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The
sate man comes with his kitchen on his shoulders. Listen for the
sound of his feet rhythmically hitting the mud. He squats in the
gutter and fans the embers of his charcoal fire, turning out sizzling
skewered beef, pork, chicken, turtle meat or mutton with different
sauces, the style varies from place to place. Krupuk, the Indonesian
pretzel, is a big crispy misshapen cracker made from either shrimp
paste, fish or fruit mixed with rice and dough. After being dried
to look like thin hard colored plastic, it unfolds, blossoms,
when fried in oil. Served cold, it's very tangy. The krupuk man
carries on a bamboo pole two huge containers which look like big
milk cans. Since bread is seldom. eaten, being too expensive and
not to their taste, Indonesians use krupuk for bread.
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