The Dewi

By now you should know why I love Indonesian food so much. Never mind that I was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, or the fact that my basics in cooking anything is based on Indonesian food recipes.......What was I trying to say again?? Anyways, I love Indonesian food because it involves three top things that I love in food: chili, coconut milk, and chili. Wait, those are two things, but who's counting? So naturally, I love sambal goreng . And not just any sambal goreng, it has to be Indonesian sambal goreng , because it contains stink/ pete beans more often than not*big grin. So I guess I could say the number three ingredient that I like in Indonesian food is pete beans, except I don't eat them....for aesthetics purposes. I have shared with you my recipe for sambal goreng ati ampela . which is basically similar to this one, except in this recipe we work with shrimps instead of chicken innards. Some of the herbs are different, but not by a lot. Basically, we ...

And so passed the Chinese New Year.  祝你在新的一年里龙马精神. I hope you are also full of energy and everything goes well for you in this new year. My family and I celebrated with a simple meesuah dish as it is the tradition in my husband's family to eat meesuah during Chinese New Year. So what'd happen is, we'd spend the entire day visiting relatives, eating bowls and bowls of meesuah from one place to another. It's hard to describe the sensation you feel after that. You can find my recipe for the mee suah that I made here . I post daily recipes on my Instagram account, so feel free to follow me here . I hope you'd do that :). Anyways, for this next recipe, in Indonesia you'd find this dish in any Chinese restaurant. But peculiarly enough, when you go to China, you will not find this dish (as conveyed by my husband who has visited many times). Even in Singapore, we don't find this dish in the Chinese restaurants also. So, I think it's save to say that t...

The next day on our Bali trip, we decided to spend the day at Waterbom Bali, of course in the morning, I made time to just sit in the balcony, enjoying the awesome view that is Ubud. For more information on Waterbom Bali, feel free to click here . You can buy the tickets online through that link, plus if you're Indonesian or foreigner with a working permit/visa, they charge you with a cheaper rate, just be sure to have your KTP or residency permits with you when you claim the tickets on site. For my family, a trip to Waterbom Bali is a must every time we visit. It is rated as the #3 water park in the world, and the #1 water park in Asia by tripadvisor ( I don't know whether this means much to you or not hehe). I didn't take too many pictures of the water park, because I was busy having fun :P. Sorry. But, I did manage to take a picture of myself as I was about to have fun muaahhaha. The water park was quite big, with many slides from the really mild ones like ...

This recipe was first thought of by my mother. It is simple, delicious, and you can cook anything with these ingredients, I kid you not. In my opinion, my mom is truly gifted in cooking, that's where her talent lies. However, her true calling is..........cleaning -_-. Her friends and family, and everyone else who knows her can tell without a doubt she definitely has OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), although it was never officially assessed by any health practitioner, but her situation is really obvious, clear cut, in your face, double confirm, guarantee chop case. To give you an idea of what my mom is like, let me tell you a little bit about her, one of the most important and beloved person in my life, and by far, the most interesting individual I have ever known, bar none. She loves cleaning. Well 'love' is a strong word, 'she is enslaved by her obsession to clean' is probably more accurate. You wouldn't know the true meaning of the word 'imma...

I may have said I'm not really into fish, but, sometimes when you come across something amazing, you know you just have to make an exception, ......or excuse. I'm not much of a fish eater, but I have always been passionate about the head. There's just something about eating the collagen filled skin, and cheek, and....eye balls, that gets me all excited and...hungry, even when I am really not. In Indonesia, there are several restaurants that serve this delicate fare, that have become my personal favorite. But, in Singapore, West C'oz Cafe is the only place I'd look for fish head curry. A bit different from Indonesian style fish head curry-where the fish head is served by itself, making you feel like you're going to eat something very special- in Singapore, fish head curry is served together with deep fried tofu, fried tofu skin, eggplant, okra, cabbage and sometimes carrots. I welcome the change since those are all my favorite things to eat (what I don...