Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Old Town festival offers visitors rare recipes

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Old Town festival offers visitors rare recipes

Mariani Dewi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 11/07/2008 10:55 AM

Indonesian dancers are seen before performing during Old Town or "Kota Tua" Festival in Jakarta August 26, 2007. (Reuters Pictures)

"Let your nose guide your way" is the method the city's tourism agency is using to gather a crowd at the Fatahillah Park in the Old Town area, West Jakarta, this weekend for the 2008 Old Town Tourism Attraction.

Some 50 people, from amateur cooks to professional chefs, will cook up a storm in the food competition. They will have to cook as close to the original recipe as possible.

"We want to remind people of how it used to be. These recipes have influenced Betawi food up until now," Arie Budiman, the head of the tourism agency, said Wednesday

There are 10 recipes from local original dishes like besengek daging (meat dish) and sate tulang (satay), to bestek (beef steak) from the Netherlands and sukiyaki (soup) from Japan.

To win, a dish will have to wow the taste buds of five judges. Visitors can try the dishes and, after the scoring is complete, take the meals home.

It is the second time the annual event has been held. It will showcase local-made Batavia (old Jakarta) products that cannot be found in modern markets.

There will art performances from local singers and dances, as well as traditional performances of three cultures that influenced Indonesian arts: the Portuguese keroncong tugu, Arabic zapin dance and gambus music, and Chinese lute music and dragon dance.

Twenty antique cars will be on display. Among them are cars made in 1928. Visitors have the chance to ride around the square in a car made in the 1950s. The car cannot go further because of its old engine, which gets overheated easily.

"We want to ignite a sense of nostalgia through all the senses -- through the sight of the old buildings and old cars, and the taste of traditional and increasingly rare foods," Tinia Budiarti, head of the Jakarta History Museum, said Tuesday.

The museums, which are housed in Dutch colonial buildings, will be open over the weekend.

The event will start Saturday, Nov. 8, with the cooking competition, while the musicians and dancers perform on stage. The day will end with a fireworks display at around 7:30 p.m.

There will be more music and dance performances Sunday morning. The afternoon will be filled with prayers to celebrate National Heroes Day.

Arie said he hoped visitors would learn about Jakarta's roots and the event would encourage the private sector to host events in the area.

"We all know the Old Town is one of the city's famous landmarks, so we do not really need to develop it physically. But we need to develop the soul of the place and tell people its historical importance."

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