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  Indonesian Cuisine
Indonesia consists of some 13,000 islands which stretch from west to east along the equator, from the island of Sumatra, directly south of Thailand, to Irian Jaya, just north of Australia.
The Republic of Indonesia was declared at the end of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during World War two.
The main meal in Indonesia is usually served at midday.
www.cuisinenet.com /glossary/indon.html   (439 words)

  
 Indonesian Cuisine - Wokme Asian Cooking Guide
Indonesian cuisine reflects the vast variety of people that live on these islands and has influences from the many nations that came to Indonesia to trade with its people for centauries.
Indonesia like most Asian country's use lots of rice with their cooking, The difference with Indonesia is they like to flavor their rice, often with coconut milk, an ingredient used in much Indonesian cooking.
The most popular dishes that originated in Indonesia are common across most of Asia, with satay's, Beef Rendang and Sambal's favoured in Malaysia and Singapore.
www.wokme.com /cuisines/indonesian.htm   (329 words)

  
 Ethnic Cuisine: Indonesia
Nowhere is this more true than in Indonesia, the fifth largest country in the world, an archipelago consisting of 18,000 islands, spanning one-eighth of the globe and occupied by 250 ethnic groups.
Indonesia's indigenous techniques and ingredients merge with influences from India, the Middle East, China and Europe.
Rice is Indonesia's main staple except in Maluku (the Moluccas) and Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea) where sago palm flour, sweet potatoes and cassava reign supreme.
www.sallys-place.com /food/ethnic_cusine/indonesia.htm   (2856 words)

  
 Indonesia Tourism : The Cuisines in the Archipelago)
On some of the islands in eastern Indonesia, staple food traditionally ranged from corn, sago, cassava to sweet potatoes, though this is changing as rice becomes more popular.
The Javanese cuisine is probably more palatable to the general taste and consists of vegetables, soybeans, beef, chicken and other varieties.
As the population of Indonesia is predominantly Moslem, pork is usually not served except in Chinese restaurants, non moslem regions and in places serving international cuisine.
www.indonesia-tourism.com /general/cuisine.html   (465 words)

  
 INDONESIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Indonesia, officially The Republic of Indonesia, is the worlds largest archipelago spanning 5,120 kilometers (3,200 miles) from east to west along the Equator and 1,760 kilometers (1,100 miles) from north to south.
Indonesia is comprised of 13,667 islands (6,000 inhabited) located between the continents of Asia and Australia.
Dutch influence in Indonesia rapidly decreased and on August 17, 1950 all previous governments were swept away by the new government of the Republic of Indonesia.
cui.unige.ch /~luthi/download/indo.html   (10359 words)

  
 Cuisine - Wokme Asian Cooking Guide
Indonesia, consists of about 13,000 islands and its cuisine reflects the vast variety of people that live on these islands and the people that came to trade with the islanders.
Korean cuisine is very reminiscent of Japanese and Chinese cuisines as the Koreans use similar techniques in preparing food with a few variations.
Vietnamese cuisine has influences from French colonization, the Buddhist religion from India and from its proximity to China which it shares a border with.
www.wokme.com /cuisines/index.html   (339 words)

  
 Indonesian Food - Cuisine information, recipes, and resources
Tempeh is similar to tofu in providing a way to improve the digestibility of soybeans, but different from it in nutritional characteristics and eating qualities, as tempeh's fermentation process and its retention of the whole bean give it a higher content of dietary fiber and vitamins, as well as firmer texture and stronger flavor.
Lime, or baby lemon, is an ambiguous term in the context of fruit, referring to a number of different citrus hybrids and cultivars with typically round, green to yellow fruit, 3-6 cm in diameter, generally containing sour pulp, and frequently associated with the lemon.
Cloves are harvested primarily in Indonesia (Banda Islands, known as the "Spice Islands") and Madagascar; it is also grown in Zanzibar, India, and Sri Lanka.
www.indonesianfood.info   (1109 words)

  
 Windows on Asia
Indonesia is a country of great diversity and its national motto is "Unity in Diversity." This diversity is also found in all aspects of culture: language, housing, cuisine, dance and music, artistic expression, etc as each has many local variants.
Indonesia, like much of Southeast Asia, has adopted and adapted the great Hindu epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and uses these stories as the basis of many dance, musical, and puppetry performances.
Brought to Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia by Indian merchants, these stories have been popular since their introduction in the 1st century A.D. Over the centuries, these stories have been changed and modified until they have become an intimate part of Indonesian heritage and have particular Indonesian attributes.
www.asia.msu.edu /seasia/Indonesia/culture.html   (940 words)

  
 Cuisine of Indonesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In western and central Indonesia the main meal is usually cooked in the late morning, and consumed around midday.
In eastern Indonesia where the natives are more influenced by pacific islander cultures such as on the island of Papua and Timor, the meals can be centered around other sources of carbohydrates such as sago and/or grain.
Indonesia  • Laos  • Malaysia  • Myanmar  • Philippines  • Singapore  • Thailand  • Vietnam
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuisine_of_Indonesia   (967 words)

