Indonesia

🇮🇩Indonesia

Fried Meatballs

Bakso Goreng

Deep-fried meatballs with crispy exterior and juicy interior, often served as snack or dim sum.

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Fried Rissole

Risoles

Fried pastry rolls filled with ragout of meat and vegetables, influenced by Dutch cuisine.

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Fried Tempeh

Tempe Goreng

Deep-fried tempeh, Indonesia's fermented soybean cake, crispy and nutty, served with sambal.

🇮🇩Bali, Indonesia

Garam Amed Bali

A Balinese spice blend and base paste of shallots, garlic, chillies, candlenuts and shrimp paste.

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Ginger Drink

Wedang Jahe

Warm ginger drink with palm sugar, soothing and aromatic, popular during rainy season.

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Ginger Rice Ball Drink

Wedang Ronde

Warm glutinous rice balls in ginger soup, a Javanese warming dessert drink for cool evenings.

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Glutinous Rice Triangles

Lupis

Glutinous rice triangles in coconut sauce and palm sugar syrup, sweet and chewy Javanese dessert.

🇮🇩Jakarta, Indonesia

Goat Fried Rice

Nasi Goreng Kambing

Jakarta specialty fried rice with spiced goat meat, coriander, cumin, and kecap manis, popular evening street food.

🇮🇩Central Java, Indonesia

Goat Meat Soup

Tongseng

Central Java goat meat soup with vegetables in sweet soy sauce and coconut milk, sweeter than gulai.

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Grilled Fish

Ikan Bakar

Grilled fish marinated in spices and sweet soy sauce, served with sambal and lalapan

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Grilled Fish Cake

Otak-Otak

Grilled fish cakes spiced with turmeric, wrapped in banana leaves, served with peanut sauce

🇮🇩Makassar, Indonesia

Grilled Konro

Konro Bakar

Grilled Makassar beef ribs with sweet soy glaze and spices, tender and aromatic.

🇮🇩Central Java, Indonesia

Half-Fried Tempeh

Tempe Mendoan

Banyumas specialty of thin tempeh slices coated in spiced flour and half-fried, soft and chewy.

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Happy Soda

Soda Gembira

Sweet soda drink with condensed milk, syrup, and sometimes ice cream, popular refreshing beverage.

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Herbal Spice Drink

Wedang Uwuh

Javanese herbal spice drink with complex blend of spices, warming and medicinal.

🇮🇩Medan, Indonesia

Honeycomb Cake

Bika Ambon

Honeycomb cake from Medan with distinctive porous texture, pandan aroma, and caramel flavor.

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Indonesian Banana Fritters

Pisang Goreng

Deep-fried banana, sometimes coated in batter, popular nationwide snack

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Indonesian Chicken Porridge

Bubur Ayam

Indonesian rice porridge with shredded chicken, fried shallots, and various condiments, popular breakfast.

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Indonesian Corn Fritters

Bakwan Jagung

Corn fritters with shrimp and spices, crispy and sweet, popular street snack.

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Indonesian Crackers

Kerupuk

Various Indonesian crackers made from tapioca and different flavorings, essential side dish.

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Indonesian Curry

Gulai

Indonesian curry with coconut milk and spices, can be made with various meats and vegetables.

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Indonesian Fried Chicken

Ayam Goreng

Indonesian fried chicken marinated in spices before frying, served with sambal.

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Indonesian Mixed-Ice Dessert

Es Campur

Mixed ice dessert with various fruits, jellies, cincau, coconut milk, syrup, and condensed milk.

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Indonesian Pastel

Pastel

Half-moon pastry filled with ragout of vegetables and meat, fried until crispy.

🇧🇳Brunei

Indonesian Turmeric-Coconut Rice

Nasi Kuning

Fragrant rice colored with turmeric and cooked in coconut milk, traditionally served in cone shape for ceremonies.

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Indonesian Vegetable Salad with Peanut Sauce

Gado-Gado

Boiled vegetables with peanut sauce dressing, tofu, tempeh, and eggs, one of Indonesia's national dishes.

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Indonesian-Dutch Layer Cake

Lapis Legit

Dutch-Indonesian spiced layered cake with many thin buttery layers and warm spices.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Jackfruit

කොස්

The enormous spiked fruit of the jak tree, eaten unripe as a meaty curry, ripe as a sweet fruit, and its seeds boiled as a vegetable

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Jamu

Traditional herbal medicine drink made from turmeric, tamarind, ginger, and other medicinal plants.

🇮🇩Central Java, Indonesia

Javanese Noodles

Bakmi Jawa

Javanese-style noodles with sweet soy sauce and chicken, cooked over charcoal for distinctive flavor.

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Javanese Vegetable Salad with Peanut Sauce

Pecel

Javanese blanched vegetables with spicy peanut and kefir lime leaf sauce, served with emping.

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Jering

Bitter beans (djenkol) eaten raw or cooked, requires proper preparation, crunchy texture with bitter-sweet balance, a Malaysian ingredient, acquired

🇮🇩Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Kalasan Chicken

Ayam Goreng Kalasan

Yogyakarta-style fried chicken marinated in coconut water and palm sugar, golden and sweet.

🇮🇩Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Kaledo

Kaledo is the Palu beef-shin-and-marrow soup soured with tamarind and eaten with boiled cassava.

🇮🇩South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Kandangan Rice Cake

Ketupat Kandangan

South Kalimantan ketupat served with coconut milk curry and snakehead fish, a Banjar specialty.

🇮🇩Singapore, Indonesia

Kaya

Coconut and egg jam, slow-cooked to caramel perfection, smooth texture with balanced caramel-coconut flavor and fragrant pandan, a Malaysian breakfast essential.