Selasa, 27 Februari 2018

The Food Of Hell From Indonesia

The Food Of Hell From Indonesia

1. Famous as one of the best tropical countries, Indonesia provides tons of uniqueness and excitement. Its nature, culture, and art always bring millions of tourist each year. However, this time we are going to talk about one thing, Indonesia’s cuisine, in particular Sambal.
Sambal or sambel is infamous among tourist as the food of hell for its undeniable ability to make the consumer produces tears and sweat when eating. Produced using chili as its main ingredient, sambal does indeed taste extremely spicy.
Sambal is made by grinding ‘cabai’ or chili, along with several complements such as onion, cherry,  tomato, ‘terasi’, sugar, and salt. The ingredients are grinded using traditional tool made usually from wood or plastic. The texture is smooth with a vibrant color of green and red, depending on which chili you use.
Infamous among tourists for its spiciness, many tourists avoid it. However, some of them are challenged and try to eat it. There are tons of videos on the internet where foreigners try sambal on camera, a lot of viewers enjoy and laugh seeing it. Those who dare to try usually will get stomach ache or turn very red and sweaty in the face. Though super spicy, locals eat it in almost daily basis as their main meal. Locals usually eat sambal as a side dish to main dishes such as Mie Ayam, Baso, soups, Soto, Ayam Goreng etc. Some locals even refuse to eat if there is no sambal.
Today some brands of prepared, prepacked, instant, or ready-to-use sambal are available in warung, traditional markets, supermarkets and convenience stores. Most are bottled sambal, with a few brands available in plastic or aluminum sachet packaging. Compared to traditional sambals, bottled instant sambals often have a finer texture, more homogenous content, and thicker consistency, like tomato ketchup, due to the machine-driven manufacturing process. Traditionally made sambals ground in a pestle and mortar usually have a coarse texture and consistency.

Incorrect Information
  • "Sambal is made by grinding ‘cabai’ or chili, along with several complements such as onion, cherry,  tomato, ‘terasi’, sugar, and salt." Cherry isn't an ingredient to make sambal.
  • "The ingredients are grinded using traditional tool made usually from wood or plastic." The traditional tool for grinding ingredients are made from stone.
  • " Though super spicy, locals eat it in almost daily basis as their main meal." Locals don't eat sambal as a main meal, they eat it as some kind of sauce.