NASI UDUK (UDUK RICE)

Nasi uduk is one of the many varieties of spice infused rices, very common in Indonesia. The basic is rice, coconut milk, lemongrass, salam leaves, and a little salt. On top of the rice I put bawang goreng (deep-fried shallots) and slivered fried eggs. And then, I wrapped the rice with banana leaves. This is made of rice boiled in coconut milk spiced with corriander, salt and daun salam (similar to bay leave) and then steamed. Usually nasi uduk is served with fried chicken, empal or bacem and garnished with sliced cucumber and daun kemangi (a kind of parsley with certain aromatic smell).

NASI GANDUL (GANDUL RICE)

Nasi means Rice, the taste of nasi gandul similar to semur, it's sweet but rich because of coconut milk. Nasi Gandul originally from Pati, Central Java, and its a "must" to put the banana leave on the base of this dish . Its looks like soup, with "choose it yourself" ingredients, such as beef, egg, inner part of cow (well, Indonesian eat this parts).It's taste sweet (i mean a lot of sugar) and of course spicy. 

GADO GADO

Gado-gado is a traditional dish in Indonesian cuisine, and comprises a vegetable salad served with a peanut sauce dressing. It is widely served from hawkers carts, stalls (warung), and small restaurants up to star hotels restaurants in Indonesia, and in Indonesian restaurants in other countries.

Gado-gado is part of a wider family of Indonesian peanut sauce - salad; with lotek, pecel and karedok. Some of salad's peanut sauce is made in individual batches, fresh in front of the customers (like the picture on the right - which should say the way lotek is prepared), however gado-gado sauce is made a head of time and cooked in bulk). Compare to Western salads, gado-gado has much more sauce in it (the vegetable should be well coated in the sauce)

For the convenience of modern world, both gado-gado and pecel sauce is available in block of dried sauce that can easily be made liquid by adding warm water.