{"id":11794,"date":"2016-12-20T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/?p=11794"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T10:22:22","slug":"tomohons-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/?p=11794","title":{"rendered":"Tomohon’s market, Sulawesi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomohon, city with the highest density of Christians in Indonesia. Here weird traditional beliefs are still thriving and culture is a mix of Christianity with ancient beliefs and customs.
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\nLike everywhere in the world, market is a place to get fresh ingredients for Indonesia’s best and goriest “Minahasa” cuisine. Minahasa is region located in the North Sulawesi, formerly known as North Celebes.
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\nTypical traditional market on first sight
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\nIt’s the unusual ingredients that make Minahasa food notorious, spice pastes, made from recipes handed down the generations, which built its reputation. All Minahasa sauces start from a basic spice paste: chilli, salt, garlic, ginger, turmeric and candlenuts pounded with long pestle.
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\nVariety of fresh fruits and vegetable
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\nExotic fruit – for Sulawesi \ud83d\ude42
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\nChocolate biscuits
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\nLots of different kind of fish
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\nFresh smoked fish
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\nYellow fin tuna
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\nCompletely organic food, antibiotic free, locally sourced, no GMO and farm-to-table.
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\nFresh chicken
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\nWARNING<\/strong>: Here are pictures of raw meat. If you are offended by other cultures or you’re extremist vegetarian or unaware of how raw meat looks, don’s scroll down!
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\nDuring the 19th century Dutch colonials worked hard to eliminate all forms of Minahasa ritual like headhunting.
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\nAlthough Minahasa people left the forest centuries ago, they still eat many of the same meats that their highland forerunners did 6000 years earlier.
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\nSaturday is the day for snake vendors
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\nBoas, pythons … you name it
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\nVampire bats
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\nBlood magic has been banned in North Sulawesi, but Minahasa black magicians still make animal sacrifices at a secret cave each full moon. Magic and the habit of eating ancient forest foods are signs of very strong Minahasa culture.
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\nBat of the day
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\nMost exotic meats from market are delicacies to be cooked at home as a special treat rather than served in restaurants around.
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\nDelicacy – bat’s tongue
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\nRats – bush meat
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\nCats
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\nSaddest “hot dog” section. If you manage till here you should close the tab now!
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\nDogs are bludgeoned on the back of the head with a heavy wooden club to crush their skulls and then flame roasted
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\nDogs come from Muslim areas, where dogs are not kept as pets, or dog farms
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Bloodiest market in Indonesia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11794"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11822,"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794\/revisions\/11822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brajdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}