Indonesian restaurants in Asia
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Casa Luna
Janet de Neefe of cooking school and writers' festival fame runs this ever-popular Indonesian-focused restaurant (the seafood satay, yum!), which also has a delicious range of bakery items. Recent renovations have softened the edges; live jazz some nights.
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Lara Djonggrang
An attractive selection of dishes from around the archipelago, stunning decor that mixes traditional Indonesian flair with North African charm, atmospheric lighting and a great wine list make this one stunning place to eat.
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Sate Khas Senayan
Excellent two-storey air-con restaurant at the northern end of Jl Jaksa, renowned for its superb sate, rawon buntut (oxtail stew) and other classic Indonesian dishes.
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Bumbu Bali
A good place for Balinese food in the heart of Ubud. The menu features dishes such as lawar (green bean salad), ayam pelalah (spicy shredded chicken salad) and sambal goreng udang (prawns in a tangy coconut-milk sauce). Like your food? You can also learn to cook it.
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Batak Warung
In Pangururan, a simple warung, across from the police station, looks more like a bus stop than a restaurant, but it does a busy lunch-time trade of Batak dishes, such as sassang (stewed pork) and nila (fish stew).
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Lamak
Artful presentations from the eclectic menu set the mood at this excellent eatery. The large kitchen is open and each day there are specials of Indonesian food that are not found on your average menu. Long wine list.
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Ocean's Resto
In the fledging waterfront district, choose fish or seafood, sold by weight, plus burgers, fish and chips, and Indonesian food. Sit inside with air-con or go rustic in the garden with the sea breeze and casual vibe.
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Relax Restaurant
Long-running Swiss-owned restaurant with a restrained, enjoyably formal air. The menu covers both Western and Indonesian fare, and service is prompt and efficient. Breakfast with the homemade bread is a treat.
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Wisata Bahari
Right next to the Bahu Mall is this huge restaurant built on stilts over the sea. Seafood is priced by weight and it's popular with high rollers from Manado.
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Bali
With the proprietors living directly above the dining room, homely atmosphere takes a literal interpretation at Bangkok’s only Indonesian restaurant. Despite the name, the food here is not Balinese, but rather pan-Indonesian, and the restaurant serves all the expected standards (satay, gado-gado, rijstaffel ), as well as a few, slightly more unusual dishes (young jackfruit salad, a variety of sambels (spicy Indonesian/Malaysian dips).
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Lae Lae
Quite simply, the spot in town for fresh fish and seafood. If you approach from the seafront, no, don't worry, it's not closed; keep walking and enter via the sizzling barbecue. Peer into the huge ice boxes and enter fish heaven. The staff can recommend something if the choice is overwhelming. The décor may be simple, but the fish with cobek-cobek (sauce made with chilli, lime and shrimp paste) is anything but.
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Bali Laguna
This Indonesian restaurant has an open longhouse interior with a tranquil lakeside setting in Jing’an Park. Waiters in sarongs serve up excellent dishes, such as seafood curry in a fresh pineapple, gado gado (vegetable salad with peanut sauce) and kalio daging (beef in coconut milk, lemongrass and curry sauce). Reserve a table or stop by for a drink on the terrace.
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Hati Hati
Hati Hati offers some of the best Indonesian food in Kyoto, including all the standard favourites, such as nasi goreng (fried rice) and mee goreng (fried noodles). It’s on the basement floor of the Kankō building; look for the green stairwell. It also doubles as a bar-club – stop by and see what’s up if you’re in the area.
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Asmara
Consistently recommended by expats, this is a comfortable, spacious and airy two-storey thatched restaurant offering fine European cuisine - try the frikadellen (meatballs with mustard gravy and sautéed potatoes) - plus Indonesian and international favourites. Children are well catered for from a special menu, and there's a small pool and play area too.
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Kafe Batan Waru
This ever-popular cafe has an expanded outdoor terrace. It serves consistently excellent Indonesian food, stylishly presented. The mie goreng noodles are made fresh daily – a noteworthy detail given the number of places that substitute pot noodles. Western dishes include sandwiches and salads.
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Café Alberto
Occupying a large beachfront plot well away from the road, feast on Italian (pizza and pasta) or Indonesian (the usual suspects in generous portions) cuisine at this enjoyable restaurant. Lunch at a table on the sand and then snooze it off on one of their loungers. There's also a small kids' playground here with slides and a sandpit.
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Soto Ambengan Pak Sadi
If you're looking for chicken dishes, then look no further than Pak Sadi's. Be sure not to overlook the famed lemon grass and coriander Madurese chicken soup, which is sublime. The place is best known, not surpisingly, for soto, a typical Indonesian soup filled with chicken or meat and other bits and pieces. Service is fast.
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House of Sundanese Food
A beacon of low-key amicability on hyper Boat Quay; dine under the riverside boughs or upstairs surrounded by artefacts. Tickle your tonsils with the ayam bumbu (mildly spiced chicken in semisweet lemon gravy) or west-Javanese grilled seabass, saturated with a quenching lime juice. There's another outlet at Suntec City.
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Cak Asm
No, the name isn't the sound you make after eating here. If that were the case, this simple cafe would be named 'yum'. Join government workers and students from the nearby university for superb dishes at rock-bottom prices. Order the cumi cumi (calamari) with telor asin sauce (a heavenly mixture of eggs and garlic). The resulting buttery, crispy goodness may be the best dish you have in Bali. And it's under US$1.
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Sanur
It's hard to ignore Sanur's beef rendang (beef simmered in coconut-milk curry sauce), a classically-hewn Indonesian indulgence; the fragrant ayam bali (chicken in lemongrass curry) might take your mind off the Fountain of Wealth outside. There's another branch at Ngee Ann City on Orchard Rd.
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Bali Restaurant
The food is pretty good and the service friendly, but the best thing about the Bali is its superb tackiness: a permanent 'happy birthday' sign, vinyl booths separated by fake brick walls, and a 'resort'-style bar playing tunes from South Pacific. Try the nasi goreng, the vegetable curry or the pork satay.
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Ayam Goreng Kalasan
The name here says it all. Fried chicken (Ayam Goreng) named after a Javanese temple (Kalasan) in a region renowned for its fiery, crispy chicken. The version here falls off the bone on the way to the table; the meat bursts with lemongrass scent from a long marinade prior to the plunge into boiling oil. There are several other excellent little warung in this strip.
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Mas Mul
At the southern entrance to the kraton is this, one of Solo's snake restaurants. You can select a live cobra for sauteing or frying, and can take the skin home as a gruesome souvenir. Those wishing to booster their virility can then opt to drink the snake's blood with wine or Red Bull.
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Indonesian Restaurant 1968
Despite the year of its establishment (1968), this restaurant is all teak chic and Bali cool. It’s rumoured that the fine-looking brothers who’re sometimes seen manning the restaurant have almost as much pull as the rendang and gado-gado.
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