TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - TasteAtlas, a site on culinary encyclopedia containing tastes, ingredients, dishes, and authentic restaurants worldwide, has recently crowned Indonesian pecel as one of the tastiest salad types in the world.
TasteAtlas defines pecel as a type of salad with a distinctive aroma of peanut sauce, with a sweet and spicy taste. Pecel, commonly eaten with rice and side dishes, has received a rating of 4.3/5. This rating places pecel at the 8th position as the tastiest salad in the world. Here is the list of the tastiest salads in the world.
- Dakos from Greece with a rating of 4.5/5.
- Horiatiki Salata from Greece with a rating of 4.4/5.
- Houria from Tunisia with a rating of 4.4/5.
- Caprese Salad from Italy with a rating of 4.3/5.
- Fattoush from Lebanon with a rating of 4.3/5.
- Kisir from Turkey with a rating of 4.3/5.
- Shopska Salata from Bulgaria with a rating of 4.3/5.
- Pecel from Indonesia with a rating of 4.3/5.
- Pai Huang Gua from China with a rating of 4.3/5.
- Piyaz from Turkey with a rating of 4.3/5.
Recommended Best Pecel Rice Stalls
Not only ratings, TasteAtlas also provides several options for rice stalls that sell pecel rice and can be considered as options. Here are 7 recommended locations that have received ratings from food critics, including:
- Depot Nasi Pecel 99 located in Madiun, East Java.
- Sego Pecel (SGPC) Bu Wiryo 1959 in Sleman, Yogyakarta.
- Pecel Pincuk Kalibata in South Jakarta, Jakarta.
- Pecel Kawi in Malang, East Java.
- Nasi Pecel Mbak Ira in Depok, West Java.
- Pecel Bu Joyo in Surabaya, East Java.
- Warung Nasi Pecel Yu Gembrot in Madiun, East Java.
Other Indonesian Foods Included in the Tastiest Foods
TasteAtlas also lists other typical Indonesian foods under a different category of the tastiest foods. Ketoprak enters the list of the tastiest salads in the world at the 12th position.
Then, Rawon ranks 8th as the tastiest food in the world with a rating of 4.62/5, followed by pempek at the 23rd position with a rating of 4.54/5. Fried rice also made it to the list of the tastiest foods at the 33rd position and received a rating of 4.52/5.
The presence of pecel and several other typical Indonesian foods makes Indonesia a country with the tastiest foods in the world. TasteAtlas places Indonesia in the 7th position as a country with traditional cuisine, spices, and foods from various regions, with a rating of 4.48/5.
Editor's Choice: TasteAtlas' 10 Best Salads in the World, Indonesia's Pecel Included
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