GERMAN BRATWURST – highly recommended…

Yesterday I went exploring. The word has a bit of an exotic whiff to it, don't you agree: seafarers explore an unknown coast, and an adventure ventures into the interior… Hardly appropriate for the car journey on 4-lane toll roads to the nearby satellite town of BSD. But I did prepare a map and a written text on what directions to follow and where to get off the toll road. Pounding rain limited the view and on a clear day I might have seen the second exit sign to BSD CITY—the instructions read exit BSD City, take the second exit on the right! That was confusing: highways in a left-hand traffic system would normally not have an exit on the right. So, when taking the BSD CITY exit I realised that it was the first when I spotted another BSD CITY exit some 100 metres down the toll road I had just left…

the German Centre

And the rain was a real non-stop tropical downpour. The roads got flooded in the lower parts, traffic was down to a crawl and I hoped that the floodwater did not hide a major hole in the road surface. It took me a good 40 minutes to get to the road where the second exit would have taken me, and after a few more wrong turns I finally reached my target: the German Centre for Industry and Trade, or more specifically, the Metro Sky Garden restaurant operated by Food Evolution Indonesia.

This company is the producer of what I think is the best bread in Indonesia—I wrote about their bread in a previous post some weeks ago. My present purpose for coming here was no the bread, but the German sausages, the display of which on their website is so mouth-watering. Not only the sausages, by the way, but as I'm particularly partial to sausages, this was my main reason for going there.

After a long talk with Andreas Stokowy, the director of Food Evolution Indonesia, and studying their home-delivery menu, I decided to buy the German bratwurst, mainly because I could compare these sausages to ones produced by other companies in Indonesia.

At home I immediately started to prepare dinner and decided to have the sausages with potato salad and a tossed green salad. In case you are interested, I make the potato salad with extra virgin olive oil, a little bit of red wine vinegar, mayonnaise (Korean), chopped onions and garlic, tomatoes diced, dried crushed red pepper, chives (dried), and salt. For the quantities—tablespoons, teaspoons, cloves, etc—just follow your own taste. I am, for instance, always a bit heavy on the garlic… not everybody likes that.

Back to the bratwurst. They are good!!! Andreas told me that they are made in Bali according to his special recipe. Well done, Andreas! They are excellent! And the best part is that their skin does not pop during frying—the juices and taste thus stay inside rather than being dumped in the pan.

For those who want to enjoy the taste of Germany too, the sausages and other meat can be bought at the Metro Sky Garden, of course, but also at Giant supermarket in BSD and Bintaro. And the bread is available in HERO Kemang.

Enjoy.