This post is made especially for whoever you are that need information about foods in Indonesia.
There are many kinds of delicious foods in Indonesia :
To start, one of Indonesian famous dessert and you can find it easy:
Es Cendol & Kacang Merah (Left Pict) is mixed ingredients from Red Bean, Cendol and Black Jelly.
This Dessert use Brown Sugar and Coconut Milk as their base . . the taste is really good and fresh!
Es Campur (Right Pict) is made from similar like Es Cendol & Kacang Merah, however they use shave ice and syrup as base. . so you can imagine, the sweetness,softy and cool combine together! Heaven! haha
Next, one of the famous chicken dishes that others country may have, but trust me! it taste different!
Fried Chicken (Left Pict) : In most places, they marinated with Indonesian Traditional Herbs (Turmeric, ginger etc).
Grilled Chicken (Right Pict) : If you can find a correct spot, you will find a chicken that is grilled with Charcoal!! you can smell it in your chicken! It's really different! Some of restaurants use chilli, sweet soy sauce or honey for marinated and some of them use herbs.
Satay Padang (Left Pict) is one of the traditional foods from Padang City, however you can find it in most of big cities. . it is basically beef or chicken grilled / skewered and use peanut sauce with some herbs. .
Next,
Pindang Patin (Right Pict) if you like something sour and a little bit spicy. . this is the One! Pindang is their actual dish name and Patin is kind of fish, some of restaurants provide beef, squid and others to change the fish if you don't like it :D
Move on to our next culinary, you can find it easily in most of cities in Indonesia at night. . We called it "
Martabak Manis" the taste is similar with pancake. For the first, they only have one base: Vanilla / Plain, and they will put different topings in it (Peanut, Cheese, Srikaya, Chocolate Sauce, etc). Now, there are many varieties of base, like photo below: (Mocca Flavour, Pandan Flavour and Chocolate Flavour)
Next, I personally think that it is really hard to find following dishes in Big Cities (Mall or Plaza) because it is really traditional. . (
Laksa, Burgo and Laksan)
These 3 dishes has similar taste, the differences are in their shape of filling and soup.
For
Laksa (Left Pict) : Longer Rice Vermicelli and they curry or asam as in their soup. .
Burgo (Mid Pict) : Layer of thin rice vermicelli and they use coconut milk as their soup.
For the last,
Laksan (Right Pict) : Thick Rice Vermicelli with Curry + Coconut milk as their soup . .
Mie Aceh (Left Pict): If you are really like spicy and noodle, this is a must try dish! as their name from Aceh City . . They create a dish that is rich of herbs and spices!
Gado - Gado (Right Pict): I personally this dish as Indonesian Salad! The differences between western salad and this in their sauce. . usually western people only use olive oil or mayo in their salad, on the other hand Indonesian people use mixed of peanuts. Gado - Gado is combination of some vegetables, mixed with peanuts sauce.
End for now. . I'll add more if I have time to taste and take a pict of it ^.^
For you who want to give suggestion and help about foods that I haven't mention in this post is very welcome!!
