Indonesia

🇮🇩West Java, Indonesia

Boiled Vegetable Salad

Lotek

Sundanese boiled vegetables with peanut sauce, simpler than gado-gado, with kencur flavor.

🇮🇩Bali, Indonesia

Brem

Brem, the fermented glutinous-rice product sold both as the Balinese rice wine and as the Madiun solid cake, is a named traditional ferment.

🇮🇩East Java, Indonesia

Brem Madiun

Brem Madiun is a dry, airy East Javanese rice-wine confection that dissolves on the tongue.

🇮🇩South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Brother Soup

Sop Saudara

Makassar beef soup similar to coto but with different spice blend, served with rice.

🇮🇩South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Buffalo Milk Cheese

Dangke

Minahasan buffalo milk cheese, unique traditional cheese from Enrekang, South Sulawesi.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Cempedak

Cempedak is a tropical fruit related to jackfruit, with strongly aromatic orange flesh that is softer and less fibrous than jackfruit.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Cendol

Chendol

Green jelly noodles in coconut milk with palm sugar syrup and red beans, firm green jelly with fragrant gula melaka and creamy coconut, a legendary Malaysian dessert icon

🇮🇩Indonesia

Chicken Noodles

Mie Ayam

Chinese-Indonesian noodle dish topped with seasoned minced chicken, served in savory broth with condiments.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Chicken Soto

Soto Ayam

Indonesia's most popular soto with turmeric-yellow broth, chicken, compressed rice cakes, and vermicelli

🇮🇩Bandung, Indonesia

Cilok

Cilok, boiled tapioca balls sold from carts with peanut sauce, is a named Sundanese street snack.

🇮🇩Central Java, Indonesia

Coconut Chicken Stew

Opor Ayam

Javanese chicken stew in coconut milk with aromatic spices, traditional Eid al-Fitr dish.

🇮🇩Palembang, Indonesia

Coconut Noodle Soup

Mie Celor

Palembang noodles in coconut milk broth with shrimp and egg, rich and creamy.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Coconut Palm Sugar Compote

Kolak

Sweet compote of banana, jackfruit, or pumpkin in coconut milk and palm sugar syrup.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Coconut Pancake

Serabi

Small pancakes made from rice flour and coconut milk, cooked in clay pans, sweet or savory.

🇮🇩Surabaya, Indonesia

Coconut Satay

Sate Klopo

Surabaya-style beef satay marinated in grated coconut, giving rich aromatic flavor.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Coconut Vegetables

Urap

Steamed vegetables coated in spiced grated coconut, a Central Javanese specialty.

🇧🇳Brunei

Compressed Rice Cake

Lontong

Rice compressed in banana leaves and boiled until firm, served with various dishes as a staple

🇮🇩Indonesia

Cone Rice

Tumpeng

Javanese ceremonial rice shaped like a mountain cone, surrounded by various dishes symbolizing gratitude and abundance.

🇮🇩Central Java, Indonesia

Cow Skin Curry

Krecek

Crispy cow skin curry in spicy coconut sauce, served with gudeg, chewy and spicy.

🇮🇩North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Dabu-Dabu

Sambal Dabu-Dabu

Manado-style raw tomato chili salsa with lime, fresh and fiery, a North Sulawesi staple.

🇮🇩West Sumatra, Indonesia

Dendeng balado

Dendeng balado is made with thin dried beef fried crisp and buried under red chilli sambal.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Dendeng Paru

Beef lung boiled, sliced thin, dried and fried until brittle, then coated in a sweet-spicy chilli and tamarind sauce

🇮🇩Indonesia

Diamond Cake

Wajik

Sticky diamond-shaped cake made from glutinous rice, palm sugar, and coconut milk.

🇧🇳Brunei

Dodol

Sticky coconut and palm sugar toffee, slow-cooked for hours, sticky chewy texture with deep caramel flavor and glossy appearance, a festive sweet

🇮🇩Makassar, Indonesia

Dry Noodles

Mie Kering

Makassar-style dry noodles with seafood and rich seasoning, influenced by Chinese cuisine.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Durian

King of fruits with creamy custard-like flesh and strong aroma, creamy texture with balanced bitter-sweet and ripe flesh, a legendary Malaysian icon, and divisive

🇮🇩West Java, Indonesia

Empal gentong

Empal gentong is a Cirebon soup of beef and offal cooked in a clay urn over mango wood and served in savoury broth.

🇮🇩Makassar, Indonesia

Es pisang ijo

Es pisang ijo, banana wrapped in green pandan dough with coconut porridge and syrup over ice, is a named Makassar dessert.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Es puter

Es puter is made with coconut-milk ice churned in a hand-turned wooden bucket and sold from carts.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Fermented Cassava

Tape Singkong

Fermented cassava, sweet and slightly alcoholic, soft and aromatic, traditional snack.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Fermented Cempedak

Mandai

Fermented cempedak peel from Kalimantan, unique ingredient with sour fermented flavor.

🇧🇳Brunei

Fermented Durian

Tempoyak

Fermented durian paste used as seasoning in Sumatran cooking, funky and complex

🇧🇳Brunei

Fermented Glutinous Rice

Tape Ketan

Fermented glutinous rice, slightly sour-sweet with soft texture and alcoholic aroma, snack

🇮🇩Indonesia

Fermented Rice Pancake

Apem

Fermented rice pancakes, soft and spongy with slight sourness, traditional Javanese snack.

🇮🇩Palembang, Indonesia

Fish Ball Soup

Tekwan

Palembang fish ball soup with vermicelli and vegetables in savory shrimp broth.

🇮🇩Bandung, Indonesia

Fried Fish Dumpling

Batagor

Bandung specialty of fried fish dumplings served with spicy peanut sauce and lime.