What I miss the most

If you're away from home, the thing you miss the most (beside your family and friends) is the food. Yep, the food. One more time, THE FOOD. Especially the traditional foods from your homeland. And we cannot forget the street foods too.

Yeah sure there's still a lot of new dishes to try but nothing can replace those foods you know by tongue. And of course there would be one or two restaurants in the area you are living right now that sell the traditional foods from where you are come from, but believe me, the taste is still different. There's a saying that if you want to get the authentic flavor like the original, it should be made by the people from where the foods came from. But I guess it's just a matter of using the right ingredients. Because sometimes, they can't find the same ingredients like the original one, so they need to find the alternative. Maybe not exactly the same taste, but close enough to fulfill that craving in your stomach.

So food, the other thing I miss the most beside my family and my friends. And you. Cieeeeh.

If you guys following my Instagram (and if you haven't, please do follow hehe) you must have known when you saw my Instagram stories on how ecstatic I was when I found Gado-Gado in the community market near my office just to got a major heart broken after I openned the box at home and found that it was completely different with Gado-Gado I've known my whole life. #terlalusalad.

And seeing lots of friends uploaded Indonesian foods and its street foods, got me crazy. Oh how I miss those foods in my belly.

I miss the taste of fried rice from abang tektek (what's the english word for this?). The sweetness is blend perfectly with the saltiness, also a bit of touch of spicy wrap the whole thing in a delicious way. And how can I forget the utterly delicious beef rendang? I mean come on. Even the whole world agreed that it's the most delicious cuisine in the world (read here). The flavor is so rich it begs your tongue for more. Try it. You'll see. Also the humble rolled-cilor. Oh my God, I remember eating those while walking home after taraweh on Ramadhan (which will come next week). Don't even get me started about cilor. And pempek (also tekwan) which always reminding me of my family.

The list will just keep go on and on.

I already tried some Indonesian cuisine they sell here. It was... okay. At least enough to pay the long craving I had for months. They also have Indomie here! Yes, one of many other thing Indonesian can't live without (read here). I was so happy when I know they sell Indomie here. But one thing though, the taste is not the same with Indomie back at home. I don't know why. I mean, they must've use the same ingredient because I found it on "Imported" shelf in the market. They said that imported Indomie will always taste different per countries, like Indomie in Saudi Arabia taste different with Indomie they imported to Germany. Now I believe it, because here in Philippines, the taste is different with the original. But I don't know about the other countries whether it tastes the same or not.

Yesterday I even decided to watched on Youtube about Indonesian food which I know now was a WRONG DECISION! I thought I could bear it, I was wrong. I'm sorry guys, I'm not strong enough.

Those foods have a special part in your brain and heart, especially your stomach because you're used to its companion your whole life. So that's the reason why it's one of many things I miss the most.

What about you?