that portrays her experience with her Australian friends while living in Australia.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h2>\nThe story starts with them getting bread for breakfast, and Stephanie Dish\u2013being the Indonesian she is\u2013wants her bread with chocolate and cheese fillings. Unexpectedly, her Australian friend(s) (portrayed by herself) sees it as a very weird combination! Stephanie says that it\u2019s an Indonesian traditional food at first, but then denies it and says that it\u2019s a culture.<\/span><\/p>\nThis is quite the fresh and unique take of a simple flavor combination that we all think is normal (and undoubtedly delicious). Cheese in desserts is nothing new in the Western culture, cheese cake, cream cheese cookies, puddings, and many more. But chocolate and cheese, not so much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h4>\nSalt is a welcomed flavor in indonesia.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nMany sweet snacks sold in local traditional food stalls (warung) usually offer cheese as a complimentary topping. Another reason is that this roots from the Dutch colonization in Indonesia back in the 19th to early 20th century. The infamous Roti Bakar Coklat Keju we all love is firstly introduced by them. Grilled bread, chocolate sprinkles (meises), and western-style cheese. It later became a trend in 1994 when Kraft Cheese just launched their product (which then became the all-time choice of brand to make sweet snacks like grilled bananas, martabak, grilled bread, grilled corn, and many more).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h4>\nWe grow up eating chocolate and cheese in our desserts\/sweet snacks.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nIt\u2019s like the two delicious flavors that makes it way much more delicious together. In fact, Tasia Seger, the co-owner and chef at Makan in Melbourne tells SBS Food that the combination \u201cis very complimentary and gives this other level of flavor.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h4>\nThis combination also sparks late-night snacks.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nWhen we are feeling hungry or bored at night above 10 PM, usually roti bakar and\/or pisang bakar with cheese and chocolate is such a comforting dish to munch at night.<\/span><\/p>\nNow back to our original question, is chocolate and cheese really just an Indonesian thing?<\/p>\n
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It may be not originally made by Indonesians, but it surely is a culture\/habit we all Indonesians might have shaped!<\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pairing of chocolate and cheese is quite unlikely for other countries, yet so popular across many Indonesia\u2019s favorite desserts. Whether it\u2019s martabak, bread, cookies, baked goods, and many more. But apparently, it\u2019s not so much of a popular pairing outside Indonesia. Stephanie Dish, one of Indonesia\u2019s famous TikTok celebrities posted a TikTok video that […]","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":5418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_joinchat":[]},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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