Come experience home style Indonesian cooking featuring a variety of flavors from across the islands. Indonesia is located at the crossroads of the ancient world, astride the great trade routes between the Middle East and Asia. Wave after wave of traders, adventurers, pirates, and immigrants have been drawn by the riches of these Spice Islands. All brought their native cuisine with them.
From India came curries, cucumber, eggplant, and cowpeas. From the Americas, chili, pepper, vanilla, sour sop, pawpaw, and pineapple. The Chinese brought the wok and stir-fry, Chinese mustard, and such vegetables as brassica and cabbage. From Arabia arrived Middle Eastern gastronomic techniques and ingredients such as kebab and flavorful goat stews. Europeans introduced all peanuts, avocado, pineapple, guava, papaya, tomato, squash, pumpkin, cacao, and soybeans. Nature and history have conspired to give Indonesia a culinary tradition as varied and seasoned as its thousands of islands and hundreds of ethnic groups.
Indonesian food, with its distinctive taste and style of cooking and its wide selection of ingredients and spices, is considered to be one of the finest cuisines in the world.
Borobudur Restaurant in San Francisco is home of
“the best Indonesian food in the Bay Area” (Asia Week)
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