Adas Cina

Anethum graveolens (‘Chinese acias’; also adas manis, ‘sweet adas’). This, according to Burkill, is the English dill, but I suspect there is a good deal of confusion in Indonesia between dill and fennel (both called adas), just as there is between cumin and caraway (both called jinten). When you are shopping in the market, you are naturally more concerned with freshness and flavour than with fine botanical distinctions. All these plants are members of the Umbelliferae family, and all are ‘stomachic and carminative’—that is, they help you to get rid of surplus wind.