Indulge in Jakarta’s Soto Betawi: a rich, aromatic beef soup with a coconut and milk-based broth, featuring tender beef and vibrant spices. Dive into a bowl of pure comfort! This traditional dish from Jakarta is all about rich, aromatic flavours and tender, slow-cooked beef. Perfect for warming up any day!...
🌶️🍲 Spice up your life with this savory soup that’s perfect for chilly days! 🌡️👨👩👧👦 Gather around the table with loved ones and savour the rich and hearty flavours of this exotic dish. 😋🌶️ Sup Buntut is a traditional Indonesian oxtail soup dish that is rich and flavourful. Savour the...
Chinese / Filipino / Fusion / Indonesian
That perfect crispy fried tofu absorbs all that spicy savoury sauce goodness! Binondo Style Tahu Goreng is the Filipino Chinese style version of the famous Indonesian Fried Tofu, served in a spicy sweet savoury sauce with sliced cucumbers, peanuts and sesame seeds. If you had noticed a lot of my...
Kuah Bakso Sapi is an Indonesian soup dish made with beef meatballs cooked in a rich clear beef stock served with vegetables such as cabbage and spring onions. The last time I had something similar to this dish was when we visited Bali three years ago in a restaurant called...
Chinese / Filipino / Hong Kong / Indonesian / Japanese / Taiwanese / Vietnamese
Tendons, it’s that nasty looking offal that appears like a skinned appendage, you know what I am talking about. It may look disgusting but once it is cooked properly, the appearance changes and it’s a good contributor of flavour and life to the usually thin stock, but that’s not it,...
Sup Ekor is a Malaysian soup dish prepared with oxtails and vegetables like carrots, potatoes and tomatoes seasoned with shallot, garlic and spices like cumin, coriander, cinnamon, cardamom and star anise. Sup Ekor in Malaysian or Sop Buntut in Indonesian is a popular comfort food in Malaysia and Indonesia, basically...
On our last review I mentioned that we sneaked out of our first day event as we feel like having a full Asian meal with rice and/or noodles rather than eating cocktails before having a night of unlimited booze. The next day event was a similar scenario where we sneaked...
Ayam Bakar is a dish of charcoal-grilled chicken marinated in kecap manis, coconut oil, shallot, garlic, chilli pepper, coriander, tamarind juice, candlenut, turmeric and galangal. After our trip to Bali I was inspired to cook Balinese and/or Indonesian dishes as most of what we tried there was down to earth...
I usually don’t like bread but Asian type baked goods is an exception, it’s just those fluffy light sweet or savoury goodness I can’t resist. When we used to live in the Philippines there is this panaderias even in Malaysia and Hong Kong where you have these bakeries that offer...
Balinese cuisine may be nearly similar to Indonesian but it’s quite unique in a sense since it is more of influenced not by the mainland but with Chinese, Indian and now since it’s a very popular tourist destination it is now being influenced by the Australians, Americans, British and Japanese...
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