Good news: I found two of Indonesia dishes (pecel lele and ayam penyet) in one of the culinary spots in Sibu named Bandung. Even the name of the place already portrayed one of the city’s name in Indonesia.

You see, we usually eat Chinese foods at home and when we dine outside. They do have chili in the restaurant/cafe/food stall. But it is either sour one or big-red-chili-potong with soy sauce or Maggi chili sauce. Those can’t give about-the-same spicy feeling from what we have back in Indonesia. After a month, my tongue, taste bud, mouth, and mind already felt itchy and wanted to eat some spicy food. Think about the ‘fire’ in the mouth after eating pecel lele with belacan. Slurrpp!!

When others gathered in town square waiting for firecrackers and making new year resolution (like lose weight with safe diet pills) on New Year Eve, we went to Bandung out of boredom and saw this pecel lele stall. Whoa, so happy as if I saw water on a dessert. So, I ordered pecel lele. The presentation was not bad. Got banana, rice wrapped with banana leaf (or whatever leaf it is), etc.

But bad news: the rice was a plain white rice not coconut rice and was so sticky – cook it a little longer and it will become porridge. The sambal also didn’t have that spicy taste. The lele was so-so.

However, beggar can’t be chooser. I’ll go there again when I crave for hometown food. Or maybe, I should start cooking the real home-food (not just fried rice ). Not a bad idea.