Talk:Rendang/@comment-79.124.14.111-20100522121213

This is a regional, traditional dish of Minang people from Padang, West Sumatra and has no connection with Malaysia at all. The beef is supposed to be cooked all the time in coconut milk, no turmeric is added and what is called bay leaf here must be what is known as "Indonesian Bay Leaf" called in Indonesia "Daun salam". Another basic spice for Rendang is the Lemon Grass - not mentioned here. I am Bulgarian, but I have lived totally eight years in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. I noticed the tendency Malaysians very impudently to "pirate" some typical Indonesian customs, songs, dishes etc. and to present them as typical Malaysian. It made me laugh when I've seen on the TV a Malaysian tourists oriented commercial where the "Leather Puppets" (Wayang Kulit - an art belonging exclusively to the Javanese culture) were played by a woman wearing a headscarf!