Gado Gado is a mixed vegetable salad served with a peanut sauce dressing and pouring kerupuk on the top. It’s a favorite traditional dish in Indonesia. Although it is to be eaten as a main meal, many Western countries describe it simply as a salad. But gado-gado is different with salad. Is widely served from hawkers carts, stalls (warung) as well as in restaurants or hotel both in Indonesia and worldwide. The exact composition of the vegetable salad varies, but usually compromises some form of mixture cabbage, string bean, carrot (sometimes), sliced boiled potatoes, slice boiled eggs (not all stalls uses this because makes price of gado-gado more expensive), slice of fried tofu, slice of fried tempe, kerupuk or emping (or both), uncooked cucumber and lettuce, plus friend onion. By the way, emping is friend cracker made from melinjo. In Indonesia usually peanut sauce mixed with chilli pepper ... so hot in your mouth when you eat that. Or you can added terasi (dried shrimp/fish paste) if you like it. Hhmmm, delicious. Gado-gado is usually served with rice or lontong (rice cake in banana leave wrapped) or ketupat (rice cake in coconut leaf). Also you just can eat only gado-gado. The price gado-gado with rice or lontong are same. The price gado-gado in stall usually only IDR 5.000. But gado-gado in hotel or restaurant of course have difference price. Today, peanut sauce for gado-gado sale in dried block to which add hot water can you buy in many store even traditional market.
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