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[MeBelle]

Fred #122 third picture, what is the food?

Satay chicken served with a peanut sauce.
Most tends to be pretty crap but that restaurant was fantastic.
Satay can also be beef, shrimp. goat and horse.

Thanks...it was the sauce I was after. Spicy? The peanut sauce is presented well.

 

[Indofred]

Fred #122 third picture, what is the food?

Satay chicken served with a peanut sauce.
Most tends to be pretty crap but that restaurant was fantastic.
Satay can also be beef, shrimp. goat and horse.

Thanks...it was the sauce I was after. Spicy? The peanut sauce is presented well.

That one isn't at all spicy but a lot of food in Indonesia is.

 

[Indofred]

People in the cities are generally better off than in the villages but not everyone.
This house is just outside Purwokerto city centre.

A small snail

What do you mean, there's nowhere we can build a shop?

There is a Javanese building called a Joglo. It's basically a roof without walls. Makes a lot of sense when you consider this is a very hot country where it rains like cats and dogs half of the year

I went to a small Muslim school one morning. They were more than a bit serious.
I'm not all that keen on full face coverings and they are pretty rare here but, whatever floats your boat.

 

[Indofred]

A truck, what do we one of them for?

Imagine this bloke selling those thinks on the street in Manchester.

A local owning a decant car out here is rich. That usually means he has a good job so fair chance he's bright. Being bright does not mean you aren't stupid.

The drunken pillock driving this car......

hit this bike

Two dead and one in prison.

This is fried banana with chocolate bits.

There is a church hall not far away. Chinese Indonesians doing their morning workout.

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[Grandma]

Thank you for sharing these photos!

 

[Indofred]

Thank you for sharing these photos!

I just wander around and snap away in the hope of the odd good shot.
About 2,000 more to post.

 

[Sunni Man]

What camera do you use?

 

[Indofred]

What camera do you use?

Several over the time in Indonesia.
The first was a Practika mini I bought for my Asian holidays.
Very small so really handy but it died about six months after I came here.
A few were with an old Nokia mobile. You may notice some are quite poor quality.
Next was a 5mpix Nokia phone that took the ones I'm posting at the moment.
Then a much better Olympus. Nice machine but only lasted a year.
Now I use a Fujifilm S4500. Not top of the range but it's fast to set up so I can get the shots I'd miss with an SLR.
That can be a bit big sometimes so I was using my Samsung note as a back up but I've just bought a little Samsung pocket camera so I always have something handy.
This country always has something new as I found last week on the way home from the conema.

 

[Indofred]

Ciggies are everywhere. They sell them in shops, on the street and even by the single death stick for people too poor to buy a full pack.

Delivery is not what you expect in the west either.

Over the bridge...

takes you to the house....

I wonder if the fish taste nice from that open storm drain that sewage from poor houses runs into.

 

[Indofred]

I finally got a moment to myself where I could wander to the cinema.
Iron man two had just rolled in and I thought I deserved a big screen rather than the easily available pirate DVD,

Super high tech laser display holographic advertising is the norm in small towns here.

Of course no one thought to do anything like build an access to the banners and time boards so they use a ladder. (of sorts)

I want to have a wander around a village again

Blokes wander round selling all sorts. This one has brooms, mops and the like.
The usually attract a small crowd in the villages.

If you wander around a village after about half past three in the afternoon you will see blokes ready for mosque. That means they dress like this...

 

[Indofred]

There is little or nothing by way of care for the mentally ill here so they tend to walk the streets.

A food stand selling fried rice

One thing very common in Indonesia is photocopy shops. If you want something here you are pretty much guaranteed to be asked for a photocopy of your ID card. Home computers are getting much more common but most still don;t have any means to print out files so it's computer rental and photocopy shops.
Anyone going here is lucky in that this shop does both but many photocopy shops are just a single machine and that's it.

Want anything sewing?

A temple on a back street

 

[Indofred]

No mental health care - part two

Like any good mum this lass is protecting her kid from the sun.
Pity she's driving the motorbike one handed to do it.

Every body that needs money out here opens a business. Loads open but never make any money so close quickly. Some put more thought and effort in to get it right and grow.
I'll be giving this one a try. Roast goat, Yummy. (updated - I never did try it)

I only noticed it because it's next door to the barber's shop that I use. Once a month it's a trip here for a hair cut. I'm late going this month so I looked like a bloody hippy. My hair was almost a quarter of an inch long. Thought I'd better get it cut before I voted socialist.

Not all Indonesian are small.

 

[Indofred]

I was taking Michelle for her usual morning walk using the usual route when I noticed this.

Weddings, circumcisions and funerals will see Indonesians but these tents up wherever they can. This time they have covered the walkway that runs between the houses.

They put tables out so they can serve food to their guests

But they have to cook it first

Of course you have to park carefully.
Yes, this is in use on the roads

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[editec]

Strange fruit?

I have little doubt you know what that phase used to mean, right?

 

[Indofred]

I only know it as a song from the film, "Still crazy".
Rather a good film.

 

[Indofred]

Road safety is someone else's problem out here.
A taxi driver using a mobile is pretty common.

A rather nice little restaurant in Purwokerto

common thing here is lesehan. That's usually just a simple table and no chairs. Off go your shoes and you sit on the floor at a low table.

You end up in a little stable like enclosure. That means it's private so you can eat in peace.

You can wash your hands before and after the meal.

It's especially necessary after as you eat like this.

 

[Indofred]

Ah, fish in a pet shop.

Sorry, did I say pet shop? I mean supermarket. These are food. Told you fresh stuf was easy to find out here.

On the subject of fresh food. A few of these chicken sellers are around every morning.
Killed at 5, plucked by 6 and on the road being sold.

 

[Indofred]

I love bananas. Really easy to find cheap fresh ones out here. Mini plantations are all over the place.

Another street food stall. This one has nasi gila (Crazy rice). That's spicy as it comes.

While wandering around a couple of years ago I noticed this little village. Seriously poor place but they all seem to have a TV. Bamboo and cheap wood construction.
Compressed dirt floors.

I was in a place called Purbalingga.
Nice mosque there.

 

[Indofred]

Cutting the rice crop.

Things get recycled here. It's not so much a green thing as doing it is cheap.
This is a common dustbin. Old tyres have uses.

 

[Indofred]

The police set up road blocks to check motorcycle.

It's called sweeping.

They check people are wearing helmets and have the correct docs for the bike.

They ignore the openly stupid things.

If you don't have the right bits of paper you have the form filling, trip to court and fine.

And say bye bye to your bike.

I'm told that Rp50,000 can buy you an escape from all that pesky paperwork but I don't believe a word of it of course.