COOKING CLASSES

Learn how to cook a traditional indonesian dish.

Get in touch with the locals.

Indonesian cuisine often demonstrates complex flavours, acquired from certain ingredients and bumbus spice mixture, spend some time with our chefs and learn some new recipes to take home & share with your friends & family.
Indonesian dishes have rich flavours; most often described as gurih (savory) and pedas (hot and spicy), and also combination of basic tastes such as manis (sweet), asin (salty), asam (sour) and pahit (bitter).

Six main Indonesian cooking methods are:

goreng (frying)
bakar (roasting)
panggang (grilling)
tumis (stir frying)
rebus (boiling)
kukus (steaming)

Indonesia is the home of sate, one of the country’s most popular dishes. There are many variants across Indonesia.

Some popular Indonesian dishes such as nasi goreng, gado-gado, rendang, sate and soto are famous in the country and considered as national dishes.

OPTION 1

Cooking class at On the Rocks

Enjoy cooking in our On the Rocks kitchen. Choose a dish out of our menu and cook your lunch or dinner. Our kitchen crew will be happy to explain all the ingredients and cooking techniques.
After the cooking class you will get a “cook@home”-kit

OPTION 2

Cooking class with a indonesian family in the village

Get in touch with a lovely local family. The family has 3 kids and is living in the Bukit Lawang complex. They are happy to welcome you in their home.
First meet “Dewi” to go shopping for the ingredients. If your cooking class in on a friday, the shopping will take place on the local market near to the bus station.
Afterwards start the cooking class in her home and meet the other family members.
Enjoy your meal with the family on their terrace and watch the local kids playing in that street. Get intouch with the culture and the traditions.
After the cooking class you will get a “cook@home”-kit