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.
There are many variations of the sambal. One of the most famous types of sambal and even the title and song lyrics is sambal balado. In addition there is also sambal asem, sambal jengkol, onion sambal, and others. Chilli is also used for fruit, commonly called rujak. Each region has a different type of sambal.

Incorrect information :
- The special tools to make sambal called 'cobek' which made by stone or cement and shaped bocome like bowl with a small stone as grinder.
-Infamous among tourists for its spiciness. This sentence is wrong because 'sambal' is famous because it's spiciness. That's why many tourist avoid it because they know it's spicy.
- Their main meal. The locals don't put sambal as their main meals.