| Most warungs (food
stalls) across Indonesia serve a dish called Tami Goring. The dish
is actually the old Cantonese dish known to westerners as Chow Mein.
Basically it is stir fried mixed vegetables, prawn, chicken, pork or fish,
or any combination thereof served over deep fried noodles. |
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Tami Goring (Chow Mein)
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| My favourite Tami Goring was always
from the Cirebon restaurant in Ampenan, Lombok. |
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Cirebon Restaurant Lombok
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Hard to find in Bali
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| The dish is common
throughout Indonesia. However very difficult to find in Bali. Ask most
Balinese and they have never heard of it. However it can be found in Denpasar
if you go to a Chinese owned restaurant, which tend to be only patronized
by Chinese. In the Bali tourist area many restaurants purport to have a
Chinese Menu, however I have yet to find Tami Goring being offered. |
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| After constant searching |
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| we have at last found an Authentic
Tami Goring in Bali, delicious! |
| They have it in the food court at
the Chinese Stand in Tiara Grosir, Gatot Subroto, on the cnr of Jl Gatot
Subroto and Jl Kerobokan. |
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| 200 gm fresh egg noodles |
| 1 cup bamboo shoots |
| 1 cup water chestnuts |
| 1/2 red bell pepper |
| 1 cup fresh snow peas |
| 2 celery stalks |
| 2 slices ginger |
| 2 TB dark soy sauce |
| 1 teaspoon sugar |
| 1 TB Chinese rice vinegar |
| 1 cup mung bean sprouts |
| Prawns - chicken - beef |
| Blanch noodles in boiling water
& let dry, then fry until crisp. Cut red pepper, remove seeds,
cut into thin strips. String the snow peas, cut celery into strips. Heat
wok, add 2 T'bl S oil. When hot, add the minced ginger, stir-fry briefly
until aromatic. Add meat, then water chestnuts. Stir-fry briefly, and add
the other vegetables except for the mung bean sprouts. Stir in
soy sauce, sugar, and rice vinegar and bean sprouts. make a bed of
fried noodles on a plate, arrange stir fry on top and serve immediately. |
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| One day an Indonesian
teacher asked his class, what is one million rupiah multiplied by two.
Budi, a bright kid put up his and and said "Sir, two point two million."
The teacher said "Budi sorry that's wrong, it's two million rupiah."
"Sir" said Budi objecting, "you forgot about adding corruption" |
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Tourism UP
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| JAKARTA: Indonesia's tourist
industry is expected to contribute about US$6 billion to the nation's income
this year, up from only $4.8 billion targeted in 2004, an official said
on Thursday. "If the security condition is stable over the next few months,
it's not impossible that we'll reach the target" said Minister of Culture
& Tourism Jero Wacik. |
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