types of cuisine from Indonesia
Indonesian cuisine reflects the diversity of people inhabiting about 6,000 islands that make up the Indonesian state. Maybe there is actually no one singular “Indonesian cuisine”, but rather, the diversity of regional cuisine that is influenced locally by Indonesian culture and foreign influence.
Throughout its history, Indonesia has been involved in world trade due to location and its natural resources. Cooking techniques and ingredients native to Indonesia to grow food and then influenced by the culinary arts of India, the Middle East, China and finally Europe. The Spanish and Portuguese traders brought a variety of foodstuffs from the Americas long before the Dutch managed to master the Indonesian. The island of Maluku is renowned as the “Spice Islands”, also donated the herb plants native to Indonesia to the culinary arts world. Culinary arts eastern Indonesian region similar to the Polynesian and Melanesian art of cooking.
Cuisine Sumatra, for example, often showing the influence of the Middle East and India, such as the use of curry in the dish of meat and vegetables, while the Javanese cuisine evolved from the original cooking techniques archipelago. Elements of Chinese food culture can be observed in several Indonesian cuisine. Dishes such as noodles, meatballs, and spring rolls has been absorbed in the art of Indonesian cuisine. Read the rest of this entry →