comprising 180 popular indonesian provincial recipes, this book provides you with a clear idea of the way indonesians prepare their dishes. Ascustomary, indonesians throughout the archipelago eat rice as their staple food served with various dishes consisting of meat, chicken or fish, vegetables and or soups, and a must in every meal, sambal, the chili paste condiment.

Julie sutarjana, more dearly known as Nyonya Rumah, has written a large collection of recipes published on daily newspapers. some are made into books that have been considered precious' guide books' by housewives in the country for more than 60 years.