Indonesian Popular Foods

Do you have any plan to visit Indonesia? If you dont recognize Indonesia, Bali might refresh bit of your memory. Bali is an island within Indonesia. Prepare your self from culture shock, or even worst food shock. Compare to US or Europe, in common Indonesian people were didnt pay attention to their foods hygiene. But if you go to restaurants or even cook by your self you migh forget about these hygiene horror.

Back to the topic again. Indonesian have wide variety of food taste and style since they were consist of couple big island and ethnic. Some of the food taste were influenced by culture or tradition. But mainly you will find these most popular indonesian foods :

1.Sambal
This sambal is common foods used as addition, this is the most popular foods in indonesian. IT made from crushed chili completed with herbs and spices. But dont get wrong, there is a lot of variety about this spicy sambal. You might find sambal terasi, sambal balado, sambal ikan teri, sambal cabai hijau etc.

2.Satai
This satai is more like barbeque, the popular meat used is chicken or sheep. The meat were cut smaller as dice and barbequed. Chicken meat were usually matched with nut sauce while Sheep meat matched with ketchup sauce completed with tomatoes and onions.


3.Bakso
This is simple foods known as meatball, it could be use fish, chicken or beef.


4.Soto
Soto consist of rice, with specific meat (chicken or beef) and completed with flavoured soup rich of herbs.


5.Nasi Goreng
Very well known as deep fried rice, having wide variety such as using seafood, chicken or beef. Usually you could choose your own spicy level.


6.Gado-gado
This looks like vegetable salad but it use nut sauce instead of mayonaise.


7.Nasi Uduk
Originated from Jakarta, the rice were usually rich of taste accompany with sambal and fried chicken.

8.Nasi Padang
Came from Sumatra island, this kind of foods were famous with its rendang and hot spicy sambal ijo. Rendang it self were meat beef cooked with special recipie.


9.Ayam Goreng
Its naked deep fried chicken without any other spices.


10.Bakmi Goreng
Fried noodle combined with almost anything : seafood, meatball, sausage etc. Theese fried noodle were originated from Chinesee culture but very easily introduced into Indonesian culture since they quickly prepared and easy to variated using vegetables or meats.


And the rest of popular indonesian foods are :
11.Gudeg
12.Rawon
13.Pecel Lele
14.Opor Ayam
15.Mi Ayam
16.Babi Guling
17.Gulai
18.Bubur Ayam
19.Bakpao
20.Asinan Sayur
21.Cah Kangkung\
22.Pepes Ikan
23.Mpek-mpek
24.Perkedel
25.Martabak
26.Sayur Asem
27.Sop Buntut
28.Ketoprak
29.Balado Terung
30.Lontong Sayur
31.Rendang
32.Tahu Gejrot
33.Sop Kambing
34.Siomay
35.Ikan Bakar
36.Daun Pepaya
37.Otak-otak
38.Bebek Goreng
39.Gorengan
40.Indomie

No need to worry when you have to choose foods to eat or to serve whenever you were in indonesia. Just pick couple from the listed foods above and i'm sure you will not have any trouble or complaint neither. Good luck folks, i will explained the rest in another time.

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