Spiced Grilled Fish

Wherever you go in Indonesia, especially on the tourist routes, you will find ikan bakar, and each region will claim that its ikan bakar is the best. I had this freshwater fish grilled over charcoal in a small restaurant by Lake Maninjau. It was a beautiful spot, on the edge of the lake where people could safely swim. There were several small dugout perahu, each with a single fisherman fishing with a net for pensi, which are small cockles. The fish for the ikan bakar was a gurami, not from