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Acar is kind of preserved food. It usually served with another dish like Fried Rice, meat or chicken Satay, Martabak Telur, or we can eat it without any dishes. The taste of Acar is sour and wry. That's why many people don't really like this food. Regardless of the taste, the food is very healthy and refreshing. Because all of the ingredients are vegetables. And how to make this meal is very simple. You don't need many stuffs to do it. The ingredients: - Cucumber - Carrot - Shallot - Chili - Salt -Vinegar - Sugar All you have to do is, you just have to chop cucumber and carrot into a small dice, and llalso chop the onion into a small size. After all, you can put them into a bowl and mix them together with salt, sugar and vinegar sufficiently. Taste it. If you feel the taste is good enough, you can put it into a jar and keep it in the fridge for several minutes before you eat it. Or you can eat it right away without keeping it in the fridge first. I...

Baso Jumbo One of favorite Indonesian's meal is meatball or Bakso or Baso. We can find that food in every place, city or town. Whenever you go, in every meter you can meet Baso. Baso itself has its own name or made. It depends on who made Baso, who is the owner, and where they're from. For instance, if the owner is from Wonogiri, Central Java, the name of Baso is Baso asli Wonogiri or Originally Wonogiri Meatball. How about the taste? Absolutely different one to another. In Indonesia, everyone loves Baso. Who doesn't? From kid to adult likes it. We can eat it just for a meal or main dish. Year by year, Baso seller made many innovations by selling Baso. It's not only the original or usual Baso, but also the name, shape, and Baso looks like. Baso Beranak, Baso Jumbo, Baso kerikil, Baso Aci, are one of the name of it. And people are very enthusiastic to try the new one.

In every occasion, everybody must or need to do handshake after or before meeting. A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp one of each other's like hands. Using the right hand is generally considered proper etiquette. Customs surrounding handshakes are specific to cultures. Every country has it's own way to do a handshake, and mostly the way people do that only one hand grasp another hand. But In Indonesia, there are two ways to do a handshake. The first way is just the same as how people do it, and the other way is just a custom and cultural. The younger people have to put the the older hand to the lip or forehead. No matter what their job, position, rich, or poor is. It means a respect. Some people apply that in informal and formal situation. 

Everybody in this world needs to be healthy and people have done many ways to do this. Some people go the the doctor to check their health to be always good in body and soul, and the others do the alternative ways. In Indonesia, there are some medication (or therapy thing) and choices to make our body stays health, or at least be well. One of the way is by doing fish pedicure. Indonesian people call it "Terapi Ikan" or fish therapy. Some Indonesian people believe that by doing that therapy, it can relax their feet and body. Few years ago, fish therapy was so popular in Indonesia. It was very easy to get that because people can find it in nearly of big mall in Indonesia. It became the trending at the moment. But when the trend has gone, people can't find it at the mall, none of the mall. Yet, Indonesian people can still find it in a few village that have good waters or fish cultivation. Why people would like to do this? The answer is because they want to fee...

Indonesia is a big country and has many districts in every province. Some districts have had a modern sanitation, but the others are still having traditional stuffs for sanitation things. In this modern era and sophisticated technology nowadays, in some districts (or village) in Indonesia, there are families still having or even using an ancient well for their sanitation stuffs. They are not using shower or tap for taking a bath, washing the dishes, and washing the clothes in their bathroom. But they still use a well for getting water which come from the bottom of the ground, natural water without any filtering. In Indonesia, it's called Sumur Kerek or Sumur Timba (Kerek or Timba Well). This well has diameter 60-70 cm for the top of the well using thick concrete. While for the depth of the well, it could be 2 to 3 meters. To get the water from the inside of the well, things that is needed are bucket, pulley, long rubber straps, and 2 bamboos that be assembled in two sides on...