Indonesian believe in sticking an onion and a chilli on a stick in your yard to ward off the rain. And I must say, Indonesian hoodoo works!…
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There I was, lying on the hotel bed in Cairns, reflecting on my travelling while half dozing off. The trip was only half done.…
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Lontong can then be served dry with a drizzle of a generous amount of peanut-based sauce or submerged in coconut milk-based soup.…
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First, I am unsure whether I should even write this post because the Indonesian restaurants in Cairns were below par.…
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Post-audit exhaustion, I couldn't think of anything else but Satay Madura, arguably the most famous Satay version in Indonesia.…
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These are the things I can think of, for now, that set us Indonesians aside while travelling, albeit the title Traveling while Indonesian.…
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These days, my weary self yearns only for one kind of travel, to time travel to the pre-covid era — when I could travel on a whim, even with a very limiting Indonesian passport.…
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I am writing to you mid-flight, in between Jakarta and Melbourne. In between Indonesia and Australia. In between Saturday and Sunday.…
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Do you remember precisely when Covid turned your life upside down? Mine was when I reached Bali and got a plethora of text messages about the then-new-to-me Covid thing. That was two years ago. Today, I get to eat Amma’s homecooked meal at the dining table together with my parents. And for that, I…
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The joy of food rarely is just about the said food; Nasi Bakar is more about the stories, traditions and memories built around it.…
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