Indonesia Dishes

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Type	Description
Ayam Kalasan		Kalasan, Yogyakarta	Fried Chicken	Fried chicken with kremes (crispy granules).
Ayam Taliwang		Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara	Roasted chicken	originated from Nusa Tenggara (east of Bali), chicken cooked in various spicy herbs and seasoning.
Babi Guling		Bali	Roasted meat	Balinese-style roast pork; comparable to Hawaiian luau-style pig.
Bakmi Goreng		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	(Fried Noodles) served with eggs, sometimes chicken, beef or seafood, with assorted vegetables such as thinly sliced carrots, (bok choi) or Chinese cabbage.
Bakwan Malang		Malang, East Java	Noodle dish	also known as Bakso Malang, meatball noodle soup with fried wontons from city of Malang
Betutu		Bali and Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara	Roasted poultry	Traditional Balinese dishes made from chicken or duck and usually has spicy tastes.
Buntut		Java	Meat Soup or Roasted meat	(Ox-tail) served in clear soup (in which case the dish is called Sop Buntut/Ox-tail soup) or roasted alone then served with barbecue sauce.
Bubur Ayam		Java	Rice porridge (congee) with chicken	Rice porridge served with soy sauce, spices, fried shallots, shredded chicken meat, beans, cakwee, krupuk, and sambal
Bubur Manado(Tinutuan)		Manado, North Sulawesi	Rice porridge (congee) with vegetables and salted fish	Rice porridge served with spices, corn, vegetables, cassava or sweet potato, shallots, shredded salted fish, leek, and sambal
Cakalang Fufu		Manado, North Sulawesi	Grilled smoked fish	Grilled smoked Tuna skipjack fish stuck on bamboo
Cap Cai		Indonesian Chinese	Stir fried vegetable	Stir fried of ten type of vegetables dish. There are two types of Cap Cai, Red and White. Red uses Indonesian Tomato Sauce or Ketchup to give it a distinct sweet flavor, while the white one has nothing added to it.
Empal Gentong		Cirebon, West Java	Meat soup	mutton or goat offal soup from Cirebon, West Java.
Gado-gado		Java	Vegetarian food	a mixture of vegetables, crackers and rice with peanut flavoured sauce. The taste is sweet in Eastern Java and salty in Western Java. It's described in an Indonesian hotel menu as Indonesian salad with peanut sauce)
Gepuk or Empal		West Java	Fried meat	sometimes called empal gepuk), fried shredded beef in sweet spice fromWest Java.
Gudeg		Yogyakarta, Central Java	Vegetable and meat in coconut milk sauce	raw jackfruit that cooked in a Javanese traditional way that originated from Yogyakarta)
Gulai		Nationwide	Meat or vegetable soup	Indonesian curry) characterised with yellow colour from turmeric andcoconut milk.
Karedok		West Java	Vegetarian food	raw vegetables served with peanut sauce from West Java(It's close to East Java pecel, but karedok uses raw vegetables)
Ketupat Sayur		Betawi, Jakarta	Chicken or meat soup with rice cake	Pressed rice cake served with chicken or meat soup in coconut milk, labu, jackfruit, and krupuk
Ketoprak		Jakarta	Vegetarian food	almost the same with Eastern Java's gado-gado but with saltier taste. A popular dish from Western Java. The main difference from Gado gado is that this food is served with bihun, a thin rice noodle, hence the whole dish is sometimes called "Bakmi Ketoprak"/Ketoprak noodle)
Krecek		Java		made from krupuk kulit (skin cracker), potato, and soy beans
Krengsengan				mutton sautee with sweet soy sauce aka kecap manis and petis udang, the Indonesian translation for Black Shrimp Paste)
Kwetiau goreng		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	Stir fried flat noodle, similar to char kway teow
Kwetiau ayam		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	Flat noodle with chicken, sometimes served with pangsi (wonton) and bakso (meatball) soup
Laksa		Bogor and Jakarta	Vegetable soup	the popular one in Indonesia is Laksa Bogor that contains rice vermicelli, beansprouts, and oncom.
Lawar		Bali	Vegetable and meat dish	A traditional Balinese accompanying cuisine for rice and other Balinese cuisine which consists of shredded unripe jackfruit, young banana flower, a liberal amount of pork rind bits, raw pig blood. These are mashed with a plethora of herbs such as lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, shallots, and garlic.
Lontong Cap Gomeh		Jakarta, Indonesian Chinese	Pressed rice cake served with soup	Lontong (pressed rice cake) served in soup, chicken, egg and meat, especially served on the fifteenth day of the first month of each Chinese year/Cap Go Meh
Mie aceh		Aceh	Noodle dish	A rich and spicy noodle dish from Aceh, available in two variations; Mie Aceh Goreng (fried and dry) and Mie Aceh Kuah (soupy). Usually made with goat meat or seafood and served with emping, slices of shallots, cucumber, and lime.
Mie celor		Palembang, South Sumatra	Noodle dish	A Palembang South Sumatra style of noodle and egg dish. With beansprout and fried shallots. The white sauce is made with mixture of "ebi" or dried shrimp that gaves unique taste.
Mie goreng		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	Fried Noodle
Mie rebus		Indonesian Chinese and Javanese	Noodle dish	Boiled noodle soup
Mie kocok		Bandung, West Java	Noodle dish	Noodle in beef broth served with cow's tendons or cartilage
Mie ayam		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	also known as Cui Mie
Mie bakso		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish
Nasi campur (Nasi Rames)		Nationwide	Rice dish	(Mixed Rice) rice with assorted vegetables and meat of choice.
