The rice is cooked so it’s thick and hearty, but straightforward to go down, and whereas it can be ready with any assortment of toppings, chicken is doubtless one of the hottest. At Bubur Ayam, some of the well-known spots in Jakarta for rice porridge, a bowl comes topped with shredded rooster, and you usually eat it together with skewers of fried chicken coronary heart and other organs. Sayur asem is a sour tamarind soup that jogged my memory lots of Filipino sinigang or a quantity of southern Thai bitter soups, as a end result of it was very sour …