World cuisine in the rice field.

Mexican, Indian or German: In "Sawah" on Java World cuisine - the recipes brought designer Phillip Iswardono from his travels with. In the restaurant of the particular species is only two days a week served, but in a very special atmosphere.

 

High above the stars shine in the bush crickets chirp from a farmhouse in the neighborhood across schallt music, soft light falls on the meadow next to the pergola. The turkeys and guinea fowl in the aviary in the tropical garden, however, have, like the giant Iguana in his cage, the long night's sleep abandoned.

It is Friday evening. And so one of the two days on which the home of Phillip Iswardono Indonesia and its Dutch partner Wim van Kuijken of "The Sawah is. At a restaurant, which actually is not: "The Sawah is no restaurant but a place to eat. ... It is as if you have a nice dinner at the home of friends? The Sawah is above all: our home our sweet home, "write the two on their website.

The restaurant of a different kind can be found at the edge of the famous for its pottery artist village Kasongan in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta on Java - the times in which the pottery from Kasongan for their erotic motives were known, are, however, long ago. Except I was still a Dutch biomedical artist with his French girlfriend, the three-course menu for 120,000 Indonesian Rupees (8.20 Euro) booked. Instead of the elegant dining room, we have the table in the pergola in the garden elected.

World cuisine in the rice field

The designer and the journalist Phil Wim love her airy, with a mixture of Dutch coziness and javanerischer tradition built and furnished house that they are two years ago in the midst of rice fields, small farms, banana trees, palms, bamboo and frangipani trees built. And they love their house, the largest Indonesian island of Java so that others in their small paradise can participate. In the meadow will be Phil and Wim soon a pool and guest cottages built.

The culinary concept of Sawah - translated "rice field" - Phil describes as "World Cuisine". The recipes, the 42-year-old descendant of Javanese Muslim-Christian family of his travels through Asia, Europe and America brought. There are at each Sawah-day only a permanent court, which on the homepage has been announced. Mexican time is on the card, sometimes Thai or German. Today is Indian cuisine announced.

The Sawah as Phils hometown Yogyakarta: cosmopolitan, modern, lively, but also firmly rooted in the traditions such as the Javanese gamelan music, shadow theater games with elaborate figures from buffalo skin, and the art of batik. Yogya, as the people there just call her home town, with its many secular, Catholic and Islamic universities, the academic center of Indonesia's largest Muslim nation in the world.

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The city has a special place in the hearts of all Indonesians. As of Batavia, now Jakarta, nor from the Dutch occupied was served Yogya in the independence struggle against Dutch colonial rule (1945-49) as the capital of Indonesia. To reward the sultanate of Yogyakarta was the status of a special semi-autonomous zone and is the only region of the Republic of Indonesia still governed by a sultan.

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Yogya is a popular tourist destination. Historical Kraton, palace of Sultan, is next to the castle and the bird market, the main attraction in the city. In the vicinity are the famous and UNESCO-protected temples from the 8th Borobodur century (Buddhist) and Prambanan (Hindu) the target of daily tours. Quite daredevils book but trekking up to the still very active volcano Merapi, one during the day and in clear view of the Sawah can see.

Phil is creative when cooking. True to its motto: "We do not have a restaurant? But we love cooking. To experiment. To improvise. We and others to surprise." Cooking is done only with products in the markets have fresh Yogyas are. Is there a vegetable or herb the other not, it will just be replaced by something else. Phil served us as a main dish an authentic Roganjosh with beef. The classic Indian sweet Gulab Jamun for dessert philippinisiert but came to the table: the traditional, in palm sugar syrup cooked Teigbällchen Phillip was summarily replaced by bananas.