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Chicken Noodle Soup (Mie Ayam Pangsit)
I don’t know if you haven’t noticed Mea’s and my motto for this little blog, you’ll know that noodle soup play a huge role in our lives (A for drama! ;)). So, I am rather excited to share this recipe (I’m sure it’ll be one of many). I made this when my mom, brother, his gf and grandfather came over for lunch a few days back. And I didn’t hear them complaining. My grandpa even went so far as saying it’s similar to a bowl of noodle soup from Bakmi GM (a very prominent noodle soup restaurant in Indonesia). So, what is it about noodle soups? To be honest, I…
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Indonesian Style Chicken Congee (Bubur Ayam)
Has anyone seen the new Disney movie Raya yet? My boys and I have, multiple times. And for my oldest, it’s all he talks about (after Minecraft, of course). Southeast Asians, if you’re debating with yourselves if you should see it, I say go ahead. It’s beautiful. For me, it was a way of introducing a little something of my roots to my boys, who were born and bred in Europe, thus having little knowledge of the Indonesian/Asian culture. I absolutely enjoyed spotting the little cultural Easter eggs in the movie and explaining to the boys what they meant and why people in Southeast Asia do it. But enough about…
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Eggplants in Chilli Paste (Terong Balado)
Okay, where do I start with this dish? That’s just it – I’m always out of words when it comes to anything balado. Ah, let me first explain what balado is. It is essentially chilli mixture. It’s tangy, sweet-ish and, of course, spicy. It originates from West Sumatra (Minang), Indonesia. The cool thing about this balado is, once you have the basic chilli mixture down, you can add virtually anything to it. There’s egg balado or dendeng balado, just to name a few – the closest I can translate dendeng to is probably jerky. Or in this post’s and recipe’s case: terong, eggplants. Typically, Chinese eggplants are used for this…
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Pork Belly with Kecap Manis Sauce (Babi Kecap)
Can we all just agree that pork belly is underrated? It’s actually quite economical, at least where I live and it’s packed with flavor. When I was a little girl living in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population on Earth, you don’t find pork readily available, so I truly didn’t know what I was missing. Enter, my years in Singapore and Vienna and my tastebuds sang! Anyway, I like this recipe a lot because of its flavors, moreover it comes together so quickly. My kind of recipe! 😉 Like a lot of recipes out there, there are a lot of versions to this one, every household will have…
