Gado-gado is a vegetable dish, a standalone dish rather than a side dish, that is smothered with peanut sauce. Smothered — unlike Western salads that are often lightly tossed with the dressing. It’s hawker food.
If you visit the Royal Caribbean site and look at the details of Asian cruises, there is often a notice that menus would be adapted to the preferences of the predominantly Asian passengers. So, there were dishes like the Indonesian gado-gado in the main dining room. The problem is that gado-gado is a hawker food and when it is served as gourmet stuff, with all the sophisticated flourish, it just doesn’t taste the same. Plain. Bland. Unsatisfying.
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