Dakon, a Traditional Strategic Game from Indonesia

This game is very much favoured by children, mostly girls, in Indonesia. It is a typically Javanese games which is played when girls come together to have fun. They get really excited all through the game, smarting each other in the process.

Before starting to play, let us tell you the things to be prepared. They are as follows:

A solid block of wood, measuring about 2 feet long, 7 inch wide and 2 inch thick, on which two rows of shallow holes are carved out lengthwise. Each row has six holes. In addition, there are another two bigger holes; one at each end. Both ends of the wood are curved.

As a rule, we must prepare 72 seeds of soursop, to be nut on the 6 holes, each having six.
How To Play :

Let us suppose Jean plays the game with Mary. First of all, Jean is ready to play. She begins by taking the whole seeds at any hole facing her. The seeds then are dropped one by one in the following holes, including in the one at the end, to be later called the "home" hole. On and on she goes, until she has no more seeds in her hand.

To get another supply of seeds to continue to play, Jean must take the seeds of the holes in which she drops the last seed previously taken, then she continues the round. Possibly the amount of the seeds taken will be six. It is not until she drops the last seed in an empty hole that she could stop playing. The game is now taken over by Mary, who does the same round as Jean has just done.

It goes alternately on and on until none of them has any seeds in their hands. All they have to do now is count the seeds in their own home holes minus the seeds still left in her holes; that's the way to count the end result. Suddenly Jean smiles proudly, face beaming after knowing that the amount of the seeds in her home hole, is more than Mary's, Jean the winner, proudly glances at the wry face of Mary, who turns out to be the loser.

How to Make Onde-Onde

Everyone would like Cake Onde-onde. Onde-onde cake with sweet green peas stuffing is very delicious dilidah.
Recipe Ingredients Skin Onde-Onde:

    * 250 grams of glutinous teung
    * 25 grams of corn starch
    * 175 ml of warm coconut milk 1 / 4 coconut
    * 1 / 4 teaspoon salt
    * 100 grams of sesame seeds, washed, drained, sun dried
Recipe Ingredients Onde-Onde Contents:

    * 200 grams of green beans without the skin, soak 1 hour
    * 150 grams of granulated sugar
    Pandan leaves * 1 / vanilla
    * 50 ml of water / liquid coconut milk
How to Make Onde-Onde:

   1. Contents: steamed green beans until cooked, mashed while hot. Mix with sugar, pandan leaves or vanilla, jerang over low heat while stirring until the dough can be formed round kelerang, set aside.
   2. Skin: campue all ingredients, stirring frequently, and given a warm coconut milk little by little. Knead until the dough can debentuk. For the average according to the amount of content. Round and pipihkan, give the batter the contents, close the, round shape again.
   3. Roll while you press gently on each sphere onde sesame. Fried in oil that is not too much heat until cooked brown, remove and drain.
Onde-onde Tips:Keep the dough skin still damp Onde-Onde, cover with plastic. If necessary sprinkle a little water, so good on the skin attached sesame dough.