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Skriven 2011-11-21 02:48:26 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: Re: FRUITS & THE SEA 11116
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-=> Quoting Glen Jamieson to Nancy Backus on 17 Nov 11  01:25:00 <=-

 GJ>> Le Meridien hotel in Jakarta had one of the best breakfast choices,
 GJ>> with separate sections of the buffet for Japanese, American, Korean
 GJ>> and local.  I chose fried noodles with prawns, grilled fish with chili
 GJ>> (perfect), vegetables, crumbed fried chicken wings, stuffed tomato,
 GJ>> rendang daging (wet type, good flavour and heat), white rice and a
 GJ>> custard filled bun.  I noticed that there were Beerenberg jams and
 GJ>> marmalade, from South Australia.
 NB>> So which of those (if any) came from the American section of the
 NB>> buffet? Sounds like a perfectly lovely meal, for any time of day... :)

 GJ> Would you be surprised that my reply is, "None that I ate."?  :) 

Not at all surprised...  ;)

 GJ> When staying at another Indonesian hotel, in Jambi, the breakfast was
 GJ> served buffet style, with a couple of the tables carrying signs,
 GJ> "Traditional Corner" and "Oriental Corner".  The former had a choice
 GJ> of chicken guts soup, chicken rice porridge (bubur ayam), slices of
 GJ> what looked like boiled potato, but what was in fact compressed cooked
 GJ> rice (lempal gentong), and sprinkles of chili, chopped spring onion,
 GJ> green sambal and lime juice.  Good.  Next table had omelet,
 GJ> cornflakes, etc, which I ignored. Then came an unlabelled table with a
 GJ> chicken soup base, and sprinkles of shredded chicken meat, chopped
 GJ> coriander, dried onion and garlic flakes and red and green sambal.
 GJ> The "Oriental" had nasi liwet Solo (rice cooked with coconut milk and
 GJ> sliced boiled egg), daging masak paprika (beef in soy with capsicum),
 GJ> tumis tahu tauge (stir fried greens and tofu), and sweet black coffee.
 GJ> It was interesting to experiment by adding the sprinkles to the soup
 GJ> base and the rice porridge.

With all that to choose from, I'd probably ignore the omelet/cornflakes
etc table, too... :)  Not going to find that sort of spread in an
American hotel, though...  

 GJ>> At our Central Market in Adelaide I often see groups of school
 GJ>> children with notebooks being led around by their teachers, who
 GJ>> introduce them to the variety of fruit and vegetable sold there.
 NB>> That's a useful thing to be doing.  :)   Do they then buy some to take
 NB>> back to the classroom so that the kids can learn what they taste like,
 NB>> and what can be done with them...?

 GJ> I think so.  I have noticed some of the stall-holders giving out
 GJ> samples of fruit to the children to taste.  Of course that is good
 GJ> business, looking towards the future when those children grow up.

Hopefully at least some of the children are learning about it all at
home from their parents, too... :)  And maybe some of those that get the
tastes go home and get their parents to go back and buy for regular
consumption...  :)

ttyl     neb

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