About

IndoChine Kitchen is a cooking journal of what’s cooking in our kitchen where a mix of Chinese and Indonesian cultures has been a very interesting gastronomic walk.

Recipes featured are authentic Indonesian cuisine and original Indonesian Chinese cooking. Our family is third generation Chinese immigrant living in Indonesia. The Chinese cooking we do have influences of other parts of South East Asian cuisine and mainly, Indonesian cooking and spices. We live in Medan, North Sumatra, where both Indonesian and Chinese cultures are still as thick as caramelized sugar, only result in the richest culinary adventures in this part of the country.

These are original recipes from my family and close relatives. Some modern twist of Indonesian and Chinese Photos are taken by me. Most of the recipes are still in their original cooking techniques and using authentic ingredients, which are not very ‘user-friendly’ for you who are not familiar with South East Asian cooking style. In the future, I will experiment more on the simpler and modern way of cooking fusion dishes combining the two cuisine. 

This blog is dedicated to my loving mother, Ewa and our cook, Pai. Both have been cooking and working in the kitchen for as long as I can remember.