Indonesia is a great country with around 13.600 islands stretched along the equator. But despite its culinary richness, little is still known about true Indonesian culinary potential. Beside of the general interest in Indonesia as holiday and vacation destination, and lack of efforts to promote Indonesian food on international landscape, language is often the major barrier, since most websites presenting information on Indonesian food is done in Bahasa Indonesia itself; practically alienated the rest of the world. This is why the world knows better about Malaysian food, Singaporean food, Thailand and Philippine food compared to Indonesian food, since most of websites on those nation's food are done in English.
But despite that common condition, some people find it worth their time to spread the news about Indonesian culinary to the global world audience, just like myself. At these websites, you will find information, experience, taste notes, photographs, and even recipes of how to create the most famous Indonesian dishes. For your convenience, I have gathered some of those websites and list them here; all of them are in English.
On the first part, I listed the major Indonesian food blogs on Food Creation for those who are curious about Indonesian cuisine and how to create them. On the second part, I listed the major Indonesian food blogs on Food Experience for those who curious about eating experience of Indonesian food, or in Indonesian eateries. On the last part, I listed some Indonesian food blogs on Food Recipes for those who would like to go straight to create the experience for themselves. List are sorted loosely by popularity according to Alexa.
If you happen to know any other websites that fits into the listed categories, kindly please inform me as I will update this list from time to time.
FOOD CREATION
These are food blogs with above 50% of their content focused on food creation and recipes.
01 | Indonesia Eats by Pepy Nasution
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | Photos | #873,700
Insightful writings on Indonesian food and recipes by Pepy, accompanied by wonderful photos. Pepy is an Indonesian-born girl who now lives in Winnipeg, Canada with her husband.
02 | For The Love of Baking by Riana Ambarsari a.k.a. Pennylane
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | Photos | #1,086,961
Riana shares her passion in cooking (not just baking), and eating (surely), along with food notes and strikingly wonderful food photos. Riana is currently living in Jakarta.
03 | Mochachocolata Rita by Rita
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | Photos | #1,100,239
In her blog, Rita shares her passion on food and cooking, including those from Indonesia, reminiscing of the old days when she's still living there. Rita currently lives in Hong Kong.
04 | Indo Chine Kitchen by Jun
Recipes | Photos | #1,593,834
Jun created Indo Chine Kitchen with the intention "To share cooking experiences and recipes with the 'lost generations' like myself". She shares her knowledge of various Indonesian recipes and cooking secrets, in a way that's easy to understand. Her specialties are the Chinese Indonesian (Peranakan) dishes, and she currently lives in Medan.
05 | Tasty Indonesian Food by Tatie
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | Photos | #1,623,728
A website from Tatie, Indonesian who now lives in Slovenia. Her website was born out of curiosity about how to create a good authentic Indonesian cooking abroad. Beside of stories and recipes, you will also find glossary of Indonesian cooking, including list of ingredients, spices and herbs, along with their explanation and translation to English.
06 | Home MadeS by Arfi Binsted
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | #1,870,159
Arfi is an Indonesian-born Kiwi. She's a self-taught home cook and food photography enthusiast. Her blog consisted of general recipes and cooking tips (not only Indonesian food), and stories from her travels. Arfi currently is living in NZ and is happily married.
07 | Dapur Negeri Dongeng by Sefa Firdaus
Recipes | Photos | #2,325,023
Blog by Sefa on Indonesian food, recipes and cooking experience, along with wonderful photograph of the food and tips on food photography. Sefa is currently living in Germany with her husband.
08 | The (Culinary) Adventures of a Nomad by Avigayil Damm
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | Photos | #3,032,793
A blog on traveling and food adventures. Avigayil's years of service with the Red Cross in various countries had fits well with those two main interests.
09 | Jive Kitchen by unknown
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | Photos | #10,566,799
A note on travel, cooking, and reviews on eateries in Indonesia.
10 | Food Inspiring by debritto
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | Photos | #12,254,367
Blog about culinary journey in Indonesia, and Indonesian food recipes.
11 | Cooking Confidential by Wina Wini
Blog | Recipes | Reviews | Photos | #22,024,775
Blog by a mother of two, sharing her experience in cooking and food appreciating.
FOOD EXPERIENCE
These are food blogs with above 50% of their content focused on food experience and eating out
01 | Jenz Corner by unknown
Blog | Reviews | Photos | #601,959
Jenzcorner.com is a restaurant review blog mostly focusing on restaurants (or hawker stands) in Jakarta, including any other places they have visited.
02 | Selby's Food Corner by Selby
Blog | Reviews | Photos | #972,680
Selby shares her daily adventure in food encounters in Jakarta, especially with the street foods; complete with food photographs.
03 | Epicurina - Epicurean Indonesia by Bayu Amus
Blog | Reviews | Photos | #2,907,465
A blog on good Indonesian food; consisted of food notes on Indonesian famous dishes, Indonesian restaurant and eateries, along with illustrative food photographs. Bayu is currently living in Bali, but had spent most of his life in Jakarta and Bandung, hence why he's quite familiar with food scenes in those three cities.
04 | The Gastronomy Afficionado by Rian Farisa
Blog | Reviews | Photos | #5,582,035
Rian offers seasoned, experienced, yet severe and unmerciful in culinary critics. Gastronomy is his passion, and he decided to unravel how businessmen, hawkers or luxurious restaurants alike, serve their dishes for the patrons.
05 | Camellia's World by Camellia
Blog | Reviews | Photos | #---
Camellia records her daily eating experience accompanied with food pictures, mostly from Jakarta eateries.
FOOD RECIPES
These are food blogs with almost all of their content dedicated solely on food creation and recipes
01 | Merry's Kitchen of Indonesian Cuisine and Recipes by Merry Recipes | #286,120
02 | Original Indonesian Recipe by Juandy Recipes | #2,518,367
03 | Indonesian Culinary by unknown #2,229,122
04 | Kitchen Fun Withti by unknown #2,872,109
05 | Kedai Hamburg by Retno Prihadana #3,471,801
06 | Sylvie's Combuisindo by Sylvie #4,724,632
07 | Chicken Kitchen by Mrs. Baasje #6,416,701
08 | Sweet and Spicy by Aisha #8,422,197
09 | Eats Time With Nath by Nath #8,880,518
10 | Wisata Asia - Indonesian Food Directory by unknown #21,140,480
11 | Cook Uncooked by Lintang Dewani #24,867,800
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