Indonesian Food

Todd: Ivan, we are talking about your country, Indonesia. Can you recommend three Indonesian foods for people that visit your country?

Ivan: Ooh, that can be a difficult question because we have lots of variety of foods and it depends on your taste. I mean, if you like sweet foods we have a specialty for that and if you like spicy food also there’s a specialty for that, salty, anything, anything you want. But usually people go for… OK, first is Nasi Goreng. Nasi Goreng is a fried rice and I think it’s quite popular anywhere else in the world if it goes for… if you want to promote Indonesian food. Yeah…

Todd: It’s called Nasi Goreng?

Ivan: Nasi Goreng, yeah. Nasi is rice, goreng is fry.

Todd: Oh, really?

Ivan: So it’s fried rice.

Todd: Nasi Goreng.

Ivan: And then next one is Mi Goreng. Mi goreng is noodles. It’s fried noodles, Mi and goreng. Mi is noodles and goreng is fry, yeah.

Todd: OK, so Mi Goreng and Nasi Goreng.

Ivan: Yeah, and last one is maybe Satay.

Todd: Oh, I think we call it Satay.

Ivan: Yeah, Satay, yeah.

Todd: But you say it differently.

Ivan: Yeah, Satay.

Todd: You say it Satay also?

Ivan: Yeah, Satay.

Todd: OK, and that’s mainly chicken on a stick right?

Ivan: Chicken, you can go for chicken, you can go for meat, you can go for mutton, anything, liver, anything. And we usually have some kind of special sauce, or ketchup or whatever, like mixed with some weird stuff but… basically it’s ketchup, chili, and salt and some ginger or whatever. Sometimes it’s garlic and you just dip it inside and you eat it and it’s really nice.

Todd: Oh that sounds really good.