Two Indonesian Culinary Entered The World's Worst Food List 2025, Anything?

Indonesian Food (Taste Atlas)

JAKARTA - Two typical Indonesian culinary delights are included in the world's worst food list as of January 2025, the Taste Atlas version. The list is entitled 100 Worst Rated Foods in the World or 100 Foods with the Worst Ranks in the World.

Quoting from its official website on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, the list was determined based on an assessment until January 8, 2024. A total of 385,835 votes were recorded on the list. The ranking in the Atlas Taste is determined through public assessment and ignores bot machines, nationalists, or local patrioticism.

Based on this assessment, there are two Indonesian culinary delights on the worst food list in 2025, namely tinutuan and panic. Tinutuan is ranked 16th with a value of 2.3 stars, while panic is ranked 36th with 2.5 stars.

Tinutan merupakan pembelu khas Manado, Sulawesi Utara, yang biasa diumumkan saat sarapan. Tinutuan umumnya dibuat menggunakan spinach, labu, cassava, dan corn, atau ditambah sayuran-sayuran lainnya.

The vegetables are boiled together with the rice in the pot until they become porridge. This food can be served in a bowl with salted fish and chili sauce.

While panic is also a typical food of Manado, North Sulawesi, which resembles soup. However, the manufacture of this food uses the main ingredient in the form of bat meat.

This food is made by roasting kalelawar first to remove the hair on its body. Then the contents of the stomach are cleaned, and the kalelawar meat is cut small and then boiled.

The boiled kalewar meat is then cooked with coconut milk, lemongrass, curry leaves, onions, ginger, chilies, garlic, and is sprinkled with fried onions. Paniki is usually served with white rice.