Enjoying The Night Culinary Serving of Boiled Scallops - Delicious and Nutritious

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Living in Indonesia is like two swords that can pierce each other. There are many annoying things and also many fun things when living and being an Indonesian. The most annoying part is seeing how severe corruption is in this country, almost all lines or government positions in Indonesia have been involved in corruption. The three state institutions, the judiciary, the executive and the legislature, have also made systemic cases that led to mega-corruption cases that were detrimental to the state. Imagine, in 2011 alone, it was recorded that the state had suffered a loss of around 62.9 trillion Rupiah due to corruption cases. Imagine if the corrupted funds were used for the public interest?

There are annoying parts of course there are also fun as Indonesians. The people are friendly and also have lots of cheap and delicious food and drinks. In addition, the majority of Indonesians tend to be relaxed and chill. The most famous case example was when there was a bombing and shooting case in Sarinah Jakarta, many people instead of being afraid, went to watch casually. Therefore, even when the economic and political situation is chaotic, we will still feel safe to go out and look for food at night.

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Like last Saturday night, I took my wife to enjoy a traditional seafood culinary that is popular in my city, namely boiled shellfish. Boiled clams are one of the culinary icons in my city, many tourists or visitors from out of town come to my city to enjoy this dish.

For some reason, the seller of boiled clams always sells at night even though I like this food to be eaten anytime, without having to wait for the night. The outlet selling boiled clams in my city has a uniform style and selling stalls. Generally, they use simple tents with simple equipment. This culinary is very simple, the shells used are virgin clams or reed shells which are often found on the coast of North Sumatra. Before being processed, usually these shells will be washed first until they are clean so that we are more comfortable eating them. Shellfish live under the sand so the risk of sand getting into the shells and washing the shells can minimize dirt.

After that, the cleaned clams will be boiled using boiled water with spices such as lemongrass, salt, pepper, etc. We can choose the level of doneness of the scallops, whether it is half cooked or cooked. In addition, these boiled clams will always be served hot because before being served to consumers, they will be boiled first.

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I ordered a portion of boiled scallops with the right level of doneness. One plate of boiled scallops consists of 10-12 medium-sized boiled clams and don't forget, a bowl of pineapple sauce as a complement.

I really like this dish, I will remove the scallops using a small fork and then put the scallops in the pineapple sauce. Yumm, the taste is very delicious and addictive. Scallop meat that has a chewy texture has a salty and savory taste because of the boiling process that uses spices. Apart from that, the most distinct part from other boiled scallops is the pineapple sauce.

This pineapple sauce is made using various ingredients such as pineapple, chili, tomatoes, salt, and ground nuts. It tastes very savory and fits perfectly with these boiled clams. It doesn't feel like I've finished one plate of this boiled clam. I ordered another plate, because I was still hungry. For the price of one portion of boiled mussels it is still very cheap, one portion we only need to pay IDR 10K (0.66 USD) and for a drink of water it's free.

Are you interested in trying these boiled clams?

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