Some of Padang Dishes

This is Sambal Ijo (Green chillies sauce).  I love this samba ijo, you can eat with steamed rice and whatever food that accompany it,  either chicken curry, grilled fish, steam vegetable or tempe or just with fried egg! Basically this sambal ijo is really a good complement for everything, as sambal ulek.  

I know this sambal Ijo from my relatives who is originally from West Sumatra. One time they prepared "Teri sambal ijo - Sambal Ijo with a little anchovy. That's so damn good!!!! I just love eating this menu with steamed rice only.  I can eat more than one plate if I don't remember that I can't eat too much carb! This little anchovy is really something to me! Very powerful and tasty. 

I am originally from East Java and my mom is cooking a lot of Javanese cuisine. I have no clue either about how to make this kinda of food at the beginning. As I like it so much  so am trying to nail it.  I am very lucky to have relatives from West Sumatra and one of my best friends also from West Sumatra so they share the recipe with me. 

This is Telur balado - Egg Balado. This is sambal balado is the second thing after sambal ijo, when I am preparing a Nasi Padang. It's like sambal Ijo, this balado is one of the base ingredients to make all kinda of dishes : Dendeng balado, Teri Balado etc.

Teri Balado

Padang cuisine is very addictive as it is very rich on taste of spicy and savoury.  In my country, this is one of the famous cuisine. It's not only in a restaurant you can find Padang cuisine, so many warung "street food vendor" also served this cuisine. They even make it so good as they served it with banana leaves as a plate on the go. It called "Nasi bungkus Padang".

Now .. I really do wanna go to Padang to eat the originally cuisine, lol.