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Contoh essay Compare & Contrast dalam bahasa Inggris tentang perbandingan makanan yang ada di negara Uruguay dengan yang ada di Indonesia.

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Uruguayan Food Vs Indonesian Food - Compare Contrast Essay

Contoh essay Compare & Contrast dalam bahasa Inggris tentang perbandingan makanan yang ada di negara Uruguay dengan yang ada di Indonesia.

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Is it true that Uruguayan food has similarities with Indonesian food?

In the history of football in South American countries, Uruguay is one of the countries
that has successfully competed in Copa America by winning the Copa America 15 times.
However, it turns out that it's not only football that is interesting to talk about. The food in
Uruguay is also no less interesting to explore. Believe it or not, it turns out that Uruguayan food
has similarities to Indonesian food. Empanadas are one of the Uruguayan foods that are similar
to stuffed pastels in Indonesia. The use of rice is also not uncommon in Uruguay in the form of
several foods such as Arroz con Leche, Gallo pinto, etc. However, overall, in fact, food
containing meat is the most important in Uruguay. Although Uruguayan food has similarities
with Indonesian food in terms of stuffed pastels and foods containing rice, the two differ in the
type of food that is the main dish.
Both Uruguayan food and Indonesian food have dishes in the form of stuffed pastels.
Uruguay has a dish called "Empanadas" which are sandwiches or stuffed pastels or pastry
processed by frying or baking. To make empanadas, the dough will be folded and filled with
filling. Usually the filling is cheese, meat, vegetables, fruit, or also huitlacoche. This is the same
as Indonesian food which is usually called "pastel", which is a sandwich or stuffed pastry.
Usually the filling is carrots, vermicelli, and eggs.
Both Uruguayan food and Indonesian food have foods that contain rice. The use of rice in
Uruguay is not hard to find in some foods. Arroz con Leche is an Uruguayan dish that has
similarities to Indonesian cuisine, namely, porridge made using rice as the basic ingredient, but
this dish is cooked with palm sugar, liquid milk, cinnamon, and lemon. In Indonesia alone
"Bubur" is a food commonly eaten as a breakfast cereal dish, made by heating or boiling ground,
crushed or chopped starchy plants, typically grain, in milk. In Indonesia, there are various kinds
of "porridge", such as chicken porridge, marrow porridge, etc.
However, Uruguay food and Indonesian food differ in the main food areas that are most
in demand. The main food in Uruguay is meat because Uruguayan cuisine revolves around
grilled meat. Parrillas (restaurants with big racks of meat roasting over a wood fire) are
everywhere, and weekend asados (barbecues) are a national tradition [ CITATION URU21 \l 1033 ].
INAC (2015) in What is meat in Uruguay? (2017) stated that Uruguay has one of the highest, if
not the highest, meat consumption in the world, attaining 98.7 kg of meat/capita in 2015. From
the total meat consumption, 57.6 kg corresponded to beef, 20.4 kg to poultry, 16.9 kg to pork,
and 3.8 to lamb [ CITATION SLu17 \l 1033 ]. The main food in Indonesia is rice. Rice is a staple
food in the Indonesian diet. The goddess of rice, Dewi Sri, is highly revered in Java and Bali and
because of this divine inspiration almost everything comes with rice on the side – even carb-
loaded meals like noodles or potatoes [ CITATION Edi18 \l 1033 ]. This is because Indonesia is a
tropical country where most of the people work as rice farmers. Therefore, Indonesian people
like rice because rice is very easy to find to be used as food.
In conclusion, Indonesian and Uruguayan food have similarities in the field of food that
has fillings such as stuffed pastels. In Indonesia it is called "Pastel" in Uruguay it is called
"Empanada". Uruguay also has food containing rice which is similar to food in Indonesia. An
example is Arroz con Leche, a food whose shape and main ingredient resemble porridge in
Indonesia. However, in the field of staple food, Uruguay prefers meat while Indonesia prefers
rice.

References
Luzardo, S., Brito, G., Campo, M. d., & Montossi, F. (2017). What is meat in Uruguay? Animal Frontiers,
76-78.

Putri, E. (2018, 9 3). 7 Things You Didn't Know About Indonesian Cuisine. Retrieved from
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know-about-indonesian-cuisine/

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