Descriptive Text

Descriptive Text Assignment

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.

            Traditional sambals are freshly made using traditional tools, such as a stone pestle and mortar.          Sambal can be served raw or cooked. The chili pepper, garlic, shallot and tomato are often freshly ground using a mortar, while the terasi or belacan (shrimp paste) is fried or burned first to kill its pungent smell as well as to release its aroma. Sambal might be prepared in bulk, as it can be easily stored in a well-sealed glass jar in the refrigerator for a week to be served with meals as a condiment.However, some households and restaurants insist on making freshly-prepared sambal just a few moments prior to consuming in order to ensure its freshness and flavor; this is known as sambal dadak (lit. "impromptu sambal" or "freshly made sambal"). Nevertheless, in most warung and restaurants, most sambal is prepared daily in bulk and offered as a hot and spicy condiment.

        Today some brands of prepared, prepacked, instant, or ready-to-use sambal are available in warung, traditional markets, supermarkets and convenience stores. Most are bottled sambal, with a few brands available in plastic or aluminum sachet packaging. Compared to traditional sambals, bottled instant sambals often have a finer texture, more homogenous content, and thicker consistency, like tomato ketchup, due to the machine-driven manufacturing process. Traditionally made sambals ground in a pestle and mortar usually have a coarse texture and consistency.

        Several brands produce bottled sambals, among others are Huy Fong Foods' sambal oelek, Heinz ABC sambal terasi and several variants of sambal Indofood.

Anywhere, Anytime With Online Ojek

In this age, mobility is a requirement. That is why transportation exist, to help you to get to somewhere quicker. Many people buy car, motorbike, or use public transportation. However, car can get stuck in traffic, public transportation is unaffordable, and not anyone is able to use motorbike.

Online ‘ojek’ or hired motorbike driver is booming these days. Its easiness, practicability, and affordable rate possess certain appeal for people. Many people start to use it as their daily transportation.

The famous online ojek application is Go-Jek. People can download the application, sign up, and use the provided service such as go-jek, go-food, etc. The driver of go-jek is usually wearing a black jacket with blue go-jek symbol along with green helmet.
PT Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa doing business as GO-JEK is an Indonesian hyperlocal transport, logistics and payments startup founded in 2010. It is the first startup of Indonesian origin to be classified as a transport system company after closing a round of funding in August 2016. GO-JEK's fleet now exceeds 400,000 drivers and includes motorcycles, cars and trucks. It is the largest Unicorn (A unicorn is a startup company valued at over $1 billion) based in Jakarta, Indonesia. The company is valued at about $5 billion as of February, 2018. A survey revealed it as the most popular ride-hailing app in Indonesia.
People in 50 cities in Indonesia can now hail a ride via GO-JEK including Bali, Balikpapan, Banda Aceh, Bandar Lampung, Bandung, Banjarmasin, Banyuwangi, Batam, Belitung, Bukittinggi, Cilacap, Cirebon, Garut, Gresik,Jakarta, Jambi, Jember, Karawang, Kediri, Madiun, Madura, Magelang, Makassar, Malang, Manado, Mataram, Medan, Mojokerto, Padang, Palembang, Pasuruan, Pekalongan, Pekanbaru, Pematang Siantar, Pontianak, Probolinggo, Purwakarta, Purwokerto, Salatiga, Samarinda, Semarang, Serang, Sidoarjo, Solo, Sukabumi,Sumedang, Surabaya, Tasikmalaya, Tegal, and Yogyakarta, with more cities to follow in the coming years.