They eat a lot of rice. They have rice for every meal, including breakfast. Every meal, every day. I actually quite like rice for breakfast, but they have it with chicken curry and steamed vegetables too. At 7 in the morning. Indonesians don't actually seem to differentiate between the three meals of the day, it's generally rice, curry and steamed vegetables for every meal!
They like to hide chilies in things. A few times, over the last couple of days, I've bitten into some unknown item of food to find a concealed chili, a tiny whole one which burns so much that chewing is impossible, it's best to just spit or swallow as soon as you can. I'm not the only one this has happened to - I've seen a lot of people suddenly jump up from the dinner (or lunch or breakfast) table with streaming eyes, and run towards the water dispenser.
They have these:
It tastes a little like rice pudding, but with the consistency of jelly. Very strange. I've been making a point of trying everything new, even if it looks pretty questionable. I think this is the strangest so far!
They are quite fond of having chicken, fish and tofu on the same plate, even in the same curry! Back home I eat meat maybe once a week... here they have it for every meal! There are a couple of vegetarians on this program and I'm not sure how they're coping! This is just the food in the hotel we're staying at though - in a few days we're moving to various art centres across Indonesia and the food might be different.
I have done so much in the last two days but I have very little time to write! I'll try and give a proper update of my activities soon!
Please, give us updates
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