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Best Bekasang in Sydney
“Fish stomach fermented into condiment—a month of salt transforms what others discard into something essential.”
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Bekasang is a fermented fish condiment from Eastern Indonesia. It is usually found in areas around Sulawesi and Moluccas archipelago. The main component of this food is the stomach of fish that is fermented just like shrimp paste. One manner of preparation uses salt and is fermented for about a month. Another way from Ternate, uses only the stomachs of tuna. There, it is customary to eat with Sago, garnished with lemon and bird's eye chili.
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Bekasang is a fermented fish condiment born in Eastern Indonesia's Sulawesi and Moluccas, where the stomach—that often-discarded organ—becomes the foundation of something pungent and essential. Salt and time, about a month's worth, transform those fish bellies into a paste that functions like shrimp paste in the kitchen. In Ternate, they focus the technique even further: tuna stomachs alone, served alongside sago with the sharp brightness of lemon and the heat of bird's eye chili cutting through.
Order it here when it has
- resourceful use of whole fish
- concentrated flavor foundation
- regional specificity
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