January 16, 2025 | 10:30 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Two Indonesian foods are among the worst foods in the world in 2025. The ranking was conducted by Taste Atlas, an online guide platform based in Croatia, which discusses traditional food, authentic restaurants in the world, critic reviews, and focuses on various world dishes.
Based on the list released by Taste Atlas on January 8, 2025, two Indonesian dishes, namely tinutuan and paniki, are among the worst foods in the world in 2025.
Tinutuan
Tinutuan is also often referred to as Manado porridge because it comes from the capital of North Sulawesi. This typical Minahasa food is a porridge made from rice, spinach, pumpkin, cassava, corn, and other types of vegetables can be added. These ingredients are combined into one dish called tinutuan.
Tinutuan is usually eaten with salted fish and chili sauce. Initially, this food was a vegetarian porridge, but on some occasions fish or meat will be added. Tinutuan is usually consumed in the morning for breakfast. Based on the list from Taste Atlas, this food is in 16th position with a rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars.
Paniki
Paniki is a food from Minahasa, North Sulawesi, with the main ingredient of bat meat. In the Minahasa language, Paniki means bat. Paniki food is included in traditional dishes that are similar to soup. The ingredients for making paniki are bat, coconut milk, lemongrass, curry leaves, spring onions, onions, ginger, and garlic.
The process of making paniki begins by roasting the bat to remove its fur. Then the bat is cleaned, the stomach innards are removed, and cut into small pieces. The bat meat is boiled in water and other ingredients are added, cooked until cooked and the water begins to recede. Paniki is usually served with white rice. This food is in 36th position with a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars.
5 Worst Ranked Foods
In addition to food from Indonesia, the list issued by Tate Atlas contains various worst foods from various countries in the world. Here are the 5 worst foods in the World 2025 according to Taste Atlas.
1. Blodpalt
Blodpalt is a dark brown dumpling made from wheat or barley flour mixed with animal blood. The original recipe uses reindeer blood. But now there are variations using other animal blood, plus various spices, and mashed potatoes. The filling of blodpalt is fried onions and minced pork. Blodpalt comes from the northern region of Sweden and Finnish Lapland.
2. Bocadillo de sardinas
This typical Spanish sandwich is made from a baguette filled with canned sardines. These sardines were previously preserved in oil, tomato sauce, or vinegar. In addition to sardines, peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, lettuce, onions, avocado, olives, boiled eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, yogurt sauce, mushrooms, sauteed vegetables, and olive oil are added.
3. Calskrove
Calskrove is a food created by the Tre Kronor restaurant from the city of Skellefteå, Sweden. This dish consists of calzone pizza filled with hamburgers and French fries. Calskrove was originally intended for people who couldn't decide between pizza and hamburgers.
4. Angulas a la cazuela
This traditional Basque dish, Spain, is made with rare and expensive angulas (young eels). The ingredients are added with garlic, chili powder, olive oil, and salt.
5. Jellied eels
Jellied eels are a traditional British street food that has been around since the 18th century. This food is a cheap and easy way to make a local eel dish that is widely available on the River Thames. The processing process, the eel is chopped, boiled for half an hour in spices, then cooled and the eel will produce its own gelatin.
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