While the cafe’s theme personifies old-west feeling, it also celebrates Indonesia’s diverse flavors.
One of the iconic appetizers here is called Spageti Salmon Oven Dabu (Spagetti with roasted salmon and raw red chilli peppers and tomatoes sambal).
The portion is too big to be called “appetizer”; and no one in this world (not even the most daring Italian chef) combines spagetti with raw-spicy condiment like dabu-dabu sambal, famous among Manadonese of North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
None of them matters, because it tastes amazing.
Spageti Salmon Oven Dabu imagined juicy roasted salmon smothered in sweet yet savory dabu-dabu sambal?
Yes, please!
The smoothness of spagetti adds eclectic feeling in every bite. In short, it tastes similar to pasta aglio e olio, but spicier, and better.
Bear Hounds cafe has Ayam Bakar Sambal Matah (roast chicken with raw shallot and lemongrass sambal) as the main course, highly popular today among Indonesians sambal lovers.
I believe the chef used a half part of a chicken in every dish.
The chicken is big. And thank God the rice’s portion is equal to the roast chicken, so I didn’t have leftover food when I finished my eating.
