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Best Nasi pecel in San Francisco
“Rice with cooked vegetables in peanut sauce, crowned with fried tempeh and crackers—a Javanese staple.”
What the real thing tastes like
Nasi pecel also known as Sega pecel in Javanese is an Indonesian rice dish from Java served with pecel (cooked vegetables and peanut sauce). The vegetables are usually kangkung or water spinach, long beans, cassava leaves, papaya leaves, and in East Java often used the flower of kembang turi. It is often eaten with fried tempeh and traditional crackers called peyek. It is popular in East and Central Java.
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Nasi pecel is a Javanese rice bowl where the real story unfolds in the pecel—a cooked vegetable and peanut sauce that clings to kangkung, long beans, cassava leaves, and papaya leaves. East Java adds its own signature with kembang turi flowers, those delicate blooms bringing subtle floral notes. Fried tempeh and crispy peyek crackers turn it into something with actual texture, actual grip on the plate.
Order it here when it has
- vegetable-forward
- textural contrast
- regionally distinctive
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