My Father’s Gado-Gado Recipe Is the Key to My Indonesian Heritage
“Recreating his recipe from my memory feels like finding a key to a secret door.”
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8 min readOct 10, 2019
One of my first memories in the kitchen is of my father cooking peanut sauce. I would settle on one of the stools at the kitchen island after school, and watch him. He’d be stooped over the stove, stirring a sauce pot…