Indonesian Specialties

1. Rendang

Rendang (Minang Language: Randang) is one of Minangkabau tradional dishes that use meat and coconut milk as a main ingredient containing spices are rich. Dishes with aspicy flavor is favored by the entire community, and can be found all over the Padang Restaurant in Indonesia orin Other countries. This dish is sometimes better known as rendang Padang, but rendang is Minang cuisine in general.

Rendang is a dish that contains rich spices. In addition to the basic ingredients of beef, rndang uses coconut milk (karambia), and a mixture of various spises typical of the sepeppers are mashed (lado), lemongrass, galangal, turmeric, ginger, garlic, onions and various other spices are commonly reffered to as the cooker. The uniqueness of rendang is the use of natural ingredients, which are antiseptic and kill pathogenic bacteria that act as natural preservatives. Garlic, shallots, ginger, and galangal are known to have strong antimicrobial activity. Not surprisingly, the rendang can be keptone week to four weeks.

The process of cooking authentic rendang can spend hours and hours (usually about four hours) because that's cooking rendang takes time and patience. The piece of meat cooked with hot spices and coconut milk in a proper fire, stirring gently until the coconut milk and spices absorbed by the meat. After boiling, the fire diminished and continue stirring until the milk thickens and becomes dry. Cooking rendang should be patient and painstaking attended, always carefully inverted in order to dry the coconut milk and spices perfectly absorbed, without scorch or destroy flesh. The process in known in the art of cooking with modern culinary term 'caramlization'. Because it uses many types of condements, rendang is known to have a complex and unique flavor. 

In 2011, rendang dish was named the first rank in the list of World's 50 Most Delicious Foods held by CNN International.

2. Ketropak

Ketoprak is one kind of typical Indonesian food using the diamond is easy to find. Usually diamond sold using the stroller on teh streets or on the sidewalk. Its main component is out, rice noodles, cucumber, bean sprouts and hard boiled eggs can also use that comes with peanut sauce, soy sauce and a sprinkling of fried shallots. Can also be served with crackers or chips melinjo. There are several versions that include tempeh as its components.

How to Make:

Fry known the taste of oil until golden. Dice-shaped slices of fried tofu.

Washed bean sprouts and discard the roots. Boil bean sprouts until half cooked, remove and drain. Pour rice noodles with hot water and drain.

Tamarind 3 tbsp water with less dissolved.

Peanuts and fried sago crackers.

How to Make seasoning Ketoprak:

Peanuts, garlic, red pepper and cayenne pulverized / shear zones until smooth. Then add the tamarinf water, salt and soy sauce. Dissolved in a little water and stir until evently disributed.

How to Serve:

Put in a dish, tofu, bean sprouts and vermicelli, then pour the marinade, sprinkle fried onion sand sago crackers on it.

For 1-2 people.

3. Pempek or Empek-empek Palembang

Pempek or Empek-empek Palembang is the typical food made from fish and sago. Actually it is difficult to say that pempek center is because almost all Palembang in south Sumatra region producing it.

Pempek presentation accompained by a sauce of black brownish-called vinegar or cuko (Palembang Language). Cuko made from boiled water, then add brown sugar, shrimp, dried shrimp and crushed chili, garlic, and salt. Indigenous people of Palembang, cuko than once madespicy to increase appetite. But as the influx of immigrants from outside the island of Sumatra is now found cuko with a sweet taste you do not like spicy. Cuko can protect teeth from caries (damage to the enamel and dentin). Because in one liter of solution usually contained 9-13 sauce pempek ppm fluoride a complement to the typicaleating tsteless food is fresh cucumber slices and diced yellow noodles.

Pempek kind is the famous "pempek submarine", which is chicken wrapped in egg batter and fried in oil pempek heat. There are other such as pempek lenjer, pempek round (or known by the name "ada'an"), fish skin pempek, pempek pistel (papaya slices content that has been spiced stew), pempek small eggs, and pempek curly.

Pempek could very easily be found throughout the city of palembang. Pempek sold everywhere in Plembang, there are selling at a restaurant, there's a side of the road, and also there is a bear. Canteens in all schools / workplace / campus would anyone sell pempek. in the 1980s, sellers usually carry a basket pempek full pempek while walking around the city of palembang hawking food.

4. Gudeg

Warm (gudheg Java Language) is the food of Yogyakarta and Central java, which is made from young jackfruit cooked in coconut milk. it took me hours to make this dish. Brown color is usually generated by teak leaves are cooked simultaneously. Eaten warmwith rice and served with thick coconut milk ( areh), chicken, eggs, tofu and sambal goreng krecek.

