Mie Aceh, One of Indonesian Noodle Recipes

I don?t know how many time should I said that I am proud and grateful to be an Indonesian. Living among many culture, character, and also food . The mostly you have to know is Indonesia is a rich country with many kind of food. Ok, this time for me to talk about Aceh Food called Mie Aceh, mie for noodle and Aceh is a place from where the food came from. This is The Mie Aceh picture

I had this food last Tuesday with my senior and junior friends. Mbak Winda, Mbak Adel, Ka Irene, and Ade. We got a mess together in a small corner restaurant at Jalan Bengawan-Bandung. I could know this place because the day before I also had this food with my beloved cousin. Neither a glamour restaurant nor an expensive restaurant. This is just a simple restaurant with extraordinary recipes and and I think this must be the special menu of this restaurant called Mie Rebus Special.

You must be now try to imagine what the taste of this food right? hihihi . I actually not really sure what the detail content of the flavor but as my friend said it could be nutmeg, pepper, chili, and many other seasoning that make the taste so colorful. This really different with Kare from India. This food is very hot and spicy with an unique taste. The Noodle also have a different texture with any other noodle. I think the noodle must be hand made by the chef with a chewy and soft texture. In this food you can also find shrimp, meat, chicken, bean sprouts, vegetable, scallions, celery and mixed together with the egg. In Indonesia it serves with melinjo crispy, union pickle, cucumber and added it with a splash of little lime.

And the red one is a sirup ketimun or in English is cucumber syrup. Nice taste also ^^ and I and my friend were being enjoyed to eat. Ok let gets a bite for tonight. Oops, because I have tried the Mie Aceh before? so at that time I was trying Roti Cane. A sweet thin bread with cheese and milk topping like the creeps in America but this one is Indonesian unique and different taste.

Street Food: pondok satay 888 indonesian dixon house

Our 'weekend in Indonesia' continues in Yogyakarta via Dixon House Food Court with three visits to Pondok Satay 888.

We spent a few days in Yogyakarta in 2009 (oh why didn't we obsessively take food photos then?) and soaked up the street food along Malioboro Road with gusto. Pondok Satay 888 at the main entrance to Dixon House Food Court specialises in Indo food from Java and this city.

Choices here are either ready made bain marie ones (three choices with rice for $7.50) or from a large wrap around the wall menu.

We first choose the Belado Fish $9.50, a crunchy deep fried fish with tender flesh inside and a generous smother of tomatoes, onions and chilli. The tail was like a cripsy fish chip, delicious. What a bargain whole fish are in food courts.

"What kind of fish is it?" Shawn asks.

"Food court fish" replies Alison.

It seems every food court stall in Chinatown uses this kind of fish, it's cheap with plenty of flesh. It has a muddy taste it works best with strong flavoured sauces.

Chicken serit - fried chicken smothered in a mix of lemon grass, shrimp paste and chilli - $8. Alison is over the moon with this one.

Pempek telur- lightly fried fishcake served with kecap manis and sambal.

Love the googie inside. The fish cakes actually taste of fish rather than manufactured meat product. Yum.

Lamb (gambing) sate. Four sticks of charred lamb with a thick, sweet sate sauce on top.

Kankung belecan - stir fried water spinach with shrimp paste - $8. One of our favourite dishes.

Ketoprak - thin rice and thick hokkein noodles with hunks of rice cake smothered in a sweet peanut sauce - $8. This was very filling and very carby, the servce was big enough to power a small village for a day or two.

Ayam bakar - grilled chicken in a sweet, kecap manis based sauce - $8. It's delicious, perhaps not the best ayam bakar in town but certainly the best value, there's half a chook on the plate. The pickled veggies are the perfect foil for the chook and the sambal is excellent, full of flavour without blowing heads off.

Pondok Satay 888 Menu - Click To Enlarge

Pondok Satay 888 Menu - Click To Enlarge

Pondok Satay 888 Menu - Click To Enlarge

Pondok Satay 888 Menu - Click To Enlarge

There's still another dozen or so dishes we'd love to try here, so much food, only two stomachs...

Waroeng Penyet, Hearty & Authentic Indonesian Food « CalvinTimo ...

The food and beverage industry have changed at a very fast pace where food is an abundance in Singapore.  Especially the restaurants along Liang Seah street, we have seen different F&B outlets moving in and out of the shop house spaces on the ground floor.  Recently, Waroeng Penyet along with Swirl Art have taken over the existing space where Crystal Jade steamboat was located.

Daniel and I headed to Waroeng Penyet for dinner, which is the only branch in central Singapore as well as the only air-conditioned halal cafe along the stretch of Liang Seah street.

If you?re thinking that the Chicken Satay (Sate Ayam - $6) served here are the usual ones at our local food center, you will be in for a surprise.  The satay here are topped with peanut gravy with the sweet black grill sauce to give it an extra savoury taste.

With a squeeze of lime and mixing the satay well with the gravy, this is sure so irresistible.  I love this delicious satay and this is sure great to go around the table!

If you love something more flavoursome, the Grilled Beef Balls (Bakso Bakar - $4.90) is another fantastic bite on the menu to chew into.  The juicy and succulent beef balls topped with black sweet sauce and chili padi, be ready for some bombastic experience on your palate.  It doesn?t have any beefy taste and the beef balls are sure very addictive.

After the appetizers, it?s time to try the signature Javanese vegetable dish.  The Indo Salad with Peanut Sauce (Gado Gado - $4.90) is one of the dish you can?t miss on the menu.  The Gado Gado consist of rice cakes, vegetable salad, egg, different types of crackers and topped with peanut gravy.  This dish can be eaten alone as a meal or shared around.  I love this Gado Gado as the serving of crackers are very generous.

For those who love Indonesian grill dishes, you can try the Grilled Chicken (Ayam Panggang - $6).  The Bali style grilled dishes here are best served with the sweet Indonesian sauce and a hint of lime.  The lightly charred chicken skin adds a smoky savoury sensation to the chicken.  Pretty delicious with the juicy meat underneath those golden grilled skin!

There have been a lot of hype over whose Ayam Penyet is the most original in Singapore.  Over here, the Flattened Fried Chicken (Ayam Penyet - $6) is prepared their own unique way.  Maybe that explains why the chicken isn?t as flat as the other ayam penyet I have tried elsewhere.  However, the moisture of the chicken is lock within the crispy layer, giving it a succulent taste and texture.  How can you not have their home-made chilli to go along with this delightful fried chicken?  It taste simply gorgeous!

This is something you don?t come across often, the Flattened Fried Beef (Daging Empal Penyet - $6) wasn?t what I expected.  Initially, I thought that the fried beef will be very tough, dry with the beefy taste.  To my surprise, the meat of it was soft and tender to the bite.  The tasty beef is almost as good at the ayam penyet!  It?s my first time trying this and I am sure to come back for it again!

After a satisfied meal, it?s best to wash it down with the Ice Cucumber  Juice (Es Timun - $2) as it helps to cool the body down.  This is a perfect and refreshing drink to chill from the heat of the day too!

There are so many more delicious dishes at Waroeng Penyet such as Flattened Fried Catfish (Lele Penyet), Java Chicken Soto Soup (Soto Ayam) and Bandung Mixed Fish Dumpling (Siomay Bandung)!  Looks like I have to come back again to try these.  Not to forget, their Avocado Juice too!

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• Bugis
• 1 Liang Seah Street, #01-12
• Singapore 189022

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