My First Food

@Mrlnvk (432)
Italy
February 20, 2022 6:08pm CST
This is the very first food that I learnt how to cook it. It called Dendeng. It wasn't as perfect as my mom cook it but it tasted good - and yes, it's spicy. I wish I can learnt more how to cook Indonesian food before. I was so spoiled back then, it's very rare I spent time on the kitchen with my mom. Then right before pandemic I decided to marry and living abroad and missed her food so much. Hopefully pandemic will go away soon so I can tasted her food again
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askme123
@askme123 (6150)
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21 Feb 22
The food in the picture looks very spicy. Congrats on the wedding.So how is married life?
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Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
Marriage life went well yet still feel lonely for not having friends in this country. But luckily life brings me a little boy who can be my best friend forever
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askme123
@askme123 (6150)
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21 Feb 22
@Mrlnvk Congrats Was he born during the pandemic. After the pandemic you can go back to visit your other family.
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Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
@askme123 yes, he was born on Oct last year when Delta varian just came in Europe. Pandemic really makes everything harder, hope this pandemic will pass soon. And btw that food isn't so spicy as it looks, the redness come from tomatoes also
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Kayla Tsukino
@kaylachan (69827)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Feb 22
It's pretty much gone, it's now about what risks you're willing to take as a person. And, of course what restrictions (if any) your country has for travel.
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Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
The country where my parents are living put so many restrictions, that's how I end up more than 2 years haven't visited them yet
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471459)
• Switzerland
21 Feb 22
Are you planning to go back to your country to live or just to visit?
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471459)
• Switzerland
21 Feb 22
@Mrlnvk - I thought you planned to go back to your country. We do not plan to move anymore.
Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
No no, just visit. My husband is working in Italy so I am living in Italy now but I wish to visit my family and my friends in Indonesia - hopefully soon
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Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
@LadyDuck you were moving in another countries also before?
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solxee
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
21 Feb 22
Is that fish?
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Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
Nope, it isn't. It's beef, you can also made it with the heart of cow. I prefer with the heart actually than meat. But both of them are delicious
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solxee
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
21 Feb 22
@Mrlnvk heart? Uhm, no thanks.
Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
@sol_cee hahahaha yes, it might be sound eww but it wasn't that bad actually but yes some people still prefer Dendeng made with meat also
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Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
21 Feb 22
Looks like a pork clop.
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Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
21 Feb 22
@Mrlnvk To me, meat is meat. I can’t remember when I last ate meat.
Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
I nevet tried it yet but this one was using beef
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Sharon Elton
@sharonelton (28882)
• Lichfield, England
21 Feb 22
First food I learned how cook was probably a boiled egg, but I don't eat them any more!
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Sharon Elton
@sharonelton (28882)
• Lichfield, England
22 Feb 22
@Mrlnvk I'm on a macrobiotic diet.
Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
22 Feb 22
@sharonelton ah I see, how long you have been on this diet?
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Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
Why not? You have problems with eggs?
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (139742)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 Feb 22
The food looks really good. You will soon be an expert in everything that you make.
Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
Thank you!! I am still learning to cook but yes, hopefully I can be an expert at least as good as my mom
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Thelma
@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
21 Feb 22
I know how you feel missing the food your mother cooked and living in a foreign country. When I got married and came to Germany, I only knew how to cook 2 Filipino food and was missing my mothers cooking. I felt homesick, too. Then I learned how to cook through cooking books that I bought. You can search on you tube how to cook your Indonesian food.
Rashna Gandhi
@Rashnag (30592)
• Surat, India
25 Feb 22
Looks good. Hope you enjoyed eating it too. Ya we all hope that pandemic ends soon. Hope you get to meet your mom soon and enjoy her yummy food. Take care
ihasaquestion
@ihasaquestion (8275)
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24 Feb 22
This is very popular in Asia, right? Anyway, hope you can come back to Indonesia someday and taste the great local foods once again.
Sammie
@girlboss (66)
• Manila, Philippines
21 Feb 22
Looks delicious tho. Hehe happy married life. You will eventually learn other dishes and your husband and child will be so happy if you're the one cooking their food.
Dini
@Andini (3211)
• Indonesia
21 Feb 22
This food looks really beautiful , i wish you will also expert as your mom in this field
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Marlin
@Mrlnvk (432)
• Italy
21 Feb 22
I hope so yet I am still learning now, my food is still nothing compared to hers