Nasi goreng		Nationwide	Rice dish	(Fried Rice) steamed rice stir-fried with eggs, meatballs, chicken/beef/shrimp, assorted vegetables. The rice is made brown with thick and sweet soy sauce (kecap manis).
Nasi kuning		Nationwide	Rice dish	usually eaten during special event. The rice is cooked with coconut milk and turmeric, hence the name nasi kuning (yellow rice). It is usually served with more variety of side dishes than nasi campur.
Nasi liwet		Solo, Central Java	Rice dish	Usually rice processed with coconut milk and served with chicken, egg, and spicy broth.
Nasi padang		Padang, Western Sumatra, nationwide	Rice dish	originated from Padang where most of the food involved coconut milk and heavy taste of chili. very wide selection of side dish
Nasi pecel		Java	Vegetarian food	Rice served with cooked vegetables and peanut sauce. The vegetables are usually kangkung or water spinach, long beans, cassava leaves, papayaleaves, and in East Java often used kembang turi. Taste best when eaten with fried tempeh and traditional cracker. Popular in East and Central Java.
Nasi rawon		East Java	Meat soup	Rice served with dark beef soup, originally from East Java. The dark color comes from the meaty seeds of kluwak nuts. Usually served with uncooked mung bean sprouts and salty duck eggs.
Nasi tim		Indonesian Chinese	Rice dish	Steamed rice usually served with chicken and mushroom.
Nasi uduk		Java	Rice dish	Steamed rice served with variety of vegetables and meat of choice. It is similar to Nasi Rames, but the rice is steamed. A similar dish found in Malaysia or Singapore is called Nasi Lemak.
Nasi ulam		Jakarta	Rice dish	Steamed rice mixed with kuah semur (sweet soy sauce soup), serundeng (coconut granules) and peanut granules, sliced cucumber and bean sprouts; served with variety of vegetables and meat of choice toppings, such as dendeng daging (beef jerky), omelette, anchovy, fried tempeh and tofu, rice vermicelli, fried mashed potato. It is similar to Nasi Uduk and Nasi Rames, but the rice is mixed.
Oncom		West Java	Fermented food	fermented Tempe.
Opor Ayam		Nationwide	Meat soup	Chicken cooked in coconut milk. Traditionally consumed with ketupat during the Idul Fitri celebration in many parts of Indonesia.
Papeda		Maluku and Papua	Congee	Sago congee, the staple food of Eastern Indonesia
Paniki		North Sulawesi	Roasted meat, exotic food	Bat cooked in Minahasan style
Pempek		Palembang, Southern Sumatra, also nationwide	Fried fishcake	Fried fishcake in sweet, sour, and spicy vinegar sauce
Pepes		West Java, also nationwide	Cooked food in banana-leaf	Fish, meat, tofu, oncom, anchovy, mushroom or any other ingredients cooked inside a banana-leaf package
Perkedel Jagung		Nationwide	Fried dish	corn fritters
Rawon		East Java	Meat soup	a soup of beef. The colour is usually black due to "kluwek" used as the spice
Rendang		Minangkabau, West Sumatra, Southern Sumatra, Java	Meat dish	chunks of beef stewed in coconut milk and chili gravy.
Roti cane		Aceh, Medan, and West Sumatra or areas with Indian communities.	Bread with beef curry	Indian type bread with chunks of beef curry.
Sambal goreng teri		Nationwide	Salted anchovy	Spicy salted anchovy with peanuts
Sangsang		Batak highlands	Meat stew	pork or dog meat (or more rarely, water buffalo meat), coconut milk and spices (including kaffir lime and bay leaves, coriander, shallot, garlic, chili pepper and Thai pepper, lemongrass, ginger, galangal, turmeric and andaliman
Sate or satay		Java and Sumatra, nationwide	Roasted meat	skewered barbecued meat that usually had peanut sauce, or sweet soy sauce. Many type of satay has developed throughout Indonesia.
Sayur asem		Nationwide	Vegetable soup	(Sour Dish/Tamarind Dish) clear soup with assorted vegetables such as: (melinjo) or gnetum gnemon, melinjo leaves, sweet corn (still on the cobs), young papaya, peanuts, and tamarind.
Sayur lodeh		Nationwide	Vegetable soup	(Mixed Vegetables in Coconut Milk Stew)
Sayur Nganten		Betawi and West Java	Vegetable soup	soup made of trubuk stem
Semur		Nationwide	Stew	Stew made of kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) and spices, usually uses beef.
Soto or sroto or coto		Nationwide	Meat soup	a soup of chicken or beef. Many variants of soto has developed across Indonesia. Many types of soto have the color of yellow because turmeric is added as one of the ingredients.
Tekwan		Palembang, Southern Sumatra	Fishcake soup	a soup of fishcake with bangkoang and mushroom.
Tempe		Nationwide	Fermented food	can be cooked into various dishes; such as tempe bacem, tempe goreng, tempe orek, tumis tempe.
Tinutuan or Bubur Manado		Manado, North Sulawesi	Rice porridge (congee) with vegetables	Rice porridge mixed with various vegetables such as spinach, kangkung, corn, and sweet potato or cassava.
Tongseng		Solo, Central Java	Meat soup	Goat meat or beef stew dishes in curry-like soup with vegetables and kecap manis (sweet soy sauce).
Tumis Kangkung		Java	Vegetarian dish	Stir fry kangkung vegetable
Tumpeng		Java	Rice dish	cone shaped rice surrounded with assorted dishes)
Tumpang		Java		similar to gulai, but rotten tempeh is used as seasoning instead of turmeric. This dish can be found in Central and western part of East Java.