Mella Jaarsma recalls a day in July 1998 when, along with six other foreign visitors standing across the Agung State Palace in Yogyakarta's Malioboro area, she watched as a dish of frog legs was being fried in a big wok over a charcoal stove. Passersby stopped their strolling to watch the strange scene: seven foreigners watching their dish being cooked on the side of a street. The dish was then offered to the onlookers.

Mella Jaarsma recalls a day in July 1998 when, along with six other foreign visitors standing across the Agung State Palace in Yogyakarta's Malioboro area, she watched as a dish of frog legs was being fried in a big wok over a charcoal stove. Passersby stopped their strolling to watch the strange scene: seven foreigners watching their dish being cooked on the side of a street. The dish was then offered to the onlookers.

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