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• Kecap manis sauce

  Kecap manis is a sweet and thick soya sauce used widely in Indonesian cuisine. You will find it on tables in nearly all restaurants in Indonesia to flavor up your soup or other dishes.

• Cap cay - Traditional Indonesian veggie bowl with egg

  There are hundreds of variants of Cap cay all over Indonesia. You can get a veggie one or with meat, with various kinds of spices and sometimes it looks more like a wok and sometimes more like a soup. The original recipe comes from China, where it is usually more like a wok, but in Indonesia I met mostly the "soup style" version. Both versions are great, it is simply up to you which one you prefer. This one I learned in a small street restaurant on the east coast of Bali.

• Mie goreng ayam - Fried noodles with chicken

  Mie goreng, fried noodles, together with nasi goreng, belong to the most typical Indonesian dishes. There are loads of variants of preparation. This one is great, as it is very simple and has a pleasant sugary taste thanks to kecap manis sauce.

• Nasi goreng ayam - Fried rice with chicken Lombok style

  If you are asked by someone what is a typical Indonesian dish, nasi goreng, fried rice, will definitely belong to the top of mind. Indonesia consists of thousands of islands and the same amount of various flavors and recipes of nasi goreng you will find across the country. The recipe with kecap manis sauce belonged to my favorites. Especially in a restaurant, where I filmed the recipe. Not only because of its amazing taste and the super nice family running the restaurant, but as the portion was so huge I always recharged the empty batteries after surfing easily.

• Sambal goreng tempe - Fried tempeh with sweet sauce

  Sweet variant of fried tempeh. Great and simple Indonesian recipe, which I have learnt on Lombok island from Mario, cool guy from Jawa.

• Sate ayam - Chicken satay with peanut sauce

  This is Indonesian classic. This is literally a meal, that you do not have to go for, it simply "comes" to you itself :) In other words, it is a very common meal sold from "meals on wheels" restaurants. On motorbikes (yes, ardent charcoal included) or manually driven.