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2008.08.29

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Ronny

I eat Gado-gado at least once a week ever since I came back to Jakarta :-)

I would also recommend Pecel to the readers. It's not as commonly found as Gado-gado, but it's just as nice (if not better).

Other Indonesian style salads that are worth a try (if you haven't): Urap-urap, Rujak (both the fruit salad, and Rujak Pengantin), and Lawar (Balinese). There are several other similar dishes that are not quite salads per se: Ketoprak (Jakarta), Tahu Campur and Tahu Tek (Tahu Bumbu) (East Java).

cyn

i totally agree, crunchy veggies doth maketh the gado-gado. lol. the versions they make here are usually soggy and limp with an overdose of peanut sauce. it's terribly good with lontong too (compressed rice cake wrapped in banana leaves)

luv0food

Wow, I'm very impressed with your website, not only with the beautiful pictures and contents but with the fact that you've included the real inner parts of Jakarta and Indonesia that most tourists don't care to see. I'm from Indonesia and grew up in Jakarta so I recognized some of those places in the pictures, very nostalgic. Btw, I'm new with blogging and still collecting links to put on my blog and would like to ask for your permission to put a link to yours on my blog if you don't mind. Thanks:-)

Pepy

That is something that i don't have in my litchen right now. Indonesian style mortar and pestle. To get a better taste to make sambal for me :D

chris

What about Ketoprak? And your right about the cashews. Little know that. I'm impressed!

vicong

In Sundanese area (Bandung etc) you have two option Lotek and Karedok.

Lotek is just look like gado-gado (liitle different) the vegetables steam first, karedok is the raw version.

I still prefer gado-gado or lotek but a lot of sundanese absolutely will prefer karedok before lotek :D

this page explain the different better:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Gado-gado

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