Bebek Betutu sensitivity is a duck, which is marinated and birds with many different herbs and spices, wrapped in banana leaves and then baked on low heat. You can also try to kind of Balinese satay or call bright Willett, are made from fish, minced meat with coconut grated fresh shrimp paste, garlic and pepper and leave the lemon and salt to compose a sticky, mix the dough and then like wrapped around the use of spears of fresh lemon and skewers, and cook on the fire coming from the coconut shells instead of coal. It is served with any sauce, mild or peppery.
And can travel all over Indonesia to be a real challenge to the curiosity of your kitchen. Country was not just view the beauty, but it will also spoil your craving for delicious food. If you want to taste something different, then Indonesia is the right place. As the nation with more than 17.000 islands, Indonesia is the heaven of good food that will awake all your senses.
Sabtu, 03 April 2010
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