Nasi Goreng or Fried Rice

History of Nasi Goreng

According to historical records it already existed since 4000 BC. Fried rice and then spread to Southeast Asia brought by nomads Sino-resident foreigners settled there and created a local typical fried rice which is based on the difference in the spices and how to fry. Fried rice actually comes from several properties in culture Chinese, who does not like cold food tasting and also remove the remaining food a few days earlier. 
 
There are various types of fried rice recipes but the main element is rice, cooking oil, sweet soy sauce. In addition, many other extra that can be entered, ranging from vegetables, meat, until the chili, sauces, crackers and fried eggs. 

Crackers and fried rice with egg commonly found in Indonesia. Fried rice in Indonesia and in other countries can have their own variations depending on the areas of origin and ingredients or materials used. This variation is usually influenced by food ingredients commonly used by local communities and the influence of herb seasoning from neighboring countries, foreign ethnic or cultural influences innate.


Variations of Nasi Goreng

Several variations of the famous fried rice Indonesias include the following:

*  Salted fish fried rice:  using salted fish, one of the variations that are known in Indonesia. 

*  Java Fried Rice:  fried rice is usually flavored with chili grind that makes it spicy. 
*  Goat Meat Fried Rice:  using goat meat that has a distinctive aroma. 

*  Special Fried Rice:  comes with a fried egg on top.  
*  Chicken Meat Fried Rice:  includes a piece of fried chicken.  
*  Ikan Bilis Fried Rice:  popular in Flores, with  ikan bilis contains small, dried anchovies. 
*  Prawn Fried Rice:  is served with prawns. 
*  Squid Fried Rice:  is served with squid.


Another fried rice that could be found as Indonesian Dishes:

*  Pattaya Fried Rice (Thai):  Fried rice is wrapped with omelet.

*  White Fried Rice: Fried rice is to use soy sauce as a marinade so the color is whitish. 

*  Fukien fried rice (or Fujian):  comes from the Canton area, usually served with sauce on top. 

*  Singapore Fried Rice: a cuisine from the Canton area with yellow curry seasoning.  

* Fried Rice Yangchow (or Yangzhou) also called special fried rice: although it is called "Yangzhou", it is actually not coming from the Yangzhou area. Regular served with shrimp and roast beef. Other special fried rice which is famous for fried rice with egg. 

 *  Yuanyang Fried Rice: Fried rice served with two sauces. White sauce first and the second is red. Sometimes the sauce was served in the emblem or symbol of Yin Yang Taichi.  

* Fried Rice Arabian Black Seed (not from the Arabs):  it is a lot of Indonesian special creations using native spices Arabs as part of the main ingredients. Generally using goat meat and use a lot of cumin and herb / efficacious for a good plant health. 

* Ashita Japanese Fried Rice (not from Japan): an unique creation of Indonesian Dishes. It is called as Japanese fried rice or Ashita for it is wearing Ashitaba that originating from Japan. Ashitaba is the kind of medical herb vegetables are very popular in Japan. The use of these materials causes a unique look fried green leaf. Additional mixtures usually bacon, pickled pineapple, chips and fried egg belinjo. 

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Indonesian Art of Textile

Although the process of decorating cloth through the process of batik is found in several regions in Africa or India and even in some South East Asian countries, the batik of Indonesia is unique and unequaled.  Indonesian Batik is made in several regions, but the center of the art is Central Java, in cities like Yogyakarta, Solo, Cirebon, Pekalongan and Indramayu.   The pride of Indonesians to wear batik till the present day has preserve this art of textile. The beauty of Batik is a tribute to the patience, creativity of the woman of Java, the main island of Indonesia. Credit should be also given to men who prepare the cloth and handle the dyeing and finishing process.

Batik is generally thought of as the most quintessentially Indonesian textile. Motifs of flowers, twinning plants, leaves buds, flowers, birds, butterflies, fish, insects and geometric forms are rich in symbolic association and variety; there are about three thousand recorded batik patterns.

Indonesian Batik has a worldwide recognition.

The word "batik" is Indonesian in origin, even if the concept was known by Egyptians and Indians. It is known to be more than a millenium old, and there are evidences that cloth decorated through some form of resist technique was in use in the early centuries AD in several West African, Middle-Eastern and Asian communities. The word Batik is originally an Idonesian-Malay word and means to dot .This art of textile is spread in the hindu and malay world, but Indonesia is certainly the heart of the Batik.This way of painting and coloring textile has reached its higher degree of excellence in the Island of Java , in cities like Solo, Yogyakarta, Pekalongan or Cirebon. From Java this 'batik' cloth was exported to other islands of the archipelago and to the Malay peninsula.

On the 17th century, the Javanese sultanate of Mataram accorded important ceremonial functions to the Batik clothes. Sultan Agung of Mataram is known to have dressed in white cotton decorated with Indigo blue, and his court dancers wore kain kembangan colored with a red organic dye. During the past two or three centuries batik has become one of the principal means of expression of the spiritual and cultural values of Southeast Asia. - batik archive continue -