  
 Indonesia : News - Bali opens culinary center
DENPASAR (indo.com): Indonesia's chefs will have more opportunities to improve their skills in culinary arts with the establishment of ARPI Culinary Center of Food Retail Excellence in Denpasar, Bali.
Suguharto, chairman of the Indonesia Chefs Association, hailed the establishment of ARPI, saying that the facility would contribute to the development of the country's cuisine.
Indonesia has great potential for the development of culinary arts, he said, but lack of adequate culinary equipment had so far hindered this development.
www.indo.com /indonesia/news183.html   (414 words)

  
 Indonesia Study-Service Term | Learning and Serving Abroad at Goshen College, Goshen, IN
Similar to the diversity of people in Indonesia, is the variety in customs and traditions surrounding food.
Chopsticks may be used sometimes, depending on the ethnicity of the food and the people with whom you are dining, but more commonly food is eaten with a spoon and/or your fingers.
Since Indonesia is primarily a Muslim country you will have a difficult time finding pork.
www.goshen.edu /sst/indonesia/cuisine.php   (370 words)

  
 Indonesia
The flag of Indonesia is based on the flag of the Majapahit Empire on Java at the end of the 13
Traditionally almost all Indonesia since long ago has used red and white as their sacred colours, resembling the colour of sugar (red in colour because the sugar comes from palm-sugar, "gula (sugar) aren (palm- sugar)") and rice (white in colour).
Sutiyoso said the flag must be tightly guarded by Presidential Guards to ensure its safety as well as to show respect for Indonesia's heroes, particularly former First Lady Fatmawati, the second wife of founding president Sukarno.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/id.html   (1060 words)

  
 Cuisine Meat Immigrants Cuisine Indonesia Unanimous Thing
Dutch Cuisine It is aforementioned that there is actually no such thing as a Dutch Cuisine.
Dutch cuisine is unanimous and its discreetness is usually restricted on a patch of meat, potatoes (often served as French fries), boiled vegetables and heaps of gravy.
But this render of the boring, almost non-existant Dutch Cuisine is lento changing mostly deserved to the influence of immigrants from Holland's former colonies, namely from Indonesia.
international-cuisines.atspace.name /holland   (1044 words)

  
 Restaurants Aruba - Indonesian Cuisine
Indonesian cuisine is as diverse as Indonesian culture, and has taken on culinary influence from many sources.
Throughout its history, Indonesia has been involved in trade due to its location and natural resources.
Indonesia's indigenous techniques and ingredients, at least in the Malay World parts, are influenced by India, the Middle East, China and finally Europe.
www.restaurantsaruba.com /indonesian.html?cuisine_type=indonesian   (86 words)

  
 cuisine.co.nz - food - sweet as
This is the very hard, dark brown palm sugar with a deliciously intense complex caramel flavour.
It is used all over Malaysia, Indonesia and in Singapore as a sweetener in savoury cooking and desserts.
It is a small mould of unflavoured cooked sago, served ice-cold with thick coconut cream and chilled palm sugar syrup made from this type of palm sugar.
www.cuisine.co.nz /index.cfm?pageId=18453   (1716 words)

  
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Across Southeast Asia, distinctive and common ingredients are used in a dizzying array of recipes: coconut milk, curry, lemongrass, laos, ginger, basil, chilies, palm sugar, mint leaf, shrimp paste, fish sauce, and the varied spices of the Spice Islands.
But the manner in which these ingredients are combined, and the cooking techniques used, vary greatly and give the different cuisine their own distinct flavors.
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago, consisting of some 13,000 islands – the fabled Spice Islands among them.
www.nusantararestaurant.com   (309 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Vietnamese food   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The distinct tart flavor of the sauce is rampant in the cuisine, which itself is heavy on Chinese influence.
The ancient Chinese philosophy of yin and yang is apparent in Vietnamese cuisine as well, with a delineation between foods that cool and warm the body.
The reason the cuisine of Indonesia can work in North America though, is due to the unity of sour and sweet.
www.askmen.com /fashion/wine_and_dine/53b_wine_dine.html   (581 words)

  
 Melissa's World Variety Produce - Organic, Specialty & Recipes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Some of the islands of Indonesia are referred to as the Spice Islands for the nutmeg, cloves, coriander, lemon grass and turmeric that grow profusely and figure prominently in the cuisine.
While influenced by Arab, Indian and Chinese cuisine it’s the Dutch culture that is represented in the use of many common western vegetables.
Rice is the staple of most Indonesian cuisine, and it is the plain, medium-grain variety that is most commonly used, with turmeric or saffron occasionally added for special flavor.
www.melissas.com /Magazine/index.cfm?article_id=165   (483 words)

