The Food Of Hell From Indonesia

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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 is 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 other secondary ingridients such as  shrimp paste, fish sauce, garlic, ginger, shallot, scallion, palm sugar, lime juice, and rice vinegar or other vinegars. 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. Various recipes of sambals usually are served as hot and spicy condiments for dishes, such as lalab (raw vegetables), ikan bakar(grilled fish), ikan goreng (fried fish), ayam goreng (fried chicken), ayam penyet (smashed chicken), iga penyet (ribs) and various sotosoup.

Infamous among tourists for its spiciness, many tourists avoid it. However, some of them are challenged and try to eat 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.

Incorrect information of the text:

Sambal is made by grinding ‘cabai’ or chili, along with several complements such as onion, cherry, tomato, ‘terasi’, sugar, and salt.

As i know, sambal is made of 'tomato cherry', not cherry. But, there is spicy cherry sauce that made of cherry in other country.

The ingredients are grinded using traditional tool made usually from wood or plastic.
The material of 'ulekan' (traditional mortar/grinder from Indonesia) is stone or wood.

Infamous among tourists for its spiciness, many tourists avoid it.
Tourists are curious on it.

Though super spicy, locals eat it in almost daily basis as their main meal.
Local people eat it in daily as a sauce, not as a main meal.

The Food Of Hell From Indonesia

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Oleh Fawaz Amajida

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