Green Seaweed

Biologically, seaweed belongs to the family of algae. Indonesia as a country with most of its area covered in water and hence is home to many kinds of seaweed. The Indonesian Institute of Science has identified nearly sixty kinds of seaweed that can be consumed. Actually they are already familiar to coastal villagers. Villagers already utilize seaweed for cakes through some simple process and various delicious dishes. In larger scale of enterprise seaweed becomes a prospective commodity that already enters export market for long time.
As a tester you can taste one kind of the green string-like seaweed. It is commonly available in both traditional and supermarket here in Bali.

Ingredients:
- 400g seaweed
- 1 small chili
- 1 slice galanga
- 50g grated coconut
- ¼ tsp. shrimp paste
- 1 slice lime
- ½ tsp. salt

Method:

1. Rinse seaweed finely and boil until well cooked.
   
2. Pond all spices by using a mortar and pestle. Afterwards add with grated coconut.
3. Mix well the boiled seaweed with spices above and squeeze lemon juice on to the batter.
   
4. It is ready to serve. (BTN/029)

Mangosteen

Mangosteen is a native fruit to tropical Asia. In Bali the mangosteen has spread out throughout the island and it is easy to find this kind of fruit in the market when it is in season. Nowadays there is new option of hybrid mangosteen where farmers do not need to wait for so long to bear fruit.
Its fruit has some regular segments. Flesh segments inside figures is in accordance with the flower-like segments outside on the bottom. White flesh is extremely sweet. Nearly every segment has a soft seed inside.
The soft seed here means it is edible. It is a breed plant that is already well cultivated by local farmers. (BTN/029)