Indonesian Food or Food in Indonesia

The Tongue!

(image courtesy of Fear Factor)

posted by Learn @ 18:52 0 comments

We Dont Fear The Internal Organs

Here's a quick one.

Indonesians does not fear the internal organ as a food. We often wonder why 'Fear Factor' often potrays such and such as a fearful food.

Just last week most Indonesians (all Moslems in the world) 'celebrate' Iedul Adha. Which is basically a holy sacrificing day.

On that day we slaughter mature male cattle, goat, lamb or camel. We give out almost all of the meat to the poor.

(Just a note, the sacrifice is not to give the animal to God, it's simply proving one's faith by sharing one's welath with others. The history is quite long and i promised this would be a quick post).

In Indonesia, what's left of the slaughtered beast is usually taken and processed as food. This would include intestines, stomach, heart, liver, 'balls', eyes, face meat, tongue and (most delicious of all) the brain!

We don't fear any of it. That's for sure.

But last couple of days, i grew tired of eating all that 'other than meat'. I've eaten the snout, legs and feet, the cattle's eyes and this morning i had 'fried cattle brain for breakfast'.

I mean, c'mon, it's already three days since the Iedul Adha. Isn't there any other food?

(Well in my family's case, i guess i should be grateful. And i am grateful, of course. We're having a serious financial crisis anyway, and free-meat is a blessing for sure)

I'm oficially stuffed by red meat and 'other body parts'. :D

posted by Learn @ 18:40 1 comments

Yummy Bunny

Look at that.. delicious huh?
(Image courtesy of Wikipedia)

posted by Learn @ 13:42 0 comments

Diced The Bunny, Grill'em Good!

I'm not sure about the custom ef eating rabbit in other countries. I'm sure there are enough rabbit-based cuisine in the world, so not to consider rabbit an exotic food.

Well in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta, eating rabbit/hare (or any of the Lagomorpha family for that matters) is not common. Young girls often found the pratice of eating 'cute, fuzzy-wuzzy, wabbit' a barbaric act.

Personaly, i think it's ridiculous. Rabbit is consider Halal and it have meat. Why resist the meat? Why i ask you, why!? (And came the squeaky little voice saying.. but they're so cuute little animals). Bah Humbug!

Last week i eat a particularly delicious Rabbit Satay. This dish is a specialty from East Java. The Bunny meat is treated as any satay meat (cleanly diced) and then it's threaded onto skewers and grilled over a flame.

The satay is served on a bed of a generous amount of shredded cabbage and shallots. Under the haystack-like layer is a pool of soysauce (the sweeteened kind) and some more sliced shallots with several slices of chilli pepper.

Sprinkled on top of the skewed-meat are grains of pepper (as in salt and pepper).

In my opinion, it's pretty delicious. And for just over a dollar, the dish is worth it. Yummy bunny! :p

posted by Learn @ 13:17 0 comments

GIve Us Rice and Give Us Peace

Well, since i've decided on writing a blog about 'food, eat and indonesia', i might as well talk about Rice, right!? Because, you see, rice is the main diet of Indonesians.

The saying goes in Indonesia, you haven't eaten unless you've eaten nasi (steamed rice). It is often the case with Javanese than with any other.

The saying goes, you can serve a Javanese a plateful of bread, with soup and lambchops, fried chicken, french fries and a set of Big Mac © if you will, and he would not say he have eaten. Until he have servings of steamed rice.

That's the classic view anyway.

Anyway, rice is always on the menu for me. And i think the same goes for most of Indonesian here in Jakarta. Give Us Rice And Give Us Peace! :p

Here's a quote on why rice isn't so succesful in European countries (from Riceweb):
"Interestingly enough, medical geographers in the 16th century played an important role in limiting the adoption of rice as a major crop in the Mediterranean area. During the 16th and early 17th centuries, malaria was a major disease in southern Europe, and it was believed to be spread by the bad air (hence the origin of the name) of swampy areas. Major drainage projects were undertaken in southern Italy, and wetland rice cultivation was discouraged in some regions. In fact, it was actually forbidden on the outskirts of a number of large towns. Such measures were a significant barrier to the diffusion of rice in Europe. "

I think you people are missing on a lot. Rice is by far, still, the best food i have ever tasted (Thank God for that).

Common Rice Based Food in Indonesia:

The Food of Indonesians

So what's so interesting about Indonesian food? Well Indonesians are people who eat brain, liver, gizzard, intestines and those sticky layer of indigestible protein that layered a cow's foot.

Anyway, i'm gonna try to make my 'first attempt at an english language blog' the best i could by doing a well focused blog. That is talking about food, indonesian food, food i eat and food that came to indonesia. It's gonna be all about food and eating. Hey, that's the least i could do to satisfy my hobby! :p

Hopefuly it'll be updated frequent enough.

Many thanks to my Wife and my future child for the support. And inspiration for this blog is credited to the-fool-found-a.blogspot.com. It's one cool blog, i can tell you that.

posted by Learn @ 13:44 4 comments