i'm afraid

i cannot even begin to describe the anxiety that this passion fruit caused me.  i was excited to try it in its raw form but was immediately terrorized by the violent images of alien babies being sucked out of their egg sacks by other alien species, i being the other alien species.  the flavor was good but as you can see, the little seeds/fetuses are covered in a mucus like substance and you can't bite as much as you can suck up the insides of this fruit.  when you bite down all you can imagine is the bones being crushed between  your teeth.  terrifying.  i felt so much fear and discomfort as i tried to consume it that i had to abandon finishing the rest of it for fear of its mothership landing on earth and destroying the entire human race.

daily food

 cisilia and her husband took annie and i to a delicious 

japanese restaurant in town.  they only seemed to 

have half of the menu items in stock but what they 

did have was very good.  the top left is how my bento 

box was served.  i ordered chicken katsu which came 

with miso soup.  we shared the two sushi rolls 

(volcano roll and dragon roll) between everyone.

lo mie kangkung (noodles in a broth with some vegetables, chicken and shrimp)

kangkung hotplate.  kangkung is the green 

vegetable otherwise known as water spinach. yum.

gado gado all wrapped up.  gado gado is a salad with peanut sauce.

cooking lesson: spicy indonesian tempeh

ingredients: tempeh, ground up red chilies, garlic, and 

those green things.  mom, what are those green things?  

please tell me.  i couldn't understand what the guy at the market 

was telling me. all i knew is that i should add them to the dish.

chop up the tempeh

fry it up

good enough to eat as is with a little salt

heat up the rest of the ingredients

add water, then throw in the fried tempeh

i added a little salt and a touch of tomato sauce.  delicious!

annie and her falafel

post thanksgiving treats

jon, i hope you're jealous

the greatest battle of them all

chicken sate

my food face (left) and serena's (right)

we've made a decision to each make a food 

face every time we go to heng's from now on

romeo, who can be really annoying but sure is a good looking' dog

thanksgiving

thank you everyone for your beautiful and delicious text 

pictures of everything you ate.  i hope you all had a tasty and 

satisfying thanksgiving.  love you all and miss you all!  

now you can enjoy my thanksgiving feast!

started out with a tasty jus jeruk (fresh squeezed orange juice)

roti omelet biasa (i didn't know what it was but the name 

looked interesting.  i was pleased to eat this omelet sandwich)

i tried to make a point to eat all day and ordered 

some sate with peanut sauce.  sorry there aren't any 

pictures of the inside but i took one and it looked 

really disgusting and decided not to show you.

the main event.

lucky day

sea games

my humble abode.  our house is on the right, neil's is on the left. romeo 

is the stray dog trying to wander in the front door. he follows us around everywhere, 

everyday, all the time.  we don't let him in but we feed him sometimes.

view of the main street.  most streets here don't look like this.

my first bus experience.  really loud indian pop music, jam 

packed, the second your foot touches the inside of the bus, the 

driver hits the gas.  having reflexes like a cat comes in handy.

it was 3000 rupiah per ride which is about thirty cents. not bad.

the bus had really interesting interior decor.  

chains, fake flowers, a lot of velvet.

this guy in the stripes is who you pay when you get on the bus.  he hangs halfway 

out the bus and yells out where the bus is going and if you want to get on, the bus 

slows down and this guy claps and yells at you to hurry and get it.  this is also the view 

from the ampera bridge as we were crossing it on our way to jakabaring, where the 

games were held.  the bus was really fun but really sweaty and crowded.

the sea games stadium.  beautiful!

we spent half an hour trying to get in.  it was literally packed like sardines.  

i finally weaseled my way to the front and was halfway really excited 

and halfway terrified that the railing was going to break and i was 

going to hit concrete then have thousands of indonesians fall on top of me.  

the lovely synchronized swimmers.  this was after the event was over.  i'm not 

sure what country this was but they didn't place and i imagine their coach 

was punishing them by making them relive every wrong move they made.

warm ups before the events.

happy and hilarious thailand supporters

indonesia (lane two) was in the lead and we were all very 

excited but then thailand snuck in and beat him by half a second.

masses and masses of people

bugs having a party in the lights

the sculpture and fountain outside of jakabaring