I missed my mother's food, and I missed speaking in Indonesian. I didn't feel like I had a community. In 2015, 10 strangers came to my house for my first weekly pop-up.

Kroncong is a soft, romantic genre of Indonesian music, one that Lara Lee listened to at home with her father, Jono Agung, while growing up in Sydney. Mr. Agung, who is Chinese-Indonesian, often ...

It had a spongy texture and was not too sweet. Like most of the food I ate at the New York Indonesian Food Bazaar, it was delicious. For NPR News, I'm Jeff Lunden in Elmhurst, Queens, New York.

The soup sits at the end of a long section labeled “makanan,” Indonesian for “food,” though here implying larger dishes at a restaurant better known for its snacks. At $20, it’s one of ...

They told me some of the best Indonesian food isn’t found in bricks-and-mortar restaurants but in churches, mosques and catering services run by ibu-ibu or Indonesian matriarchs.

Indonesian food is underappreciated in much of the world. Precisely how many Indonesian restaurants exist in America is unclear, but there are probably fewer than 100.

“There’s a lot to be learned about Indonesian cuisine — if you can follow a few recipes, you can transport your kitchen to Indonesia,” Lee said. This article was originally published in 2021.

She's also making grilled tempe, a dish she says that was actually invented in Indonesia. She's serving it with a jicama mango salad, homemade peanut sauce, and a piece of rice paper that she cuts ...