What is a swarm?

is a spicy salad bowl made of slices or crushed fruits and vegetables common in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. Typical ingredients include cucumber, sweet turnip, spinach, green apple, pineapple, green mango and Guava. Deep fried soy cakes, fried dough and sepia can be added. The key ingredient is tamarind pulp sauce, lime juice, ground chilli and shrimp. Rojak, Malay for "Wild Mix" is usually served as an appetizer or food on their own. Food is called Rujak in Indonesia. For street sellers, it is common to prepare and sell your swarm from modified motorcycles and mini trucks. However, Rojak is widely available throughout Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia and many families will have their own ways of preparing.

In addition to traditional fruit ingredients, Malaysian and skeletons Ingaporean from the bowl may include fried moldings dough, boiled potatoes and boiled eggs. Also typical are libols of sepia, tofu and shrimp. This type of swarm is usually ended with bakeby crushed peanuts. Pasembur emphasizes tartness with fruit such as green apples. Road jellyfish are sometimes used as a decoration and the sauce is made of sweet potatoes.

There are many types of Indonesian swarm or Rujak like Serut, Tumbuk and Cingur. The typical Indonesian version includes many tropical fruits such as wax or water apple, pineapple, mango, jicama and kedondong. In some cases, the ingredients are crushed rather than sliced ​​and mixed or shredded.

The sauce is the most important part of a successful swarm. Typical ingredients include sugar, tamarind, chilli, and Shrimet Paste. Lime juice and thick soy sauce can also be added. The amount of sweet or spicy can be adjusted to taste. Some versions of swarms are made of sweet potato sauce, peanut sauces with mayonnaise or soaked in fish broth.

pineapple and cucumber are ingredients in common to the majorityWell, swarm types. However, these fruits are juicy and as soon as the sauce is mixed, the salad can be moisturized.

partly because it is a meal that combines many ingredients, the term "swarm" is Malaysian and Singapore colloquial expression for eclectic mixture of things or people. In parts of Indonesia, this salad meal is given to pregnant women at the prenatal ceremony, which takes place during the seventh month of pregnancy. It is assumed that the spicy salad means that the baby will be a boy while the sweet salad announces the birth of a girl.