Sulawesi Travel and Bumbu
I enjoy my travels here in Sulawesi.
The past 2 days I was in Makassar where I stayed in one of my favorite hotels, facing Losari Bay in Makassar. In the afternoon, young boys, as may as 30 of them, would use the breakwaters as their diving board. The water in the bay is not so high, they can be 500 meters off the beach and the water is still shallow.
I can also see a lot of fishermen’s boats passing. It looks like a very prosperous area with plenty of boats and fish to catch, and the children happy with their improvised diving board. At sunset, the breakwaters would be lined with people to watch it, some having nasi goreng or pisang epe by the road side. It’s such a happy site that I can see from the 8th floor of my airconditioned hotel room where the food was delicious.
This morning, I moved on to Kendari, some 45 minutes flight away from Makassar. Before going to our meetings, our host brought us to have lunch of broiled fish. They have a unique style here in their fish restaurants.
While waiting for the fish to be cooked, we are free to peel the shallots placed on the table complete with a knife, mix your own tomato-shallot-chilli-garlic bumbu. By the time we finished our bumbu, the grilled fish is ready to be served.
This evening, we went to another such restaurant, this time along the Kendari Bay. After dinner, we drove around the city and stopped by a durian and rambutan warung by the breakwaters. Their durian is delicious- small but tasty and the smell is not that strong. They even gave me rambutan for free! I hope I won’t get indigestion after all the fruits I ate today!
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