Indonesian food

Chef Lara Lee, author of the cookbook “Coconut & Sambal,” is making gado gado, a salad that will transport your kitchen to Indonesia.

Indo Java, an Indonesian market in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, seems like an unassuming shop to passersby. But the smells coming from the tiny makeshift kitchen lure people inside to taste the flavors of Indonesian cuisine.

In North Sulawsi’s Minahasa heartlands, the local cuisine gets pretty wild. Bushmeats like rats, snakes, bats, and monkey are a vital part of Minahasan cuisine. But the bushmeat trade is also pushing some animals closer to extinction.