Sea Food Online

Typical sites that cater to the need of info, recipe, or just snapshots of Indonesian food and beverage belong to hotels and travel agents. Those don't have anything to do with real food; no one working in that hotel or travel agency actually eats and drinks what they offer to you.

Other web pages containing Javanese and Indonesian food are cranked-up by bloggers, which means you'll get a little glimpse of some food every 5,000 words or so of private ramblings about non-foody stuff, though you might happen to consider somebody's mom's rap as somewhat culinary.

Worse, Indonesian sites are mostly in Indonesian. One out of a hundred is in misleading English (I hope you don't know what I mean, because this really is heartbreaking), and even those are only 10% of all the web pages in 2005. The rest are made by tourists and expats who, with all due respect, despite or because of the obvious sympathetic outlook they show, knows nothing whatsoever of what they're tricked into eating down here by their vicious local acquaintances (or even tour guides, which is a species as exotic to us as to you).

So, as a true-blue Javanese and supposedly just as much Indonesian, I just want to waste my time in the most destructive way; hence this site and its obese food section.

The pages that laddle out varieties of Javanese and Indonesian food, in particular, will get into a leviathan shape soon, since there are thousands of real-life food out there that I have to add to the content piecemealy.

I earnestly hope it would be of some use, though most emails I got so far -- since September 1996 until approximately two cups ago -- invariably said that visitors laughed upon getting stranded here by search engines, which is a major disheartening info to me because what I crave is some sober use to serve (yet, matur nuwun sangêt [Javanese], AKA terimakasih banyak [Indonesian], alias thanks a lot [English], to you for the emails).