Raw Vegetable Salad from Ambon

Most Indonesians eat their vegetables raw and only cook them if cooking is really necessary. If there is not enough time to prepare them delicately, chopping and cutting them into fine julienne strips, you simply cut your carrots, cucumber, aubergines/eggplants, cabbage, and so on, into halves or quarters, shred them roughly if appropriate and put them on the table, just as you would do in the West with crudités served with a cheese or yogurt dip. In Indonesia the dip will be one of the sam