The other day a friend asked if I knew any local food blogs and I told him I’m sure there’s a lot but I couldn’t recall any at that moment so I figured I’d ask Twitter if they can help me out.
The timing was quite a coincidence because earlier that day I’d just watched this video on YouTube by the Fung Brothers, the American foodie duo whose bombastic videos about their culinary adventures are pretty entertaining. In that episode they were talking about Indonesian food, something that they haven’t had before. I mean, how can you miss this Indomie episode? I bet Indofood didn’t even think anyone would make Indomie in those ways. I mean mie goreng burger? Seriously, who would have thought of that?
The thing about Indonesian food is that despite coming from a country with around 250 million people, more than 13 thousand islands, hundreds of different cultures, and was invaded for having “the spice islands” of Maluku, nobody really knows about it. It’s nowhere near as popular as Malaysian or Thai food but it doesn’t deserve to be and why this is the case escapes me completely. I wrote about this from a startup perspective a few years ago though it barely scratched the issue.
Thanks to Twitter, I now have a list of a dozen blogs about food in Indonesia. It’s not always about Indonesian food but a lot of it is. And if you haven’t discovered Indonesian food, go check them out and see if you can find an Indonesian restaurant or two in your area. CNN didn’t name Indonesian Rendang the best food in the world and Nasi Goreng second in 2011 for nothing and Sara Schonhardt, who happens to be my current editor at WSJ, followed up with a list of 40 Indonesian food that you should try.
http://dlembayung.blogspot.com
http://sharontravelogue.wordpress.com
http://www.laurangelia.blogspot.com
http://eatdrinkmacet.tumblr.com
http://akumemasak.wordpress.com
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