![]() It's the result of poaching another culture's cuisine and then spending the next 200 years tweaking it in your own cuisine's language.Īnna and I started with quintessential nasi goreng (fried rice). (The word Indo generally refers to the Eurasian culture that sprang from the Dutch East India Company's 19th-century occupation of Indonesia.) While straight-up Indonesian food resembles other Southeast Asian cuisines, Indo food adds unexpected European ingredients: kidney beans, collard greens, fried potatoes. I only know about this place because my friend Anna, who grew up in the Netherlands, had been missing Indo food real hard. But if you want the sit-down Indonesian dining experience, you need to head up to the edge of the city limits-Aurora Avenue North and 137th Street-to Indo Cafe. Capitol Hill's Malaysian noodle house Kedai Makan has a few entrées, as does Beetle Cafe on the Ave, and there's a limited selection at Bumbu Truck in Fremont. T's not that Seattle lacks Indonesian food.
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