Gado-Gado Salad: Taste of Diversity, Celebrating Diversity

When I am in Jogja, I always take chance to eat one of may favorite Indonesian food, a salad called Gado-Gado.


According to Wikipedia, Gado-gado (Bahasa Indonesia) or also called Lotek (Sundanese and Javanese language) is an Indonesian vegetable salad served with a peanut sauce dressing. If you are vegetarian, it can be the delicious food for you.


Picture of Gado-Gado Salad from Indonesia, taken from wikipedia



If you are interested to make Gado-Gado salad, you get the recipe, here.


Because I love delicious and healthy Gado-gado, I write a Fable Short Story/ Flash Fiction of Gado-Gado to celebrate the diversity.
Gado-gado content group of unique ingredients and I use their uniqueness to represent diversity.


To unite does not mean to be the same with others. You must be your best self.


The uniqueness in unity can be beautiful and powerful-- Unity of Diversity.

"Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, Tan Hana Dharma Mangwra", said by Sutasoma, in Purosadha Santa, a Sutasoma Book, written by Mpu Tantular in 14th Century.


"Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, Tan Hana Dharma Mangwra" - Diversity but one dharma

Read my Fable Story of Gado-Gado Salad.

Exotic Nusantara, Uniquely Indonesia

Indonesian Archipelago, South East Asia, consists of thousands islands. Of course, it has various arts and cultures.
Not only in Bali (An island in Indonesia), each area in Indonesia has its uniqueness.

Read following article about Indonesia
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Cat in Java

Cats are the animals which can survive and live with human beings. Since Ancient Egypt, they have became our friends. In many cultures, people respect cats. In Japanese tradition, cat ( manekineko) is symbol of luck.

In Java, even if there are many cats without masters or many people do not care about cats, people respect cat because the saints love cats and people will get bad karma if they kill the cats.

If someone's vehicle hits a cat, he will bury the cat or in the village tradition, they will conduct circle prayer for the cat's death.

I love the cat, not because of magical power or luck charm. I love cat because they are warm, friendly, funny.

I have fable story about : A Deaf Cat with Blue eyes

It is not traditional story but it can be inspirational.