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Just like many fermented food products in the region (e.g. belacan, pekasam, cincalok, budu, and tapai), tempoyak was probably discovered unintentionally; from the excessive unconsumed durian and thus left fermented, during the abundance of durian season in the region.
Gulai is a Minangkabau class of spicy and rich stew commonly found in Indonesia, [4] Malaysia and Singapore.The main ingredients of this dish are usually poultry, goat meat, beef, mutton, various kinds of offal, fish and seafood, as well as vegetables such as cassava leaves, unripe jackfruit and banana stem.
Jajan in Javanese can mean 1) to buy food; or 2) snacks/food for sale, while pasar means "market". [2] Jajan pasar thus means "snacks/food sold in the market".. There are different types of snacks sold in traditional markets in Java: jajan pasar, kue, bolu, and roti.
Bumbu is the Indonesian word for a blend of spices and for pastes and it commonly appears in the names of spice mixtures, sauces and seasoning pastes. The official Indonesian language dictionary describes bumbu as "various types of herbs and plants that have a pleasant aroma and flavour — such as ginger, turmeric, galangal, nutmeg and pepper — used to enhance the flavour of the food."
Masak lemak lada api is a pungent and rich gulai that usually consists of coconut milk mixed with turmeric, giving the dish the characteristic vibrant yellowish green colour, and infused with a generous amount of bird's eye chili (lada api/cili api/cili padi in Malay), which adds the fiery kick to the dish. It is often hailed as the most ...
Sambal belacan A Malay style sambal. Fresh chillies are pounded together with toasted shrimp paste (belacan) in a stone mortar to which sugar and lime juice are added. Limau kesturi or calamansi lime is used traditionally but may be substituted with lime outside Southeast Asia. [63] Tomatoes are optional ingredients.
Lontong is an Bruneian dish made of compressed rice cake in the form of a cylinder wrapped inside a banana leaf, [1] [2] commonly found in Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore.Rice is rolled inside a banana leaf and boiled, then cut into small cakes as a staple food replacement for steamed rice.
Kue cara, savory deep-fried dough with toppings of seasoned shredded tuna, a slice of chili, scallion, and celery. [24] Kue carabikang, a sweet cake made of rice flour, shaped like flower-chapped and colorful. Cenil, rice flour-based small glutinous cake, sweetened with sugar, moulded and coloured. Served with fresh grated coconut.