I believe many friends have seen Ode to joy 2. There is an episode called curry curry, which has attracted the attention of many people. This is a song describing the diet in Southeast Asia. It is very lively and lovely. In this song, there is a lyrics: 'Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, curry meat bone tea, Indonesia nine towers'. In this paragraph, curry and meat bone tea are clear to everyone, but it is a big question mark for the Indonesian nine tower. How can architecture appear in a lyrics describing eating and drinking? So what is this Indonesian nine tower? Now let's take a look.
Some people say that the nine storey tower is actually Indonesia's famous tower 'Borobudur', and others say that the nine storey cakes, a snack on the streets of Indonesia, are not. The so-called Indonesian nine story tower in the lyrics actually refers to a spice, also known as' Basil ', which is basil in Indonesian. It is a mature herb every year and belongs to Labiatae. Basil flower presents a multi-layer tower shape, so it will be called 'nine towers'. Because its leaves and stems have a strong smell of star anise, it is called 'Jinbuhuan' in chaocai.
It is said that in ancient times, an emperor encountered a flood on a tour and was trapped on the nine storey tower that had been abandoned for many years. If you are hungry, you can only rely on the weeds on the nine story tower to satisfy your hunger, but you never thought that the weeds taste very delicious. Later, the emperor took the seed back to the palace and named it 'jiuzhong tower'. According to the local aborigines in Indonesia, as long as there is a poisonous snake, you can pick the spice of the 'jiuzhong tower', and many people will pick it on the hillside.
So how do you eat the nine towers? The simplest way is to put the nine tower into pumpkin soup and boil it, and then add a small amount of salt. The pumpkin soup made in this way is very delicious, and it tastes very comfortable in hot weather. In Indonesia, you can encounter a snack everywhere, that is, jiuchongta scrambled eggs. The aroma will definitely make you forget to return. There are also delicious Indonesian chicken soup noodles' sotoayam ', and nine towers are used as excipients.
In addition, jiuzhong tower has some medicinal value, which can dissolve rheumatism, activate Qi and blood, evacuate wind and cold, detoxify snake venom, reduce swelling and remove blood stasis. Indonesia is a large country rich in spices and coffee in the world. The yield of spices here is very high. There are many spices similar to jiuzhong tower. It is precisely because of these resources that in history, Indonesia has long been a place contested by Western powers, repeatedly invaded and colonized.