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Besides being famous for its natural beauty, Indonesia is also famous for a variety of cultures contained in it. Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands and more than 700 tribes. Many of the number of islands and tribes indicates the cultural diversity contained in Indonesia. Every culture around the world has its own characteristics, but one of the things that characterizes a culture or nation is food. Indonesia which has diverse tribes and culture certainly has diverse foods. Here are 8 Indonesian specialties that are guaranteed to spoil your tongue!

1. Mixed vegetables with the peanut sauce

Gado-gado is a typical Indonesian food made of vegetables. Gado-gado is often referred to as a typical Indonesian salad. Gado-gado is made of boiled vegetables, which is then watered with peanut sauce. Vegetables that are usually in gado are; Cabbage, lettuce, cabbage flower, long beans, carrots, and bean sprouts. Another addition to the gado-gado is usually boiled potatoes, fried tofu, boiled eggs, and rice cake. All ingredients are cut into pieces, then doused with peanut sauce. Gado-gado is very common in Java, especially in Jakarta.

2. Gudeg

Gudeg is a typical food area of ​​Yogyakarta, Central Java and East Java. Gudeg is made of raw young jackfruit which is boiled with palm sugar, coconut milk, garlic, shallots, candlenut, coriander seeds, galangal, teak leaves, and bay leaves. Gudeg then usually served eggs or chicken, tofu, tempeh, and krecek sauce as side dishes to eat rice. Gudeg has many types, there is wet gudeg, dried gudeg, gudeg Yogyakarta, gudeg solo and gudeg east java. Dry gudeg doesn't use a lot of coconut milk and therefore drier while wet warm use of coconut milk. Gudeg Yogyakarta is usually sweeter and dry than Gudeg Solo. Meanwhile it's gudeg East Java more spicy than other gudeg types. Gudeg East Java is usually called "Gudeg Mercon" because it feels spicy like exploding on the tongue.

3. Soto.

Soto is an Indonesian meal that can be found in many regions in Indonesia. Each region also has a taste and different ingredients. The mention of Soto in each of these areas is also different, such as Sroto in Banyumas, Sauto in Tegal, and Coto in Makassar.

Soto is a kind of soup soup. Soto has different flavor variants in each region. Soto is generally made of meat, vegetables, and beef / chicken or boiled eggs but there can be other ingredients in each region. Like Soto Betawi who mostly used milk not coconut milk, or Soto Noodle Bogor plus noodles and risol. In Makassar, Coto (Soto) is made with an innocent (stomach content) of a cow and mixed with beef. Soto is generally tasty, spicy, salty, or acid can be tailored to your taste.

4. Chicken Taliwang.

Chicken Taliwang is a typical food originating from Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara. This food is said to be from Karang Taliwang Village on Lombok Island. As the name suggests, this food is made from chicken which is then formulated with spices such as red curly chili, curly cayenne, tomatoes, shrimp paste, garlic, red onion, kencur, salt, and brown sugar. This chicken is cooked by being burned and smeared with mashed spices. Chicken Taliwang has a sweet spicy taste that will spoil the tongue of the connoisseurs.

5. Pempek

Pempek is a typical Palembang food, South Sumatra, made from mackerel fish. Pempek is served with a sauce that is black. Pempek is made by grinding mackerel meat meat that has been mixed with starch and then coupled with other spices such as garlic, eggs and salt. Pempek has many types, one of which is a submarine pempek dubbed so because the shape is similar to miniature submarines. The sauce or vinegar used to eat Pempek is a black dilute sauce that has a sweet sour taste. Pempek is very mandatory to try by culinary lovers!

6. Satay

Satay is a typical Indonesian food that can be found in almost all of the countries. This food is made from chicken, beef, goats, sheep, rabbits, horses, or other meats. How to cook it is quite easy, cut the meat into small pieces and then stabbed lined up using a wood or iron. Then the meat is burned using charcoal and smeared with margarine or other desired spices. Satay then after mature flooded with peanut sauce or soy sauce seasoning. Sate is very easy to find in almost every city in Indonesia and this makes satay one of the mandatory foods tasted!

7. Egg crust

The egg crust is a typical food from the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. The egg crust is usually found if there is a people's party in Jakarta. Seen from his name, egg crust made from eggs, especially duck eggs. Other ingredients contained in the egg crust are shaved coconut, roasted, ebi, shallots, curly red chili, kencur, pepper, and garlic. The egg crust is very savory, legit and greatly pamper the tongue. The way to cook egg crust is usually also a pretty interesting thing to see. The egg crust became one of the culinary which should not be missed while culinary tourism in the capital.

8. Rendang

This time the food is probably the most popular Indonesian specialties and lots of popularity. Rendang comes from West Sumatra. This food is made from beef cooked with spices made of coconut milk, red onion, white bwang, ginger, turmeric, orange leaves, galangal, lemongrass, turmeric leaves, nutmeg powder, cayenne pepper, milled chili, and salt. Rendang is favored by many people because it feels so strong. Rendang has a savory taste. Anywhere at any time, rendang will always be favored to eat! So, Which One is your fav?