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The banana bomb. THE most feared weapon of all. If one of your mates got one of those you knew you were bang in trouble.

 

Just had a takeaway from a local noodle/wok place that I've never used before and flip my doodah's it was absolutely delicious. It was a rice dish called "nasi", lots of Indonesian spices apparently.

My god it was good.

Chef Yadda has some learning to do.

 

this is [probably] what you just ate... Mee Goreng or Bee Hoon Goreng is basically the same, but with noodles.

EDIT: and a recipe to get you started.

 

Yes, that's it.

Mine was prawn and pork (and veg) and the flavour was out of this world. Caremalised sweet soy sauce and shrimp paste seem to be key, thanks for that.

 

Ketjap Manis [Don't buy the stuff from Tesco it's watery and crap] and [iirc] Belacan are what you're after there.

Also, be warned... the shrimp paste absolutely ****ing reeks...

 

Awesome, fella. Thanks.

Do you eat a lot of this stuff?

 

Not as much as i'd like... sadly i share a gaf with someone who outright refuses to eat anything like that...

Going to uni with people from that area of the globe helps though.

 

If you pick up any more tips....

 

Take a look on sites that can get you Dutch food. The Dutch style of 'Chinese' food is heavily Indonesian (like ours is a lot of Cantonese) so they will have packets and bottles of kejap, bami / nasi goreng mixes and so on.

 

At this exact moment, it's Steel Panther and Innis & Gunn Lager Beer

 

Am I the only one who doesn't know all this?

Great advice, cheers. I'll be making this next week for sure.

 

You need to get out more...

 

I'm just a simple, country boy.

 

For something random, you might wanna have a look at Berbere and or Doro Wat... Ethiopian 'not-a-curry'...

 

Pack it in. Do you know how much I weigh?

 

There's a tasteless famine joke in there somewhere...

 

Oops.

 

The one thing I really miss* from living in The Netherlands - aside from the fact that on the continent the food is generally just better than it is here - is frikandellen. Alas, they contain horse meat and we Brits tend to be a bit squeamish about that.

*This could be rose-tinted spectacles, since I lived in The Netherlands when I was about 10/11...

 

Most non-native Dutch folk that I know who have spent time in Holland, either through work or "recreationally", ate just about anything (and everything) that was nearby and tasty.

 

Especially as it turned out most of them were eating horse and didn't notice...