tropical fruit indonesia

Markets in Indonesia are full of various kinds of tropical fruit. Fruit is an important part in the Indonesian diet, either eaten directly, used as a sweet snack (like fruit ice), served a savory or spicy dishes such as salad, fried bananas, processed into chips such as chips jackfruit and banana chips.

Many kinds of fruits like Mangosteen, Rambutan, Jackfruit, Durian, and Banana, is native to Indonesia tanamam; while some kinds of fruits imported from other tropical countries, though the origin of these fruits is disputed. Bananas and coconuts are very important, not only to Indonesian cuisine, but for various purposes such as building material for walls or roofs, oil, the base food, packaging, and others.

Snacks and snack Indonesia

In many large cities commonly encountered Chinese snacks such as dumplings, bakmie, and meatballs are sold either by the merchant sidewalk to the curb or in a restaurant. China cuisine dishes are often adapted into Indonesia. One example of adaptation is rarely used pork and beef replaced by adjusting with the majority of citizens are mostly Muslim Indonesia. One of the street food is a popular roadside dumplings and Batagor (abbreviation of Meatballs Fried Tofu), pempek, chicken porridge, green bean porridge, satay, rice and fried noodles, fried bean sprouts, laksa, and fried.

Indonesia roadside hawker also includes a variety of sweet drinks, like ice or ice dawet cendol, ice jazzed, grass jelly ice, ice Doger, mixed ice, ice pieces, and ice puter. Indonesian special cake is often referred to as the snack market. Indonesia has a rich variety of snacks and pastries, both savory and sweet. Popular cakes include risoles, pastels, spring rolls, lemper, rice cake, know the contents, lapis legit, getuk, bakpia, bika ambon, lupis, lemang, banana cake, Klepon, onde-onde, nagasari, Soes, and steamed sponge.

Roadside hawker traders commonly found in Indonesia, as well as mobile vendors who use carts, bicycles, or pole. Roadside food trader or peddler is called street hawkers - (based on five-foot wide curb lanes in Indonesia, but other theories say the word 'street vendors' carts based on the number three feet by two feet merchant!). Most peddler or hawker has distinctive features and specific tool to announce its presence, such as satay vendors shouting "teeee sateee", traders pounded fried frying, traders pound meatball bowl or gong, or merchant chicken noodle hit gong or block of wood.

The most common and popular drinks in Indonesia

The most common and popular drinks in Indonesia is the tea and coffee. Indonesian households usually serve sweet tea and black coffee for guests. Since the colonial Dutch East Indies, plantation, especially in Java known as a producer of tea, coffee, and sugar. Since then the tea and hot coffee favored by the citizens of Indonesia. Black tea is a type of jasmine tea is most popular in Indonesia, but due to the increased awareness of health, green tea began to rage. Usually coffee or tea as a beverage served hot or warm, but ice cold sweet tea is also popular. Bottled tea is sweet jasmine tea drinks in bottles are popular in Indonesia, even compete with soft drinks like coca cola soda foreign countries and Fanta. Coffee milk is the Indonesian version of Café au lait.

Fruit juices are also very popular, among other orange juice, guava juice, mango juice, soursop juice, and avocado juice is usually served with sweetened condensed milk added white chocolate as a beverage or dessert.
Avocado juice with chocolate milk

Many popular drinks on ice and can be categorized as a dessert drink. Ice is popular among others, coconut ice, grass jelly ice, ice or ice cendol dawet, red bean ice, ice cantaloupe, seaweed and ice.

Sweet hot drinks can also be found, such as bajigur and bandrek are especially popular in West Java. This warm drink made from coconut milk and palm sugar with a mixture of other spices. Sekoteng (drinks warm milk with nuts, pieces of bread, and china girlfriend) can be found in West Java and Jakarta. Wedang ginger (ginger hot drinks) and wedang round (warm drinks with sweet potato balls), especially popular in Yogyakarta, Central Java and East Java.

As a country with Muslim majority population, Indonesian Muslims are forbidden to drink alcohol. However, since ancient times tribes native to the islands of the archipelago have been familiar with alcoholic beverages. Based on the news from China, a kind of Javanese society Kuna drink palm wine is tapped from the so-called palm-wine. Now the popular wine in the region survive and tribal Batak, North Sumatra, most of whom are Christian. Batak traditional tavern called Lapo presents wine palm wine. In Solo, Central Java, ciu (local adaptation of Chinese wine) are also known. Brem (rice wine) bottles are also popular Bali in Bali. Indonesia is also developing a local beer brands such as Bir Bintang and anker beer.

Feast and celebrations: Tumpeng and Rijsttafel

Many parties and ceremonies in traditional Indonesian customs involving food and partying. One of the best examples is the cone. Tumpeng came from Java, a rice-shaped cone surrounded by a wide range of Indonesian cuisine. Tumpeng usually exist in the celebration of "salvation". Rice cone printed using cone-shaped bamboo, rice itself can be plain white rice, rice uduk (cooked with coconut milk), or yellow rice (tinged with "saffron"). Rice is surrounded by typical Indonesian dishes such as vegetables Urap, fried chicken, stew meat, beans anchovies, fried shrimp, egg pindang, rolls omelet slices, tempeh orek, meatball potatoes, corn meatball, sambal goreng ati, and others. Tumpeng derived from customs and beliefs native Indonesian people who glorify the mountain as the dwelling place of gods or ancestral spirits. Rice conical shape is meant to imitate the sacred mountain. The celebration is intended as a form of gratitude for the abundance of the harvest and all other blessings of the Almighty. Because it has a value of celebration and thanksgiving, until now tumpeng often serves as a "birthday cake version of Indonesia."

Indonesia is another feast Rijstafel (Dutch: rice table), this cuisine showcased elegant luxury junket typical of the rich in the colonial period as well as showing the diversity of Indonesian culinary art. Classical Rijstafel consisting of 40 kinds of cuisine that is served by 40 waiters who go barefoot, wearing a white formal dress uniform, blangkon, and batik cloth wrapped around their waists. Contemporary Indonesian party when it adopted Western-style buffet dishes. Also called a buffet or sideboard can usually be found at the wedding or other celebration. The buffet is served at a long table. The layout of the wedding buffet in Indonesia usually consists of: plates, cutlery (spoons and forks), napkin tissue, placed at the tip, followed by grain rice (white rice and fried rice), a series of typical Indonesian cuisine and is sometimes presented too foreign dishes, chili, crackers, and ends with a glass of water or soft drinks at the end of the buffet table.

TAhu Campur traditional food from indonesia

Tahu CAmpur is one of the East Javanese food. Tofu soup mix consisted of chewy beef, fried tofu, meatball cassava, fresh bean sprouts, fresh watercress, yellow noodles and prawn crackers. All this is then mixed with spice paste, fried onion and chili sauce. This dish is sold in sidewalk stalls with the label "Mix Lamongan Know. "

Too bad if it does not taste the food on this one when visiting the east of Java, because this is one of typical foods.

and to look very easy, because it is available in the shop stalls.

come and try to feel the joy out of this mix, if a visit to eastern Java.