🍴 List of Indonesian Food Menus You Must Try

Indonesia is not just a country with beautiful nature, but also a paradise for food lovers. Every region has its own delicious and flavorful specialties. Here is a list of Indonesian foods you must try when traveling to Indonesia:

Main Dishes

1. Rendang

This Minangkabau specialty is already world-famous. Beef is cooked with spices and coconut milk until it is perfectly absorbed, producing a savory, spicy, and richly seasoned flavor.

2. Opor Ayam

This chicken dish in a savory coconut milk broth is often served during Eid alongside ketupat. It tastes tender and warming.

3. Soto Ayam

A chicken soup in a yellow broth with distinctive Indonesian spices, usually served with rice, vermicelli, and boiled egg.

4. Nasi Goreng

An iconic Indonesian dish that is famous worldwide. Fried rice is usually served with egg, chicken, or seafood, plus crackers and pickles.

5. Bakso

Beef meatballs served in a warm broth with noodles, tofu, and dumplings. Perfect to enjoy anytime.

6. Mie Ayam

Yellow noodles served with pieces of sweet-savory seasoned chicken, vegetables, and dumplings.

7. Gado-Gado

An Indonesian salad consisting of boiled vegetables, tofu, tempeh, egg, and rice cake, topped with peanut sauce.

8. Bebek Madura

Crispy fried duck from Madura with deeply absorbed spices, served with spicy sambal.

9. Ayam Geprek

Crispy fried chicken that is smashed and topped with super spicy sambal. Perfect for lovers of spicy food.

10. Ayam Bakar

Chicken grilled with sweet-savory seasoning, usually eaten with sambal and fresh vegetables.

11. Sate Ayam

Skewered chicken that is grilled and then drizzled with peanut sauce. One of the most popular street foods in Indonesia.

12. Bubur Ayam

Warm rice porridge with shredded chicken, crackers, fried dough sticks, and a savory yellow broth.

13. Ketoprak

A dish with rice cake, tofu, vermicelli, and bean sprouts, topped with a sweet-savory peanut sauce.

14. Soto Betawi

A Jakarta specialty soto with a thick coconut milk broth, usually made with beef or offal.

15. Sate Kambing

Skewers of grilled goat meat, served with a spicy sweet soy sauce seasoning.

16. Rawon

A black-broth beef soup from East Java that uses kluwek (black nut) as its main seasoning.

17. Nasi Uduk

Savory rice cooked with coconut milk, usually served with fried chicken, egg, and peanut sambal.

18. Tempe

A food made from fermented soybeans, rich in protein, that can be fried or cooked with seasonings.

19. Sop Buntut

Oxtail soup with a clear savory broth, with carrots, potatoes, and celery.

20. Pecel Lele

Crispy fried catfish served with shrimp-paste sambal and fresh raw vegetables.

21. Ikan Bakar

Fresh fish grilled with distinctive seasoning, delivering a savory and smoky flavor.

22. Lontong Sayur

Rice cake in a chayote vegetable and coconut milk broth, usually eaten in the morning.

23. Udang Asam Manis

Fresh shrimp cooked in a spicy sweet-and-sour sauce that whets the appetite.

24. Sate Lilit Bali

A Balinese satay of minced meat wrapped around a lemongrass stalk, with a very fragrant aroma.

25. Gudeg Yogyakarta

A Yogyakarta specialty made from young jackfruit cooked with coconut milk and palm sugar, producing a sweet-savory flavor. It is usually served with free-range chicken, pindang egg, and krecek sambal.