Indo Cafe's Beef Rendang Sapi
It was EAT99 night at Indo Cafe -- an easy-to-miss strip mall restaurant with a small and strange parking lot at 137th St North. Four friends joined me to make a deep dent in their expansive "Indo Dutch" menu (which you'll learn about in your homework assignment below). Indonesian food is so rare in Seattle, we felt like kid foodies playing in a brand-new food playground. Usually, one taste will announce itself so definitively during a meal that I have no question what the featured dish should be; however, for this dinner, all of the dishes fought so valiantly for first place that a winner was not clear. At all . I actually felt a little panicked about it, so I asked my friends to weigh in. Here is how the conversation went: 1) Beef Rendang Sapi, tender dry beef curry slow-cooked with coconut sauce, topped with a hard boiled egg and shrimp crackers. The most expensive dish at $16.95 (and it was a full plate of beef!). "This reminds me why I loved pot roast as a kid