Hey, guys, welcome back to Camera Eats First.
Today, we're going to be going on a little expedition around Darwin.
We're going to actually sample a little bit from the Indonesian cuisine.
So I'm looking forward to it because this is the first time
I'm dipping my big toe into Indonesian cuisine and
I'm pretty hungry because I haven't eaten all day.
So, let's make it happen.
Yeah, I don't know much about Indonesian food.
In fact, the most meal about Indonesia
'Selamat pagi, apa kabar'.
I learned that in high school, I have no idea
about what the main dishes are, how they cook.
Nothing.
So I'm going in completely blind.
So we're here at Borneo intersection,
which is a combination of Indonesian and Malaysian cuisine.
So we're here right on lunch time.
So we couldn't have picked a better time to be here, and everything's
cooked fresh and everyone's hungry looking for what to eat.
Let's get in there.
Oh, hello, my name is Sarah Madina.
Yeah, this is my shop.
Borneo Intersection.
We're selling Indonesian and Malaysian food.
So what do we have here?
We have Nasi Campur Beef Rendang.
You can have a coconut rice with greens 'kang kong'
The popular beef rendang, chilli egg, chilli eggplant and anchovies.
This one is a kind of dessert and made from
fried jackfruit and banana caramel
with a springroll pastry on it.
*moans*
I'm going to do my best to remember exactly what these are.
Just remember, this is so foreign to me.
Coconut rice with anchovies, fried anchovies.
I think that's 'kang kang', a boiled egg with chilli and eggplant
And this is
beef.
Yeah.
Look, I'll be lying if I can remember what it was,
but it's some sort of beef in some sort of curry.
And it looks delicious.
Over here,
we've got a veggie option.
It's sort of like naan bread.
It's a hard tofu,
tempeh, got a bit of corn.
You got a bit of eggplant. We've got a bit of cucumber.
We've got some carrot, all in some sort of whiz bang curry, herbs and spices.
Probably more spices than herbs.
I was going to say this is like you're...
Like an Indonesian vegetarian yiros.
So here we go.
It's good. It's got like
the softness of the tofu, I think it's got nuts in it,
which makes it like a little bit crunchy as well.
And you got like different textures.
Mm hmm.
Oh, and the chilli.
That gives you a bit of a wake up.
Wasn't expecting that one.
There's a tendency
with grains or any sort of veggies to just smash it with salt
and then you just lose like the essence of the flavour.
Whereas that is like cooked
to crunchiness perfection while it's still wilted
and you actually get the flavour of what I'm actually trying to eat.
Well, that's a surprise.
I thought it was going to be much hotter.
Oh, there it is. Kicking in.
I shouldn't have spoken so quickly...
I'm starting to get the vibe from this, like it's
all the flavours are pretty subtle.
There's nothing really overpowering even the chilli, and this is like pretty chill.
Heh, pretty chill.
Get it? Yeah, the chilli's kicked in.
I'm not a stranger to anchovies.
I love anchovies.
This is only going to go one way.
You know everything that I said about the salt that goes out the window
with anchovies.
Get a bit more of this rice in there.
Some sort of curried beef.
Wow.
Oh, that is good.
That is so delicious.
And with this coconut rice, we'll throw in some
some anchovies. See how that goes.
I think that's the title of the food today.
You can't pick everything that's in it because everything is just added, so
subtly it all contributes to the overall flavour.
There's nothing that overpowers
except for the anchovies.
My favourite is the beef.
I think it'scooked perfectly because it just
falls apart in your mouth and it's really tender.
And then again, the flavours are really subtle,
but that that's a consistent across everything that I mean,
everything is subtle.
Anything fried in pastry
is going to be amazing.
That's exactly what I expected it to be.
Crunchy and soft in the middle
bit of honey
and then like a lovely caramel
banana on the inside.
Any jackfruit? I think there's jackfruit.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's me done.
I feel like that definitely
was an intersection of different flavours.
The first time that I've experienced
some sort of Indonesian Malaysian cuisine
that roti wrap with the tofu and the nuts
and the cucumber and everything else that party that was going on in there
that for me, was my favourite.
Thank you, Borneo intersection for letting us
come into your lovely cuisine, inviting us onto your table. It's a pleasure,
and thank you to all the viewers for watching Camera Eats First.
We'll see you next time
If you guys want to try
some Indonesian and Malaysian food, come down to Casuarina Food Court.
See our shop here. See you guys!