A few courses of Indonesian food, well-prepared and combined with special ingredients, could uplift our mood in this difficult time, while showing appreciation for the archipelago’s rich culinary heritage.

Food writer, food stylist and F&B consultant Ade Putri Paramadita recently teamed up with Acta Brasserie – a newly opened restaurant in South Jakarta’s Senayan area – to create a special menu that highlights acculturation in Indonesia.

In the creation of the menu, Ade – who was the local guide of Gordon Ramsay on the Indonesia episode of the National Geographic Channel’s series Uncharted – works closely with Rui Yamagishi, a Balinese-Japanese chef at the helm of Acta.

Ade said it was very difficult to choose just a few of the numerous Indonesian foods.

“We eventually chose the food that most people can find in their daily lives, to avoid having to explain the foods with much difficulty. [And, as] Rui is going to tweak the presentation of each food, it is better if people already know the original look of each food, so that they will be able to compare the real version with the tweaked ones,” Ade told The Jakarta Post.

The tweaking could be as simple as using thick bumbu pecel (Javanese style peanut sauce for vegetable salad) sandwiched between tiny burger buns. Or, using foie gras as topping for egg martabak, an Indian-inspired Indonesian pancake popular as an after-hour heavy snack.

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