
"of course. But I'm sorry, I can't treat you Nisa. Maybe next time" Wendy told Nisa.
"Aahs... Don't mind that. I'll also treat Julia."
"alright. Thank you guys," Julia said with a big smile.
Not wanting to spoil her two friends' pleasure because of her, Julia tried to enjoy all this bustling bazaar. After all, for what is also protracted in sadness, after all Wendy and Nisa are also not much different from Julia. Wendy's family also can't attend today while Nisa's family, they care much more about Rica than she does. The hallway in this bazaar is divided into three long rows. The first aisle sells goods from America, the second aisle from Asia and the last aisle is Europe. Currently Julia, Nisa and Wendy are in the Asian hawker aisle.
"Gee... From the asian continent. Where are we gonna try first?" ask Wendy excitedly.
"Shellfish grilled spicy sauce typical of korea," pointed Julia at a store not far from them.
"I want to eat that one too."
The three of them went to the tavern selling the food they wanted. Moving from one store to another. Which snacks they have not tasted tried all. Starting from Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indian, Turkish and many more. When it comes to food, all the sadness is sidetracked instantly. As they cross the bazaar among the people, Julia's gaze suddenly turns to one store. He took Wendy and Nisa there.
"Good afternoon. What are you selling here?"
"We sell Indonesian snacks, one of which is seblak" replied a shopkeeper girl.
"What's? A sebak? What is a sebak?" repeat Julia but her tongue is not familiar with Indonesian
"Not as hard but as hard. Seblak is one of the most popular foods for most women in my native country."
"Sebb... Sebak... Placid. Duck-beak. Aahs... It's hard, what's his name. Can I try one?"
"Hide... Sure oes. We have prepared a small cup for customers who want to try. Here's how, enjoy."
The girl gave each of the small cups containing one cracker to Julia, Wendy and Nisa to try.
"Hey, look at this Wendy, Nisa. It looks like Febby's hair but it's white" Julia said, pointing out the shape of the wet crackers in both themes.
"Haha... You're right Julia. Especially when the hair is tangled not because."
"It's so similar."
"Hahaha.." Julia and Wendy laugh instead mocking Febby's curly hair.
"Well... You two base this," Nisa tried to taste as good as that once she saw the two themes eating her. But when it enters the mouth... "Yeah....! It's spicy! It's so spicy!" scorching spiciness.
"Seblak is known for its spicy taste. Actually it's a standard taste. For us Indonesians usually like to add more sambal," with a smile that does not fade the girl put a jar filled with cayenne pepper in front of them. "This is the Sabbath."
"Huh?! What's that much?" asked Wendy who was shocked to see that much ground chilli.
"No, just one or two spoons."
"That's a lot. Is your stomach okay after eating it?"
"Even the more spicy the more delicious."
"If I'd been in the hospital eating that much chili. I really can't eat spicy," Nisa said after asking for a glass of water to relieve the spicy taste in her tongue
"Oh, we have a challenge for the one who can spend our bed so he can eat for free. If it does not run out, it is required to pay. Do you guys want to try?"
"No. Thank ye. I don't want to get diarrhea tomorrow" Wendy said.
"I'd like to buy one but that's standard. It's spicy but I love this food."
"alright. Dinda, one portion of seblak is complete," shouted the girl using Indonesian.
"Okey" replied one of his colleagues.
It didn't take long for Julia's order to arrive in front of her. One serving of seblak is complete with various toppings of sausages, claws, shrimp and squid. Julia ate the seblak. Wendy and Nisa just look at Julia who really enjoyed the food. They don't really like spicy ex especially Nisa.
"What else do you want to order?" ask Nisa and Wendy.
"We've got fried foods like vegetable bakwan, corn bakwan, tofu, tempeh, fried bananas..."
"I want that one," cut Nisa.
"What's? Bakwan, you know, tempe?"
"Yes, that last one. Tem-pe's."
"good. One serving of fried tempeh," the girl gave a plastic container containing an arrangement of flour-clad fried tempeh seasoned.
"What tastes good?" ask Julia curiously.
"That's boy. When I was a kid, I tried it at a restaurant. You guys wanna try?" nisa said.
"Try one dong."
"I want to." too."
"Why are there little peppers here?"
"Oh, it was eaten with the temple. Try."
"But it's a metah chili. Wasn't it cooked first?"
"No. That's how he eats."
Julia tried a snack she had never felt before, and it turned out... "True. it's delicious. I want a serving too."
"Well," the schoolgirl placed a serving of fried tempeh next to Julia's bowl. "Eat with good seblak also loh."
"really?"
Julia tried it and she liked it. Finished tasting Indonesian food, the three of them went on a tour, but before that Julia took the time to buy a sweet dish to relieve the spicy taste on her tongue.
"Hey Julia, what did you buy?" ask Wendy
"Sweet snacks from indonesia as well. What was his name just now? Mar-turbs."
"Not Julia marcabak but martabak," said Nisa confirmed Julia's sentence.
"Ah, that's his name. Looks like I have to learn Indonesian first in order to properly mention this food."
"Where are we going now?"
"To European snacks only yuk. Asian snacks are too spicy. I can't stand eating spicy food," Nisa asked.
"But I like it. Asian snacks are rich in seasonings that make them taste better."
Without feeling tired, they are now trying snacks from the European continent. But unlike in the Asian hawker aisles, not too many snacks that Julia is interested in and again Julia already feels full. He really had a lot of snacks today. While walking around suddenly there was a little girl nudging Julia. Because the situation of this bazaar is getting crowded, Julia has trouble recognizing the little girl who nudged her earlier. It was just the purple sweater and the matching knit hat that Julia could notice disappearing among the crowd.
"Who was that little girl? Why do I feel like she's Adelia? No. gabe. Not likely. He's in the capital now and there's no way he's here. It seems I was expecting them to come so much that I considered a girl of her age as her, "Julia brushed her off even though she started to hook him.
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