Panorama Khatulistiwa

Rendang is a typical food of western Sumatra, beef cooked with coconut milk and spices have been worldwide either the name or flavor. The food is reasonably easy to find in Indonesia of a roadside diner to a five star restaurant . Price per serving varied Rp.20 thousand to Rp.40 thousand.   To you who are outside Indonesia, lest not tasted this food when visiting Indonesia , the guarantee certainly regret.

Indonesia is rich of traditional culinary. Every province has its own food so that tourism in Indonesia is not merely visiting places but also taste the local food. Beside Ketoprak, Jakarta has a classic traditional food called Kerak Telor (Egg Crust). This kind of food exists from many years ago since Jakarta was named Batavia.Kerak is basically rice crust that is adhering to the pot. The main substances for Kerak Telor are egg and rice. Those substances are for the crust which is rather crispy on its edge. The additional substances are butter, cooked shredded meat, fried onion, cheese, chopped meat or anything else that makes it more tasty and luxurious. To make Kerak Telor the first step is making the crust. Using small pan, the rice is half cooked, and then an egg is added. The next step is pouring other substances into the pan one by one. It uses pan to make the food thin and circular. After a while the food is ready to be served. Accompanied by a cup of java coffee is the best w...

Coto Makassar is one of the most famous Indoesian food. No one know when coto makassar was found. The only thing that people know is that coto makassar is one of the most famous Makassar food. If we go to Makassar someday, don’t forget to try this delicious food. Coto Makassar ingredients are shallots, garlic cloves, salam leaves, coriander seeds, some water, lemon grass, peanuts, galangal, chinese celery, and beef chuck. People of jenoponto usually use horse meat to make coto makassar. If we want to try this food, don’t worry, coto makassar now can easily found anywhere and anytime, so you don’t have to go to Makassar just because you want to try this food. If we go to the mall, usually we can easily found this food, just look for Indonesian typical restaurant there. In Makassar, the price of coto makassar are different between one place and another. The price are varies from Rp 3500,00 to Rp 7000,00. 

Gado-gado is one of Indonesia's most favourite dish everywhere in the world. It is actually vegetable salad dressed in specially prepared peanut sauce. In Indonesia, there are a few dish that resemble gado-gado (with the same kind, or a variation of peanut sauce), such as pecel, lotek, and ketoprak. Pecel and lotek is the closest to gado-gado, so people often mistake them as gado-gado. Preparation of gado-gado is mainly the preparation of the peanut sauce. There are many gado-gado recipes in the Internet, but most of them advice the use of peanut butter or freshly fried peanut grinded with a blender. But the original traditional Indonesian gado-gado uses cobek batu (Indonesian style stone pestle). This is one of the ingenous Indonesian food preparation technique. The pestle makes the peanuts not to become too soft and produce a certain kind of flavor which cannot be achieved by using blender or peanut butter. Using a pestle is not just crunching the peanuts but also mixes the...