Rice with a Selection of Dishes

If you want to eat quickly, and don’t want to go out and look for a nasi Padang, then you won’t go wrong if you choose nasi rames. This is indeed a meal in itself, a plate of plain boiled or steamed white rice – nasi putih – with four or five different dishes. In Java, the choice for the meat dish would normally be sambal goreng, made of chicken or beef, or chicken with hard-boiled eggs. For the vegetables, it could be a tumis, for instance tumis buncis, French beans sautéed with some spice