The Food Of Hell From Indonesia

The Food Of Hell From Indonesia


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 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. 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.


incorect information 

1. traditional tool made usually from wood or plastic
- generally in Indonesia, the ingredient to make a sambal are using "ulekan" that made from stone or wood only.

2. several complements such as onion, cherry,  tomato, ‘terasi’, sugar, and salt.
-sambal that made from cherry are exist, but that type of sambal is not from Indonesia.

3. The texture is smooth
-because sambal in Indonesia are grind using traditional tools, so the texture of sambal in Indonesia is not as smooth as chili sauce in the bottle packaging.

4. locals eat it in almost daily basis as their main meal.
-locals use sambal as a side dish, not as a main meal

           extra information

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.
In Indonesia, there are as many as 300 varieties of sambal. every region in Indonesia has typical sambal respectively, such as sambal tauco from sulawesi, sambal teri balado from padang, and sambal roa from manado. 
And there are some sambal in Indonesia that has a unique ingredients for making, such as sambal stroberi that made from strawberries, sambal roa that made from smoked roa fish, and sambal jenggot that made from coconut.


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