There are different variants of warm, among others

warm dry, which is served warm with areh trick, much thicker than coconut milk in cooking field.

warm wet, which is served warm with dilute areh.

solo warm, which is a areh warm white.

5. Gangan Biliton

Pacific Islands cuisine is a cuisine that is made by cooking the bangka And Biliton. Pacific Island cuisine can be devoted to cuisine of the island of Bangka and Biliton cuirsine from the island of Biliton. Pacific Island cuisine is quite diverse cuisine because the ingredients used are different between the island and also influences the way people cook the other provincies, especially from South Sumatra, where formerly the pacific islands are still joined. Pacific Islands fod categories distinguished by typical Malay cuisine and Hakka cuisine, especially Chinese cuisine. Pacific Islands Malay cuicine rarely found outside of the pacific Islands, while the Chinese dishes are often foubd on the island of Java, mainly in Greater Jakarta.

there are many delicious Indonesian specialties, these are just a few of the many foods.

5 people in the world's oldest

1. Jeanne Calment

     21st February 1875 – 4th August 1997 Age: 122 years 164 days

 

Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) had the longest living person confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of 122 years, 164 days. She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the centenary of Vincent van Gogh’s visit brought reporters to Arles. She entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1988, and on 17 October 1995 she became the oldest person ever, having surpassed the (now dubious) case of Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan. She became the last living documented person born in the 1870s when the Japanese supercentenarian Tane Ikai (born 1879) died on 12 July 1995; in total she outlived no fewer than 329 undisputedly verified supercentenarians. Her life span has been thoroughly documented by scientific study, with more records having been produced to verify her age than for any other case. She is the only person ever to be confirmed beyond any doubt to have reached 120 years of age.

2. Shigechiyo Izumi
     29th June 1865 – 21st February 1986 Age: 120 years 237 days

 

3. Sarah Knauss
     24th September 1880 – 30th December 1999 Age: 119 years 97 days

Sarah DeRemer Knauss (September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999) was an American supercentenarian considered the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, the date of the death of 117-year-old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur, until her own death. At age 117, she also set the record for the world’s oldest “new” title-holder (which corresponds to the highest “valley” on a graph of the oldest living persons over time). Knauss is the second-oldest fully documented person ever, behind Jeanne Calment. She was the last verified living person to have been born before 1885, and the most recent person to reach age 117.

4. Lucy Hannah
    16th July 1875 – 21st March 1993 Age: 117 years 248 days

Lucy Hannah née Terrell (July 16, 1875 – March 21, 1993) was an American supercentenarian. Hannah is the third-oldest person ever and the oldest black person ever, as well as the oldest living American at the time of her death. She is also the oldest person never to have been the oldest living person, since she lived at the same time as Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever to live.

5. Marie-Louise Meilleur
    29th August 1880 – 16th April 1998 Age: 117 years 230 days

Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur (née Chassé; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998) was a French Canadian supercentenarian who, upon the death of Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, became the oldest recognized living person. Meilleur is still the oldest validated Canadian ever.

5 The world's largest tsunami

1. Tsunami Aceh

This tsunami occurred on December 26, 2004 due to an earthquake measuring 9.1 to 9.3 on the Richter scale. The tsunami waves swept some parts of Aceh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Maldives and East Africa region. As many as 226,000 people died in the tsunami with 166,000 souls is a citizen of Indonesia. The earthquake causes a tsunami is the fourth largest earthquake that occurred in history.

2. Tsunami in Ancient Greece 

Tsunami in the Ancient Greece is known to be first recorded tsunami in history. Therefore, the tsunami is the eruption of the mountain near the island of Thera, or Santorini. The number of people killed in the tsunami is not known with certainty, but is estimated at more than 100,000 people. The tsunami waves estimated at 15 meters. Meanwhile, the tsunami that occurred in 1500 BC is expected to cause the collapse of Minoan civilization, a civilization that developed at that time.

 

3. Tsunami in Portugal, Spain, and Marocco

This tsunami caused by an earthquake centered in the bottom waters of the Atlantic in 1755. Tsunami waves hit the cities in Portugal, Spain, and Morocco with the worst damage occurred in the region of Lisbon. Tsunami wave height does not exceed the Krakatau tsunami, but the number of people killed far more, as many as 60,000 people.

 

4. South China Sea Tsunami

 

This tsunami occurred in 1782 in the South China Sea region adjacent to Taiwan. Therefore, the tsunami is a tectonic earthquake that occurred on the ocean floor. It is not clear epicenter and strength, but as many as 40,000 people have died because of it. Based on the published catalog of Russian tsunami, tsunami waves hit the mainland as far as 120 kilometers.

