A peddler was squatting on the side of the road in Jakarta. Several fruits can be seen in a box on the ground with a carrying pole. This peddler seemed to be hawking fruit. Interestingly, the man was not only carrying and selling fruits but also selling a combination of spices.
In Thailand, it is customary to eat fruits with dips, and I guess it is a similar custom here in Indonesia. A man squatting down had a mortar in front of him, and he was grating something with a pestle in his hand. I didn't know what he was grating, but he was probably making a kind of spicy condiment called sambal.
I had seen sambal being made at a food stall, but seeing that fruit vendors are also making it, I guess they eat it with fruit as well. You might think that fruits are best eaten as they are, but when I think about it, sprinkling salt on watermelon is common in Japan as well.
By the way, Indian cuisine also has a dish called sambar with similar pronunciation. While Indonesian sambal is a condiment, Indian sambar is a soup with spices, so it is completely different.
No
11736
Shooting Date
Jan 2020
Posted On
November 21, 2020
Place
Jakarta, Indonesia
Genre
Street Photography
Camera
SONY ALPHA 7R II
Lens
ZEISS BATIS 2/40 CF