Indonesian Traditional Foods

Nowadays, traditional foods are ignored by more people. For western minded people, consuming traditional foods is not prestigious. Traditional foods are always connected with a hick, unfashionable out of date custom.  And western foods are always connected with modern, cool, tasteful and so on.

 

If we ask our friend, family, and other, I am sure they will not alu-alu, pukis, semar mendem, kue putu, carabikang, ongol-ongol, serabi and many others. They are more familiar with western foods, such as burger, sosis, hot dog, donut, pizza and many others. And we offer them to try traditional food, they will reluctantly accept them. But they will accept western food at once if we offer them the food.

 

Why young people now don’t like traditional foods any more? This question must answered by all of us. Actually, the young people cannot be blamed because western culture penetrates our country strongly not only in way of thinking but also in way of life.

 

I also think that may be our families are late to introduce traditional food to us and our environment. Since we do now the traditional food, we will not enthusiasm to taste them. And when we grow up, we may not like the traditional food because we are not used to eating them. Finally, the traditional food only be story.