Colonialism Food

In this coming week i'll post something that talk about indonesian culinary. When u think of indonesian food, our food is actually never originated from indonesia but it is influenced by a lot of western ( mainly Dutch, French , and Portuguese) , chinese and indian, and Middle eastern culture.

Have u wondered that there are some foods that we eat in indonesia that actually comes from dutch colonialism?

1. Ceres ( Chocolate sprinkles )
ceres is not originated from Indonesia, but it is bring to Indonesia by the dutch and they called it hagelslag. Dutch used to eat it with bread and butter like we always do in Indonesia

2. Kroket( Croquette)
Made from mash potatoes filled with minced beef or ragout feeling, coated with bread crumb and then deep fried. Croquette is actually from French, however it is very famous in Netherlands that they even sell in McDonald there. Moreover the dutch invented name for the smaller size croquette which is called bitterballen.

3. Perkedel( Frikadel potato/ Potato patties)
Frikadel itself is actually dutch meat loaf or sometimes it can refer to a kind of deep fried meat patties, but i don't have any ideas why they start to make a vegetarian frikadel that we know as perkedel ? I'll find out sooner or later

4. Spekkoek ( Kue lapis/ Layer cake )
OMG i've never know it until today that this layer cake is actually from ducth colonialism. To know more about the cake u can go to foodngarden.com and go find the blog about spekkoek and u'll find interesting fact that lapis is actually not an indonesian language but it is dutch from laa pees = layer

From today research these are the food that i could find but i'll promise to do more research, so that we know what we are eating and where it's come from.