Tuesday, September 25, 2012

That seems...suggestive.

Mostly, the food here isn't radically different from things I have had before. It's rice or noodle based dishes, basically. I find that I am most surprised by the snack foods. For example, beef floss. No, I'm not kidding. I wish I was. Beef floss is a sweet or salty minced and shredded beef that gets put on the top of a dinner roll type bread. But you can also buy bags of it.

It's floss, but probably still a bad option for your teeth
I'm not sure whether this is an Asian thing, or just an Indonesian thing, but I've actually tried this. On a roll, not just straight from the bag. It's actually not bad. It's been shredded and seasoned and processed to the point where it doesn't really taste like beef at all. The texture is like the dust at the bottom of a container of bacon bits. Not that you can easily get real bacon bits in this country. Pork in a Muslim country is a bit of a struggle.

These days, I'm mostly amused by the names of what I would consider more "conventional" snack foods.
Contender #1:

The beng-beng. Now! Understand, I am not down on these at all. They are delicious. They are like a combination of Kit-Kats and Crunch Bars with just a little caramel. I love them. I just do not get the name at all. And they are nearly always sold at the school canteen with:

Contender #2:
The Chacha. These are also fine. They are M&M's basically, but the chocolate is a little waxier. It's just the names, guys. The beng-beng, the Chacha, and, well:

Contender #3:
These. I will freely admit that due to package design, the first time I saw them I thought they were just called balls. They are not. They are in fact called Chiki balls. I don't think it helps much. I don't know. These, by the way, are essentially Cheetos.

I will let you know if I find anything else in the snack food world worth mentioning.

3 comments:

  1. they all look good except for the beef floss :-) miss you!

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  2. chicki balls!!! Say it fast. That's all I am going to say.

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  3. proving I am not a robot is extremely difficult. I had to type the code 5 times.

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