Padang Cuisine: The Restaurant Where You Don't Order
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Description
Padang restaurants (rumah makan Padang) — originating from the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra — operate on a system unique in world dining: you sit down and every dish on the menu is brought to your table simultaneously, stacked in a tower of small plates. You eat what you want. You are charged only for the plates you have touched. Untouched plates are returned to the stack for the next customer. This is not buffet — it is an honour system that has operated for centuries.
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The Thread
—Ethiopian injera platter (multiple dishes served simultaneously on a shared surface — same "choose what you eat" philosophy), Japanese izakaya (many small plates — similar in scale but ordered individ
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