This is a take on chef Roy Choi’s Dynamite rice. Two important notes: 1) I’ve never had the real dish at his restaurant; what I made is based on the numerous copycat recipes floating round online, and 2) I used teriyaki chicken instead of uni. The one time I had uni in Japan it tasted…
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Opor Ayam (Indonesian Coconut Milk Chicken)
Here’s another version of opor ayum that’s just as delicious as this version, but with a bit of a different flavor profile. It shows how different parts of Indonesia interpret the same dishes. Javanese often make this mild curry for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Fitr. And the lack of hot peppers in the foundational…

