What food for the people of Indonesia? Eating is the favorite occupation of the Indonesians. When you get together - no matter what the occasion, to eat. If you come to somewhere to eat. If one has nothing to do, eat.
Since a large proportion of the population lives below the poverty line, it is very important to have something in the stomach. Food is therefore the first priority over all other pleasures. In addition, many Indonesians are still working as farmers, and it is important aufzunemhen again quickly, the energy you lost in the hard work on the field. Previously, such work in any country in the world, many more people in agriculture today, and so is this Accustomed nature of the permanent, rich food in the daily culture passed and still remained there. Even if one has a nice office job, eating will always be.
would like to better understand the importance of food I give this example: The word means the same kendut healthy and Wampe ...
Especially as a guest you have a hard time, because guests must in principle ALWAYS eat as much as possible. So it came in the first weeks is not uncommon that I totally gorged on my bed was on the one hand more constraints Eating escape and the other to me
first to recover. Even now, when my host parents, I no longer view long ago as a guest, my host mother, appears often times in a corner up and held out a huge portion, with the words: Haru dihabiskan - It must be eaten. Refuse, as always, beyond the pale, and would be considered insulting. I must also say that the Indonesian cuisine very interesting and diverse is. Fortunately, my host mother to cook very well. There are so many different specialties and other dishes to me that I probably really need the whole year would be to try everything. So far it has
in this respect out to be a problem that I live in a Muslim family. It matters only on the table, what is halal . The opposite of halal is haram, and haram for example pork and alcohol, so all the things that can not eat a devout Muslim. I've read once interest sake, what criteria decided is what is halal and what is not. The rules are quite complex, and in many animals is also not entirely clear whether one should eat them or not. Terrestrial animals without visible external ears, for example haram, so you may (really) eat no snakes or geckos. This restriction in the diet of course I miss some things but hopefully I can catch up somehow.
One of the other volunteers, lives in a Chinese Christian family and with her is also often times the exotic to the table just like snake, frog or pig brain.
Recently I am from a nap woke up and had the strong smell of roasting meat in the nose. I thought it was really cool, crispy bacon and saw quite a few strips in addition to a scrambled egg on my plate in front of me until I thought, that yes may be not at all ...
In Indonesia, eating rice three times a day. In every house where I was before, there is a special rice cooker, in which all day long hot rice for Verfügug stands. It is a mystery to me how he can hold all day long fresh, but somehow the device seems to be built accordingly, and the rice still tastes like after 5 hours so soon after the filling.
is given it is mostly a selection of fried dishes such as Krupuk (known in Germany by the Chinese as shrimp chips, you can do it but also of rice and chicken) or temperature (a kind of bolt from soy beans, very tasty) but also meat (often in a sauce) and vegetables.
majority of cases, in an Indonesian cuisine at least five different supplements throughout the day on the table so everyone can use whenever he wants. Rice is always there. Concerns about salmonella or bacteria-like form which, when food is open around seems to have none here. Do you have to but apparently not, so far I'm finally not even been sick.
When Indonesians get no rice to a meal is, for them this as a missed meal, no matter whether they have eaten fruit or other. They feel tired until after they have eaten their rice.
What I particularly like the diversity here in fruits. I have never seen a larger selection of fresh fruit than here in Indonesia. Half of them I've never seen before, let alone tried. It often happens that I just sit on the terrace (with great views of the endless rice fields and a huge mountain) and I gleefully dedicate a big bowl of papaya and mango, which my host mother previously (dirt cheap) bought on the market. Right now I'm eating way too casually Papaya:)
As for the local taste buds: Indonesians love the Extreme! Many things are totally sugared or very sharp. Sweet is not just sweet but often simply a block of sugar, you have to watch out for drinks. Often, one also finds sweetness in food, where one would expect little - for example, spring rolls or with soybeans. Care must also be in restaurants so on, to order drinks without sugar, because sugar is everywhere inside the skin, where it was possible (or not at all for us going). Particularly coffee was for me at the beginning of a shock. In Germany, I always drink my coffee without sugar and milk. This coffee is ALWAYS with lots of sugar and drink it with milk NIE. Milk is served very rare here anyway. Exactly the opposite of what I'm used to.
Another feature in Indonesia, the warungs . warungs are food stalls on the roadsides. Here is offered by sweet snacks to full dinner all that is absent from the local fields and kitchens. That in itself it is Warung in number calculating models. Plays just behind, on the scooter strapped on it, sometimes integrated into a bike (similar as in a rickshaw) and sometimes as a large car with a tarpaulin and seats.
Eating the warungs usually looks very interesting and delicious. However, I have my doubts in terms of Hygene. The food is often around all day at high temperatures for presentation in a kind of showcase - some of it raw. Especially with raw meat (dead chicken at a time) can get a quick doubt the Hygene. In addition, can also be like flies on the food down.
Despite all that I love to eat in warungs ! Although one every tourist and every tourist guide warned from the beginning I had no great Concerns have and just start eating, I also am not a tourist;) The food has always been very tasty and it is also especially Dirt cheap! I get such a large portion of rice with a special type of Tempe (Tempe Kering ) and some chicken for about 30 € cents. For me, right in front of the school is sold in the break always delicious Bakso , a soup with meat balls made from chicken, the portion for less than 10 cents! I have now eaten dozens of times in such warungs and was not even sick. But I must admit that I am the only one so far of all the volunteers who have was not sick ...
A few days ago was killed in my yard and a cow from the neighborhood, the next entry I will upload some pictures.
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