 

5. The Tsunami caused by the eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait

 

This tsunami occurred in 1883 and killed approximately 36,000 people. The tsunami waves caused by the eruption reaches a height of 40 meters and swept at least 165 villages in the area of ​​Java and Sumatra. Krakataunya eruption itself is the largest volcanic eruption in history, creating a sound so loud and even volcanic ash that spread up to Australia

 

 

5 largest aquarium in the world

1.  Georgia Aquarium (6,3 million gallons)

Georgia Aquarium is the largest aquarium in the world and is home to 100,000 sea creatures. Funded by donations from Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, then the aquarium opened in November 2005. Water capacity is 24 million liters of water.

2. Dubai Mall Aquarium (2,64 million gallons)

Dubai Mall, one of the world's largest shopping center is part of the Burj Dubai complex. The core of the mall is a giant aquarium with a capacity of 10 million liters of water. And has a collection of about 33,000 living animals including 400 sharks of various kinds. In February 2010, there was a shark jump and cause a leak then the activity of the mall stopped for a moment because of it.

3. Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (1,98 million gallons)

The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium is located in Ocean Expo Park and opened in 2002. Marine aquarium tank called the Kuroshio has a 7.5 liter engine and an acrylic glass panels by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 cm. In July 2010, there were a total of four of the manta born in this aquarium.

4. L'Oceanogràfic (1,85 million gallons)

L'Oceanografic located in Valencia, Italy and the largest aquarium in Europe. This aquarium has a collection of marine animals around 45.00. The tunnel under the water here has a 35 meter panjangnnya.

5. Turkuazoo (1,32 million gallons)

 

Opened in 2009, Turkuazoo a giant aquarium that was built in Turkey. The Aquarium is located in Istanbul Forum Shopping Mall and contains a 80 meter long tunnel. Turkuazoo has a collection of about 10,000 different species of marine animals including tiger sharks, stingrays and piranhas

5 places in the world mysterious

1 Easter Island

     This island lies between Tahiti and Chile, and gained international popularity because of remarkable colossal statues shaped the human face. Each statue is 14 feet tall (about 4 meters), weighed 75 tonnes, made of volcanic stone, and represents the work of Rapa Nui society. Until now, It’s unknown how the statue was made by primitive technology owned by the society. There are various theories about the origin of the statue and its meaning, including one of them is fantastic theory which says that the statue was made by a UFO. But, until now the truth of all the existing theory has not been revealed.

2. Egypt Mesir

 

 

      Egypt is one of the most mysterious and magical places on the planet. Located in North Africa, this country has more than 80 pyramids which spread along the Nile river. Each of the pyramids is around 100 meters high, made of giant stones weighing up to 100 tons each. Until now legends about the pyramids are still inviting new gossip, new myths and beliefs that still emerged. Among all of the pyramids, the Pyramid of Cheops is the highest. All of the pyramid was built only with stones piled one above the other stone. There’s no glue, nails or any adhesive found to be used in the manufacture of the pyramid. All the stones fit together somehow, so it is very difficult to find any cracks or gaps. Issues concerning the construction techniques used are also still unanswered to this day. So if you are indeed looking for mysteries, the Pyramids of Egypt will be a mystery to you all.

3. The Bermuda Triangle

     In the northwest of Atlantic ocean, lies the Bermuda Triangle. Within this triangle there are 7 large islands and 150 smaller islands which are really just clusters of coral. This triangle is also known as the triangle of evil – all high-tech equipment and all navigation equipment is not working properly in this place. Often even the communication with the world outside of this triangle has a problem. No one knows why and how to prevent this.

4. Xinjian

 

      In this city, there is neglected area called “Moguicheng” or the city of Demon. Several castles in Moguicheng generate strange noises that are not clear where’s it from. If you approach this city of demon on a hot day with little breeze, you will listen to the rhythm of sweet, like 10 million or 10 million small bell guitar playing together beautifully. But if the winds came, then the resulting sound will be like a roaring lion, crying babies or the howling of wolves.

5. Stonehenge

      Stonehenge is a mysterious stone Monument in the county of Upshur in England. No one knows what is the purpose of this Stonehenge, whether it’s a court, or place of worship, or temple, or perhaps a sign of a UFO?

