Gado Gado - Indonesian salad with tofu, egg, veggies with a peanut sauce
Indo Kitchen - Alhambra, CA
Our 14 course meal started with Gado Gado, which is an Indonesian salad with tofu, egg, veggies, shrimp chips topped with a peanut sauce. Whenever I've had this dish in the past, it's always been a disappointment. I think a lot of it had to do with the sauce. Either the sauce was too thick, too thin and/or just lacked punch. I've also had Gado Gado where it was made up of primarily lettuce which the sauce would make limp. Yuck!
Indo Kitchen's Gado Gado; however, was a hit with me. First, I liked the use of cabbage and other crunchy veggies like bean sprouts and green beans. The eating texture was just so much fun. The peanut sauce was also amazing. Its consistency was just right because it clung to the ingredients as opposed to being absorbed by them. Also, you can definitely tell that more than peanuts went into the sauce, evident by the various spice specks mixed into its liquid goodness, which definitely contributed to a more flavorful kick to your palate.
Overall, other than one or two dishes that weren't that exciting, I'd say that so far Indo Kitchen is definitely my favorite Indonesian kitchen.
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Would you eat here again? Yes
