Trip to Indonesia

What can you do when you don't have time/money to go abroad for a holiday? Visit an ethnic restaurant for a taste of something new. Recently we visited one of Taipei's oldest Indonesian restaurants, the Pondok Mutiara Restaurant on Fuxing North Road.

Vivian anticipates a tasty meal

For starters, the Gado Gado salad, a traditional beginning dish. Bean sprouts, cucumber, shrimp cakes, nut sauce and more

The beef curry was a hit

The chicken curry was also good, though similar to many of the local curries I thought

But the real winner of the night was the beef satay. We even bought a dried cube of satay to take home to use at our Mid-Autumn Festival BBQ the following weekend