5 guitar world's most expensive

1. Reach out to Asia Fender Stratocaster: $2.7 million

     This guitar sold at auction in Qatar in 2005, to raise funds  for Reach out to Asia, a charity formed to help the tsunami victims. Coordinated by Bryan Adams, was signed by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus & Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard and Bryan Adams himself. Initially taken by the Qatari royal family for $ 1 million and later donated to charity, after it was sold again to a price of $ 2.7 million, which means that the guitar has yielded a total of $ 3.7 million dollars for charity.

2. Jimi Hendrix’s 1968 Stratocaster: Estimated Price $2 million

      This guitar Hendrix played at Woodstock in 1969. From 1970 until 1990 was in charge of drummer Mitch Mitchell, before emerging to the surface in 1990 at the opening of the new Fender Artist Centre complete with cigarette burns on the headstock, and Trademark Jimi reverse stringing. It sold at Sotheby’s in the same year for $ 198,000. The rumors say that Paul Allen (Bill Gates’ right-hand man at Microsoft) is paid two million dollars for this guitar in 1998.

3. Bob Marley’s Custom made Washburn 22 series Hawk: estimated Price $1.2 to 2 million

      Classified as a national asset by the government of Jamaica, this guitar is one of only seven guitar of reggae icon’s life. On November 21, 1971, after a gig in Vancouver, Marley gave the guitar to a guitar technician Gary Carlsen with the words, “Take it as you will understand later.” Amazing, Carlsen took this as a sign that he should use the gifts he has given to a better world in some way, and so he founded the charity “Different Journeys, One Destination”, offers guitar as a prize in the lottery.

4. Blackie – Stratocaster hybrid: $959,500

      In 1970, due to the effect from other guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton decided to switch from Gibson to the Stratocaster guitar. Clapton bought six vintage Strats from the guitar shop in Texas for a hundred dollars each. He gave three to go (for George Harrison, Pete Townshend and Steve Winwood) and then collect the best parts of the remaining three. which he named ‘Blackie’ as a dark finish. Clapton Blackie played for the first time in January 1973, and continues to do so until he retired in 1985 because of neck problems. Blackie sold at auction in 2004, and became the one of the world’s most expensive guitar for $ 959,000.

5. Eric Clapton’s 1964 Gibson ES0335 TDC: $847,500

      The guitar was used as Clapton’s guitar particularly during 1964, but only rarely after that. It took the highest price ever paid for a Gibson when auctioned.



 

5 Richest Person in The World 2011

1. Carlos Slim Helu ($53 billion – Microsoft, U.S.)

     He is the world’s wealthiest person from Mexico, he is a business man and also a philanthropist. Carlos Slim is the chairman and CEO of telecommunications companies Telmex and America Movil. America Movil, which at 2010 was Latin America’s largest mobile-phone carrier, accounted for around US$49 billion of his wealth by the end of 2010. His corporate holdings at February 2011 have been estimated at US$74 billion, net worth up $18.5 billion in a year and from these estimates he is the wealthiest person in the world.

2. Bill Gates ($53 billion – Microsoft, U.S.)

      Everybody knows who is the Bill gates, he is the chairman and founder of Microsoft company. He took the 2nd position with an estimated worth of $53 billion. After the 50% growth in the price of Microsoft Stock.Net worth still up $13 billion in a year. Bill gates has been the richest man for almost 14 to 15 times.

3. Warren Buffett ($47 billion – Investments, U.S.)

     America’s favorite investor up $10 billion in past 12 months on surging Berkshire Hathaway shares; says U.S. has survived economic “Pearl Harbor,” but warns recovery will be slow. Shrewdly invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs and $3 billion in General Electric amid 2008 market collapse. Recently acquired railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $26 billion.

4. Mukesh Ambani ($29 billion- Petrochemicals, oil and gas. India.)

     He has a 4th number in Top 10 richest person list. He is the chairman of Reliance Industries in India Reliance company is the most valuable company of India. Mukesh Ambani inherited his corporate from his father who founded the company. He has an estimated amount of $29 billion.

5. Lakshmi Mittal ($28.7 billion – Steel, India.)

       Net profits at his ArcelorMittal, world’s largest steel-maker, are up 18-fold to $2.9 billion in 2010 due to recovery in steel demand and higher margins. Group spun off its stainless steel unit into Aperam, a new listed company, and also acquired Canadian miner Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation. It has funded a 377-foot sculpture called ArcelorMittal Orbit in London’s Olympic Park for the 2012 Olympics. Europe’s richest resident, he bought Alderbrook Park, a 340-acre country estate outside London, where he plans to build an eco-friendly country mansion for a reported $40 million. Daughter Vanisha acquired stake in Roc Capital Management, a New York hedge fund. Daughter-in-law Megha owns German fashion house Escada.

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