# The tastiest Indonesian dishes

The Indonesian dishes most often named the most delicious, including rendang and nasi goreng, once voted the world's best foods by CNN readers.

- 25 votes · 16 items
- Nov 19, 2023 · Dian Siregar
- https://even.best/en/l/193/the-tastiest-indonesian-dishes

## Top 15

1. **Nasi goreng** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Fried rice with sweet soy sauce, shallots, egg and chicken or prawns; second in the CNN poll.
2. **Rendang** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Beef cooked for hours in coconut milk and Minangkabau spices; first in CNN's world's best foods poll.
3. **Gado-gado** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Boiled vegetables, tofu, tempeh, egg and rice cakes with peanut sauce, from Jakarta.
4. **Coto Makassar** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Beef and offal soup with peanut broth, eaten with ketupat.
5. **Ayam penyet** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fried chicken smashed into spicy sambal, from East Java.
6. **Sate Madura** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Chicken or goat skewers grilled with peanut and soy sauce.
7. **Soto ayam** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Turmeric-yellow chicken soup with glass noodles, egg and koya; every region has its own.
8. **Bakso Malang** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Beef meatballs with noodles, tofu and fried wontons in broth.
9. **Pempek Palembang** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mackerel and sago fish cakes with sour-spicy cuko sauce.
10. **Gudeg Yogyakarta** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Young jackfruit cooked with coconut milk and palm sugar, sweet and rich.
11. **Ayam betutu** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Whole chicken in Balinese base genep spice paste, roasted or steamed for hours.
12. **Babi guling** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Balinese spit-roasted whole pig with spices.
13. **Martabak manis** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Thick sweet pancake with chocolate, cheese and peanuts, a favourite night snack.
14. **Mie Aceh** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thick, spicy curried noodles with meat or seafood.
15. **Nasi uduk** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Coconut rice with fried chicken and sambal, a Betawi dish.
16. **Rawon** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Black beef soup coloured with kluwek nuts, from East Java.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.