Descriptive Text of Sambal

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 variation of sambal in Indonesia. The variation is caused by several factors. First, because of the additional ingredients that are mixed in sambal, for example pineapple sambal, mango sambal, and sambal terasi. Second, because of the different ways of processing, for example sambal ulek, sambal matah, and sambal goreng. Third, because of the different functions, for example sambal rujak and sambal ulek. Each variation must have a distinctive flavor, but still will not be able to remove the spicy flavor that comes from chili.

1. Sambal is made by grinding ‘cabai’ or chili, along with several complements such as onion, cherry, tomato, ‘terasi’, sugar, and salt. (I think Cherry should be erased and replaced with lime or lime leaves).
2. The ingredients are grinded using traditional tool made usually from wood or plastic.(I think plastic should be erased and replaced with stone).
3. Though super spicy, locals eat it in almost daily basis as their main meal. (I think main meal should be erased and replaced with additional for main meal).
4. Indonesia's cuisine (I think the grammatical is not correct, the correct is Indonesian cuisine not indonesia's cuisine).