Post Dedicated to Satay

 

It was another week of meetings and working on articles at home so Cheri suggested that I make another post about culture. Food is cultural too right? One of our favorite delicacies here is satay, spelled "sate" in Bahasa Indonesia. We travelled by train 1.5 hours on our P-day yesterday to try to the satay shown above. Here in Kuala Lumpur the locals told us that the best satay is in a place called Kajang, so we went there to check it out and it was pretty good indeed. We got 10 sticks of beef and 10 of chicken. We have not found pork satay in Malaysia or Indonesia because it is not halal but we have had it in Singapore. The little bowl on the side contains peanut sauce. The meat is marinated overnight before it is cooked over hot coals and the peanut sauce is made by roasting and then grinding peanuts and mixing them with fresh ingredients such as shallots, candelnut, ginger root... We generally order some rice to go with this which is not shown in the picture.
This man is cooking the satay. It is always cooked like this. A guy stands there and fans the the coals as he cooks, watching carefully and turning each stick until it is perfectly charred but not overcooked. 
Here is menu board showing all the various kinds of satay at this location: turkey (super expensive here), chicken liver, chicken feet, chicken bone (don't ask me how they do that), rabbit, deer, tripe, lung, spleen, duck, beef, and goat. Plenty of things for more adventurous types. We think we will stick to chicken and beef. 

When its raining or we just don't feel like going out for dinner we often Gojek some food. Kinda like Uber Eats but always brought to you on a motorcycle. We can get really good satay this way in Jakarta in just 30 minutes. We order it with lontong. I can't find a good picture of lontong, but imagine rice that is cooked in a cylinder made from a banana leaf so that it is tightly packed. Then it is cut up into slices and you jab those slices with the end of your sate stick and dip them in the peanut sauce and they are wonderful. It is traditional to also serve sliced cucumbers and shallots with the satay which you eat in the same way. Makes the meal a little more balanced.

Cheri just sent me these two pictures from our cooking class in Bali. Among other dishes we made satay. Bali has their own recipe for satay that uses "bumbu bali" (balinese spice) in the peanut sauce. 










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