You have been out of Spain for a quite long time. Has your culinary style ever changed since then?
Before joining DoubleTree, I used to work in Shanghai, China. For me, Asian cuisine is really mesmerizing yet bewildering. Each country has many culinary style and technique. Thus, I really love to explore local restaurants and traditional market when I have spare time. Of course my culinary style has changed as I immense deeper into local cuisine.
Sometimes I add some local twist in my food by using local ingredients. But it is actually easy to learn local recipes because Spanish and Indonesian have some similarities.
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Based on your observation, what are the similarities between Indonesian and Spanish food?
Well, since our countries are so far apart, I don't think Indonesian and Spanish have much in common. Perhaps we like to put coconut milk to our food generously.
Spanish really love stew, and they often mix coconut milk into broth to make foods thick and curry-like. I believe coconut milk is used in some Indonesian food, like rendang. Thus rendang is my favorite food. It reminds me of Spain in some ways (laugh).
