Bogor Palace open for public!! - Happy bday Bogor :)

If you don't know where is Bogor. Bogor is located in Indonesia, on West Java. It's near Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia. And I am from Bogor. I've been lived in Bogor for 21 years. Yep!! All my life, my kindergarten to my college are both from here, in Bogor. Bogor has some amazing place to visit. In this article, I will wrote down events that happen here, on Bogor's 532 birthday.

There will be..

1. Week Exhibitions Attraction
2. Museum Open
3. Bogor Culinary Festival 2014
4. Art and Culture Show
5. Celebrity Chef Demo
6. Capital City Artist
7. Contest and Competition
8. Bogor Palace Open

Gedung Kemuning Gading

There're several contest and competition such as eating competition, little idol contest, stand up comedy competition, band parade contest and also dance competition. It's located in Gedung Kemuning Gading, Kapten Muslihat Street #21, also included in Bogor Parliament/DPRD complex. The building often used for cultural events. For contest and competition you can register to Anwar Reza (0852-8371-0802) or Gilbert (0812-8461-6207).

Bogor Palace

Bogor Palace Open is one of the most anticipate event that allows public to enter and see inside the palace. The palace has great architecture and a wide palace grounds with deers. The deers was brought by Dutch when they colonize Indonesia. It was built on 1744 and rebuilt again after earthquake from Mount Salak volcanic eruption. Also it's connected to Bogor Botanical Garden, actually it's the place grounds too. It means, the palace is huge with botanical garden as the palace grounds. (source: Wikipedia)

You can register for Bogor Palace Open on June 2nd - June 14th, 2014. The program will be on June 9th - June 14th, 2014 (except Jun 13th, 2014) at 8 AM till 3 PM. You have to be on yard of Bogor Parliament/DPRD building half an hour before the program because you have to re-registration. 

This events are made to celebrate Bogor's 532 birthday and it's held by Department of Culture and Tourism Bogor. If you happen to be in Bogor this week, you can join the events ^^

(source: Radar Bogor Newspaper, Mei 31th, 2014)

How to choose safe and clean food from street food vendor?

Do you know what is roadside hawker? Usually they are street food vendor, but sometimes they also sell clothes and tools. Sometimes they disturb the traffic and cause traffic jam. But they are very common in some Asians countries, like Indonesia, India, and others. What we love about them, they sell some good food and in some areas they are like traditional hawkers. It really shows the culture side of the country. Maybe they sell good food, but you must be careful with the health issue. Here I am gonna give you some tips to choose the street food vendor.

1. Buy food from clean street food vendor. Because the environment where food is made affecting food hygiene.
2. Don't buy it, if it don't have container and not placed on the table. 
3. Make sure the canteen, or any place where the hawkers is, are clean. Don't buy food near the garbage/ trash can.
4. Buy food from healthy hawkers. We don't want to get sick right?
5. Make sure the hawkers hold the food with tools or containers. It's not hygiene when the hawkers hold the food with their bare hands.
6. Choose cooked food. Make sure it cooked perfectly, not raw.
7. Buy food which is displayed, stored, and placed good and take notice if it's hygiene or not.
8. If we buy food with broth, make sure the broth placed separately.
9. The food consumption must be right.
10. Buy food which is safe from biological harm, chemicals, also secure from hair, glass shard, and also pebbles and dust.

Street food vendors in Jakarta. (source: Wikipedia)

Make sure you buy food from clean vendors. If you are not so sure, just buy it from shop/store. Thank you for reading this article  ^^

(source: Radar Bogor Newspaper, Mei 31th, 2014)