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.
Many foods in Indonesia using rendang as a spice ingredient complement. Last year, the CNN news site announced a typical Indonesian rendang as the world's number one best-seller food. This year, CNN re-issued a list of 50 world's best food through 35,000 voting on Facebook social media. The results of voting on the facebook page says that rendang is the best food in the world because of its unique spicy flavor
Not only in Indonesia, sambal can come from
another country like Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and others. In
Indonesia, sambal can be varied from different places. Such as Sambal Dabu-dabu
from Manado that look same with Salsa sauce from Mexico, sambal Penyet, sambal
Pencit from Java that use mango, and others.
Every
sambal have their own uniqueness taste. Locals usually created or innovate
their own sambal to fit their tongue or ability spice. Sambal is the perfect
additional for Indonesian food.
1. The word "plastic" in paragraph 3. It should be made from stone.
2. The word "cherry" in paragraph 3. Sambal doesn't made from cherry.
3. The word "infamous" in paragraph 2 and 4. Sambal is a famous among tourists.
4. The word "of" and "from" in the title. It have to be written like, "The Food of Hell from Indonesia."
5. The phrase "main meal" in paragraph 4, Sambal is not Indonesian people's main meal.
6. The phrase "super spicy" in paragraph 4. Not all sambals are spicy.
7. The word "smooth" in paragraph 3. Not all sambals are smooth.