Rujak: The Spiced Fruit Salad Family
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Description
Rujak (rojak in Malay) is the Indonesian fruit salad tradition — but calling it "fruit salad" is like calling rendang "beef stew." Rujak is fruit dressed in a SAVOURY, spiced dressing that transforms sweet fruit into a complex, multi-flavour preparation. The sweet-savoury-hot-sour interplay is the point — rujak is the Indonesian krob rot (four-flavour balance, Thai TD-01) applied to fruit.
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The Thread
—Thai som tam (same green-fruit-plus-savoury-dressing principle — papaya instead of mixed fruits), Filipino achara (same sweet-sour fruit/vegetable preparation), Malaysian rojak (same dish, different n
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