So, President Obama has finally gone to Jakarta, Indonesia, his "hometown" of a few years when he was a boy.
He seemed to have wowed many common Indonesian folks, especially when he spoke in praise of bakso (a beef ball spicy mee soup) and satay. He also uttered some phrases in Bahasa, which some pundits dubbed as "bakso diplomacy".
I have never eaten bakso, so this curious cat post haste himself to Seah Imm hawker centre (near Harbourfront) to partake of the bakso at a Muslim stall there. The stall holder said an added dollop of her chilly paste was a must-have.
And so I ate and slurped away. It was good, and spicy. How did Obama finish his? Or did he?
As his predecessor of long ago, Harry Truman, said, "The buck stops here." In Obama's case, "The bakso stops here". Hopefully, not at an emergency stop, before he boarded Air Force One, bound for Seoul, South Korea.
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