Sambal, spicy condiments found across Indonesia (and Malaysia and Singapore), come in as many styles and variations as there are cooks in the archipelago. The island of Bali is known for sambal matah, ...

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This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now. I watched my dad heap chile-flecked sambal into bowls of pho ...

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Rice rules the roost in an Indonesian menu, says Harsha Bhat When we visited Fenti at her home in Mahadevapura she laid out a spread of Indonesian delicacies – Nasi goreng ayam or chicken fried rice, ...

SHAH ALAM, Oct 19 — It’s here. It’s there. It’s everywhere. On your screens, every third or fourth video shows a guy (usually filming in his car) chomping on a piece of sambal-covered fried chicken, ...