This popular restaurant chain boasts a knock-out ayam penyet. The traditional Javanese dish literally translates into ‘smashed chicken’, describing the end process of smashing a piece of deep-fried marinated chicken with a wooden mallet. Served with a large dollop of homemade sambal belacan (chilli paste) and fried tahu (Indonesian for ‘beancurd’)
Tucked away in the old charm of Duxton Hill, this quaint Balinese-style restaurant has a rustic allure of its own. The restaurant, heavily adorned with traditional Balinese house décor, offers a signature cumi Bali: a tender, flame-grilled squid with black sweet sauce. The ikan bakar is also wonderfully unique as it is flavourful: prepared by spreading otah paste on top of a peculiar ‘chicken fish’ and steamed.
3 - Garuda Padang Cuisine
Drawing from traditional Minangkabau recipes but plated in a clean-chic minimalist style, the established restaurant chain offers a set menu that includes favourites like sambal cumi cumi, gulai ayam (chicken curry) and tahu goreng bumbu nenas (fried beancurd served with pineapple and peanut sauce) that are characteristic of Padang’s earthy and mellow flavours.
The packed lunchtime at Rumah Rasa should be proof enough that former Raffles Hotel and St Regis chef Sharifah Zaharah’s hearty Indonesian and Malay dishes are a hit.
5 - Tambuah Mas Indonesian Restaurant
Rallying traditional, home-styled cuisines from Padang, Sulawesi and Java into one kitchen, Tambuah Mas is probably your best bet for a sumptuous, hearty, and frill-free family dining experience. You can’t go wrong with a crispy tahu telor (fried cubed beancurd and eggs, topped with a homemade sweet and spicy dark sauce) or a savoury gado-gado (a toss of mixed vegetables, tofu and prawn crackers, drizzled in spicy peanut dressing).
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