The Influence Of Chinese Cuisine Cultural On Indonesia

A culinary tradition is a culture bridge.We can understand the human behavior and culture through their culinary patterns.Meanwhile the culinary culture is very closely link to the local ethnic group.Eventhough in our opinion that eating is only a simple one of needs in daily,but in fact the culinary tradition is a representation of an ethnic culture tradition.Indonesia is also known as a country with a thousand islands.In the past,Indonesia,Malaysia and Singapore,Chinese people used to call "The South Sea Regions" by Western Colony,so it can be said that the food culture also have a taste of the area from east to west.Hence,it is firmed directly a culinary culture in Indonesia by its owned uniquely history.At first,Indonesia is under Dutch colony for about 300 years,now it become popular by name as South East Asia.As an archipelagic country riched by natural resources,the Indonesian culture can be said as a typical of the culture of the South Sea area.A culture that is heavily influenced by Chinese culture and India,also western country.After the Ming Dynasty,the Chinese people from Guangdong and Fujian provinces due to population increases while the land is reduced,many people think to imigrate to Southeast Asia to start speculating there,by inadvertently bring a typical Chinese food culture.At the beginning the overseas Chinese formed their own environment in Southeast Asia.Although far from hometown,but they still keeping a strongly Chinese tradition and their very traditional life,as well as culinary culture.Just for surviving,the Chinese Community in Southeast Asia as well as the difficulties of the local language,people are more likely to lean towards their hometown people,hence it was slowly built a Chinese society,that we usually called "Chinatown".In this process,it can be said that Chinese culinary culture is greatly influenced by the culinary culture in Indonesia,by Indonesian and local languanges in China(mainly Hokkien and Teochew laguages)that has many similar vocabularies.For example:some foods like kwetiaw,cakwe,meatballs vocabularies are derived from the Hokkien and Indonesian languages vocabulary by similar pronounciations.It is believed that it was a beginning of an initial cultural exchange.And because of overseas Chinese people in their life also triggering on trade between China and the Southeast Asian region in terms of culinary.Many traditional Chinese restaurant by serving special menus for a livelihood,then that traditional Chinese cuisine has a wider market.We can see,that the Chinese people not only brought a new vocabulary,but also brings clothing materials,construction,culinary and etc from Chinese Culture.At the time of Admiral Zheng Ho went to the Southeast Asian region untill the imigrated people from Tiongkok,a cultural exchanges in between the two countries are very close.Therefore,culinary in between the two countries is also very sticky,A typical Chinese culinary culture(especially in the area of Guangdong and Fujian)is greatly impact from the culinary culture in Indonesia.In a style and concept of culinary,the Indonesian food is very pervasive from Chaozhou,Guangdong and Fujian cuisine traditions.In hundred of years the two countries has been related,even in the two countries can create a very classy culinary combination that called by "Peranakan cuisine/Nyonya cuisine".I collect a lot of data from the two countries in culinary concepts,contents of culinary,cooking methods,and the things about cooking.In the case from the both states of their culinary similarities and differences,and to show the impact of Chinese culinary culture to the culinary culture in Indonesia.