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 ML> I forget if the front half or the back half of the train
 ML> goes to the airport, and next time I try that way, it will
 ML> only be with someone who fluently understands crackly train
 ML> announcements in a weird dialect. Until then, I take the
 ML> eastern route.
 NB> Wise choice... :)

I did goof up with Lilli once and went a couple stops wrong
before correcting, which I did not by going to the last known
good point (and risking screwing up again) but by going all
the way in the other direction, which also involved a change
of train and was not ideal.

 ML> That's somewhere between funny and funny funny. It is kind of
 ML> incredible to me that one can't tell the difference between
 ML> an olive and an eyeball.
 NB> Seemed to me at least the slightest bit odd... looked similar in the
 NB> dim light, had a somewhat funny texture...  Tale was told somewhat as a
 NB> cautionary to not make assumptions based on supposed similarities, as
 NB> I remember... and perhaps also somewhat as a reminder that one might
 NB> have to be flexible in dealing with unfamiliar situations...  ;)

Hum, sounds farther fetched now.

 ML>> If not, they'll be lost to the TV eventually anyway.
 NB>> Or the equivalent...
 ML> It'll always be "tele""vision."
 NB> Probably.  :)

Speaking of which, I am more confused by my new eyeglasses
than ever and have gone back to my old tentative and
exploratory ways until things settle down. Apparently you
can television, but you can't tell it much.

 ML>> I'll eat cheese and fried zucchini if that's all that's available
 ML>> - if I'm hungry enough!
 NB>> Hunger is the best spice yet...  ;)
 ML> I doubt anything including imminent starvation could convince me
 ML> to eat most zucchini preparations. Cheese, well, I am favorably
 ML> inclined toward it in the first place and can easily be convinced
 ML> to give it a chance even if it tends to kick me in the gut.
 NB> That's what pills are for... ;)  And fried zucchini is one of the
 NB> nicer forms, besides...  :)  

Yes. Frying is a wonderful thing. My fondness for tofu was
potentiated by my having had various fried forms of it.

Gudangan
Cat: Javanese, side
servings: 3 to 4

Bumbu [spice mixture]
4 sm red chilis
1 clove garlic
3 lime leaves
1 thumb-sized piece of kencur*
1 Tb gula jawa (palm sugar)
1/2 ts salt
1 young coconut, grated
Vegetables
4 to 6 c raw bayem (amaranth)
1 c bean sprouts
1 c long beans, chopped into 1" pieces
2 carrots, thinly sliced

* lesser galangal

Steamed vegetables mixed with a spicy grated-coconut
concoction make this a favorite at Warung Seniman. Also
a traditional part of the tumpeng [rice mountain] at a
slametan [ritual feast].

Crush the bumbu ingredients together well, using a
large lemper. Add grated young coconut and mix well,
using your hands. Steam bayem, beans, and sprouts
for a few seconds.

Set out the vegetables on one plate and the grated
coconut mixture in a bowl. Javanese eat this with
their fingers ("dipulug"). They mix vegetables and
coconut on their plate thoroughly together through
their fingers. Serve with tahu/tempe goreng (fried
tofu/tempe) or hard-boiled eggs cut in half.
Eat with rice ("nasi gudangan") or without.

Jakartans call gudangan "urap," and they fry the
coconut mixture. Like most things Jakartan, this
does not at all agree with Bp. Wakidi's "lidhah
wong Solo" (Solonese taste).

American notes: Grated young coconut can be bought
frozen in southeast Asian stores, Indian stores, and
sometime in Hispanic stores. Whole young coconuts are
sometimes available, but most of the green ones are a
bit too young; their flesh is too gelatinous to grate.
Old (brown) coconut might work in this recipe if
freshly grated, but dried coconut won't. If you have
only dried coconut, soak it for a few min in boiling
water, and then lightly fry the bumbu to make urap.
I like to eat this with kemangi (lemon basil).

Bp. Wakidi Dwijamartono and K. Emerson, Solo, Java, 1999
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