One of the typical cuisine of Ternate, Indonesia is gohu ikan.

Ternate is a group of islands of North Maluku, Indonesia, one of Ternate cuisine is gohu ikan.
Reference to be complete: gohu ikan. You see, if only called gohu, then the meaning is rujak young papaya is also popular in North Sulawesi. Ternate Gohu typical fish is made from raw tuna. No wonder many people call it as sashimi Ternate.

Apparently, in the coastal areas of North Sulawesi - for example in Bitung - can also be found serving like this. His name is just reversed: gohu fish. Perhaps this is the freshness of the dish that made the name which means rujak gohu.

Generally, in Ternate, gohu fish made from tuna (yellowfin tuna = Thunnus albacares). When the tuna was not in season, tuna (skipjack) can also be used - even if the texture is not as smooth as tuna.

Fresh tuna meat (read: raw!) Diced, washed, then coated with salt and lemon juice cui (a kind of fragrant lemon and deep yellow-orange), then mixed with roughly chopped leaves balakama (basil). Red onion and cayenne pepper (called rica gufu in Ternate) coarsely chopped, and saute with a little coconut oil. Hot coconut oil with onion and chilli was then poured into a piece of raw tuna. Then sprinkled with fried groundnuts rough ground.

If you've been to Hawaii, you probably never met a dish like this. The difference, there did not use cayenne pepper and fried peanuts. Hawaii kemanginya alias replaced with wakame seaweed. This popular dish in Hawaii with onopoke name.

I also never found a very similar dish with this fish gohu - minus the cayenne pepper - in General Santos City, southern Philippines. There, this popular dish called kinilauw. Apparently, the fish dishes such as Ternate gohu has become typical or traditional island communities. Kinilauw wearing only a cut of tuna cube, covered with salt, mixed with roughly chopped onions and tomatoes, and lime juice dikucuri.

Gatang Kenari
Talk about culinary Ternate, most people would immediately call gatang kanari (crab crab crab crab =). In the past, I've tasted a crab that looks like this ancient animal. Now, crab crab is listed as protected animals. Strangely, there is still ambiguity to enforce this rule. It is said, for the sake of tourism, a few restaurants in Ternate get special permission to serve food from the crab crab.
Surprisingly too, there are two Presidents of the Republic of Indonesia (I noted his name for personal gain!) Are very fond of crab crab. Local government officials were reportedly often carried by the crab-crab to their superiors in Jakarta - as if the rules on environmental protection does not apply to the officials.

Crab crab prices are quite expensive. Super-size (about 2 pounds of live weight), valued around Rp. 350 thousand. For the rich, so prices are meaningless. Understandably, one kilo of Wagyu beef cost about Rp. 700 thousand. That is, the price of crab crab is so "cheap" will not save it from extinction.

Some restaurants often claim that they provide the crab crab cultivation. This is a hoax. Crab crab ditangkar difficult. Now, most of the crabs caught in the wild canaries in Halmahera, and then sold to a special restaurant in Ternate.

Crab crab is a smart land animals picking and peeling coconuts, and make their favorite foods. That's why crabs are considered more tasty crab and sweet crab meat than usual.
Please, do not believe in this myth. My recollection is - based on experience of eating it decades ago when the animal is still legal - hard texture, and it was a bit uninteresting. For me, crab Tarakan which weighed about one kilogram much more sweet and smooth texture. The price was certainly cheaper.

When he stopped to Ternate yesterday, I got hosted by a family who were to hold the wedding event. In a luncheon, I saw a long lontong and yellow rice is provided at the dinner table. Komo Lauknya fish (tuna) grilled with a variety of sauces, among other things: pickled sauce, soy sauce, and peanut sauce. Ternate people's favorite vegetable is eggplant fofoki alias. Baked or fried eggplant, halved, and then given a coconut milk sauce topping.

Sauteed kale and papaya flowers are popular in North Sulawesi general also served in Ternate. There is also ULAK-ULAK very similar to Karedok in Tatar Sunda. Ulak-ULAK wearing cabbage, long beans, cucumber, red onion, chili - all raw and finely chopped, then doused with peanut sauce and lemon juice cui. There is no feeling like the most Karedok kencur Sundanese. But, feeling generous red onion taste pretty sour-spicy.

In that event, I am very impressed with boboto fish. In Java, the name almost similar, ie Bothok. In Ternate, boboto can be made from fresh fish or smoked fish, and also can be made from chicken meat. Fish or chicken with a mixture of finely chopped walnuts (diulek some subtle, some coarsely chopped), wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. Canary really make sense of this dish can not be forgotten.

Almost all involve cooking Ternate walnuts - both as a spice ulek, and coarsely chopped. Understandably, North Maluku is an important producer of walnuts. Pidis sour fish sauce (spicy!) Also use chopped walnuts. There is also a popular drink with the name guraka water (water ginger) with a sprinkling of chopped walnuts on top. Sprinkling walnuts on this guraka water reminds me of the French tradition that sowed sangraian pine-nuts in hot tea. Walnuts give extra savory flavor.

Pupeda
Ternate has a tradition of great food after Friday prayers ended. Usually, the mosque of people rushed home to gather with family lunch. Some more hilarious stalls go eat with friends.
One of the lunch tradition on Friday is eating pupeda (in Maluku and Papua called papeda) - namely sago cooked with water, shaped like a glue-like starch. Pupeda generally eaten with fish sauce soru. Who cooked for the sauce is usually a fish soru Afternoon (smoked with fire gonofu aka coconut fiber). Soru is acidic. Clear liquid, with a sour-spicy tones, and the smell of fish Smokey asr. Hmm, impressive.

Behind Gamalama Market, there are several popular pupeda shop for the citizens of Ternate. In the shops, in addition soru sauce, also available a variety of side dishes on the table provided. Similarly pupeda and kasbi (boiled cassava), sweet potato stew, and boiled bananas - all provided at the table. The guests ate buffet style, and to pay Rp 25 thousand per mouth full.

Pupeda eaten with gravy soru. While other carbohydrates eaten with a vegetable wax (vegetable in Jakarta known as egg Terubuk), grilled fish, fofoki coconut milk, vegetables GARO (sauteed kale and papaya flowers), and others.