JANET JACKSON TO LAUNCH NEW LINGERIE LINE

Janet Jackson is venturing into the world of lingerie. The music icon teams up with Australian designer Bruno Schiavi to create a new lingerie range later this year.

The line will be called Pleasure Principle, in reference to her 1987 hit song, and is due to hit US shops in November.

“People have come to me with other ideas, but lingerie is a passion for me, and just like music and acting, I can’t do it unless I put 100 percent into it,” Jackson said in a statement.

Pleasure Principle line of lingerie will become available in November. The line will initially be sold at US department stores for under $40, reports E! Online. Pleasure Principle is due to expand into Europe, Australia and Japan in the near future.news

ALL OBOUT TUMPENG

Tumpeng is a cone shaped riced surrounded by assorted of Infonesia dishes. Traditionally featured in the selametan ceremony, the cone shape of rice is made by using cone-shaped weaved bamboo container. The rice itself could be plain steam rice, uduk rice ( cooked with coconut milk ), or yellow rice ( rice colored with kunyit / tumeric ). The rice surrounded by assorted of Indonesian dishes, such as Urap vegetables, fried chicken, empal gepuk ( sweet and spicy fried beef ), abon sapi ( beef floss ), semur ( beef in sweet soy sauce ), teri kacang ( anchovy with peanuts ), fried prawn, telur pindang ( boiled marble egg ), shredded omelette, tempe orek ( sweet and dry fred tempeeh ), perkedel kentang ( mashed potato fritters ), perkedel jagung ( corn fritters ), sambal goreng ati ( liver in chilli sauce ), and many other things.

Tumpeng dated back to ancient Indonesian tradition that revered mountains as the abode of ancestors and gods. the cone-shaped rice meant to mimics the holy mountain. the feast served as some kind of thanks giving for the abundance of harvest or any other blessings. Because of its festivities and celebraties value, up until now tumpeng sometimes used as Indonesian counterpart of birthday cake.news

NIGHT CULINARY IN MALIOBORO

The cultural heart of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, is a gastronome’s delight with countless restorans and warungs from which to choose from. Not only that, you have the choice of delicacies from around the archipelago available from the street vendors or kaki lima. Yogyakarta’s traditional dish is Gudeg Yogya and can be purchased just about anywhere and at anytime of the day. Sampling the variety of foods available in the area or island you visit is exciting and especially for your palette.

Yogyakarta dishes are renowned for their sweetness. Over the decades more and more people have moved to Yogya from around the archipelago and now you have more diversity in flavours. There are many different kinds of interesting dishes, ranging from spicy to sweet and those fiery dishes that feel as though your throat has been ripped out. Because of the high population of Chinese residents in Yogyakarta, their culinary delights have also fused into the cuisine available.

But when in Yogya, it is the street food that is the most delicious. Everynight after the shops close, Lesehan vendors construct their tent-style warungs. It is great to sit on mats and get to know the locals whilst munching away on some delicious Yogyanese food. The food is cheap and there are the occasional wandering minstrels who will entertain you till the wee hours of the morning. Also, all along Jalan Malioboro mats are laid out on the pavement where the patrons can sit and enjoy the kaki lima food cooked fresh.