40 of Indonesia's best dishes

The best Indonesian foods are hands down the old school, simple, traditional ones that you get from kaki limas. Kaki lima (meaning five legs) is a terminology for an Indonesian food cart (3 wooden 'legs' and 1 front wheel) which is rolled down the city streets by a seller (the 2 legs). OK, so of course if you're not used to 'street food' you risk catching some variation of Bali belly. But I'm sure that 7.5 out of 10 times you will probably be fine... Here is the complete list of the best 40 Indonesian dishes compiled by CNN. My goal is to attempt to cook every single one of them at some point while living in Europe, and where possible substituting the tropical ingredients with local produce I can find here. A bit of a Euro-Indo fusion ;) 

1. Sambal: a chili-based sauce
2. Satay: meat on sticks with peanut sauce 
3. Bakso: meatball soup
4. Soto: coconut-milk based soup
5. Nasi goreng: fried rice
6. Gado-gado: steamed vegetables doused in peanut sauce
7. Nasi uduk: coconut rice
8. Nasi padang: a rijsttafel with super spicy Sumatran side dishes
9. Ayam goreng: fried chicken with chili
10. Mie goreng: fried noodles
11. Gudeg: Javanese sweet and coconut-y jackfruit stew
12. Rawon: dark, sticky and sweet East Javanese beef stew
13. Pecel lele: fried catfish served with raw green vegetables and sambal
14. Opor ayam: silky white coconut-milk based chicken curry
15. Mie ayam: braised chicken and noodle soup
16. Babi guling: pig-on-a-spit
17. Gulai: North Sumatran curry 
18. Bubur ayam: chicken congee
19. Bakpao: sweet (chocolate or red-bean paste filling) or savoury (chicken) buns
20. Asinan sayur: picked vegetable salad
21. Cah kangkung: stir fried water spinach
22. Pepes ikan: steamed spicy fish
23. Pempek: South Sumatran fish cakes
24. Perkadel: corn fritters
25. Martabak: sweet or sour multi layered pancakes
26. Sayur asem: tamarind-based vegetable soup
27. Sop buntut: oxtail soup
28. Ketoprak: vermicelli, tofu and rice cake salad doused in spicy peanut sauce
29. Balado terong: spicy eggplant
30. Lontong sayur: rice cake in yellow coconut-milk based curry
31. Rendang: the BEST melt-in-your-mouth beef curry
32. Tahu gejrot: fried tofu
33. Sop kambing: clear goat soup
34. Siomay: dumplings
35. Ikan bakar: grilled fish
36. Daun papaya: papaya leaves stir fry
37. Otak otak: another fish cake
38. Bebek goreng: fried duck
39. Gorengan: anything deep fried
40. Indomie: the revered Indonesian instant noodles, possibly Indonesia's biggest export