This blog is dedicated to my new favorite condiment, Sambal. At my first few meals here, I would hear whisperings of people asking “Sambal, who has the sambal? Is there sambal? Did someone make sambal?” Samba? Somba? What is this thing everyone can’t eat a meal without? Well I quickly figured out this condiment everyone covers everything in is sambal, “a chili sauce or paste typically made from a mixture of a variety of chili peppers with secondary ingredients such as shrimp paste, fish paste, garlic, ginger, shallot, scallion, palm sugar, lime juice and rice vinegar” (full disclosure I had no idea what was in this amazing sauce until I just looked it up on Wikipedia). It originated in Indonesia but is popular throughout Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Singapore. It has that special combination of the right amount of spice and flavor paired with omg I think I just burned my face off. Scrambled eggs? Hit it with the sambal. Rice and vegetables? Sambal. Noodles and meat? Slather that bitch in sambal. I can say for sure I’ll definitely be attempting to make this at home when I return to the states.
Half-Seas Over 