  
 The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
Greek has a very interesting cuisine and like our cuisine in Indonesia, has many culinary overtones of various countries, cultures and languages.
One of the overtones that is obvious in Greek cuisine is the influence of Turkish cuisine, and the spices and herbs used in that cuisine are also found in many Greek dishes.
Speaking about souring agents, lemons to the Greek cuisine are as important in cooking as tomatoes are to the Italians.
www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20060312.H01   (917 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Singaporean, Malaysian & Indonesian Cuisine: Books: Christina Sjahir Hwang,Wei-Chuan Publishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Because of the rich mix of cultures, ethnic groups, and religions, the cuisine of those three countries are greatly influenced by each other as well as such neighboring cultures as China and India.
MALAYSIAN cuisine combines the delicacy of Chinese food with Indian spices and regional herbs; famous dishes include Penang Noodle Soup (Penang Laksa), Lacy Pancakes (Roti Jala) and Beef Sate (Sate Daging).
Singaporean, Malaysian & Indonesian Cuisine by Christina Sjahir Hwang
www.amazon.com /Singaporean-Malaysian-Indonesian-Cuisine-Christina/dp/094167682X   (1801 words)

  
 Indonesia Hotels
A third of the country’s 18,000 islands are inhabited, and it is by far the most populated place in Southeast Asia.
Cuisine, dialect, and attractions vary from spot to spot, but you can pretty much count on a friendly welcome, fascinating people, and close proximity to amazing beaches.
The Grand Bali Beach, located on the site of Balis first five-star hotel - the Hotel Bali Beach, founded in 1966 - is the most complete resort complex in Bali, featuring satte-of-t...
www.asia-hotel.net /indonesia   (387 words)

  
 Eat Smart in Indonesia
Also available: culinary guidebooks to the cuisine of Brazil, Turkey, India, Mexico, Poland, Morocco and Peru.
She is a founding member of CHEW (Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin) and is the director of the Travel Publishers Association.
An historical survey of the development of Indonesian cuisine and the outside influences felt by several millenia of foreign intervention by traders and invaders from many nations.
www.ginkgopress.com /indoinfo.html   (879 words)

  
 Indonesian
The authors have traveled throughout Indonesia, researching cuisine and sampling the extraordinary foods in the markets, in restaurants, and in Indonesian homes.
It may well prove to be the definitive book on the amazingly varied cuisine of this country, what Owen calls an "endangered cuisine" like many ethnic diets.
In his introduction, the author acknowledges that even to someone who knows his or her way around a roasting pan, distinguishing the culinary characteristics of each nation in this region is a science unto itself, especially when it comes to curry sauce.
www.sallys-place.com /food/book_reviews/indonesian.htm   (475 words)

  
 Indonesia: xxx
Indonesia has one of the world's great cuisines, drawing on influences from around the world.
Foreign culinary art is subtly distinguishable in Indonesian cooking, yet each alien ingredient is blended creatively with the islands' own cooking secrets.
From soothing coconut to fiery chiles, the flavors of Indonesia will stimulate your tastebuds and your appetite.
www.globalgourmet.com /destinations/indonesia/indonesia.html   (95 words)

  
 BIG DISCOUNTS - Komaneka Suite-Bali Villas and Bali Hotels Indonesia Bali Travel pages - Indonesia-Bali.com | all ...
Hidden away in a peaceful location with views over the Oos River, The Komaneka Suite is a small all villa and Suite resort.
Sister hotel of Komaneka Resort, the same attention to details has been taken and various bits and pieces have been brought in from around Indonesia, such as the large and carved stone surrounding each bath are from the smoldering Mt. Merapi and a Javanese house which is the Restaurant.
Each villa is large and luxurious with private outdoor area with plunge pool and bale.
www.indonesia-bali.com /bali_hotel/gianyar/komaneka_suite_indo.htm   (428 words)

  
 Indonesia Hotel - Bali Rani Hotel Indonesia2
Where life is a celebration characterized by elaborated festivals, indigenous art forms and creative cuisine.
The authentic Chinese Cuisine and seafood in the Elegant atmosphere.
Serving a wide variety International dishes and Indonesia cuisine.
www.southtravels.com /asia/indonesia/baliranihotel/index.html   (305 words)

  
 Indonesia Hotel - Sari Segara Resort and Villas Bali Indonesia
Built on a 1500 meters square land in a lush tropical garden, across the white sandy beach of Kedonganan bay between Jimbaran bay and Kuta beach.
An open-air restaurant offers European, Chinese and Indonesia cuisine as well as fresh local seafood.
Friendly service and warm Balinese hospitality complete the picture for your perfect holiday and make Sari Segara Resort and Spa one of the most popular places in the area.
www.southtravels.com /asia/indonesia/sarisegara/index.html   (500 words)

  
 Culture of Indonesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Puppet shows, known as wayang, are traditional theater shows that were used to spread Hinduism and Islam among villagers in Java.
This genre had its roots in Portugal and was brought to Indonesia by Portuguese traders in the 15th century.
There is a traditional "Keroncong Tugu" music group in North Jakarta and other traditional Keroncong music groups in Maluku, with strong influences from Portugese culture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_Indonesia   (2999 words)

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