Friday’s Featured Food: Indonesian Buffet Lunch in Yogyakarta

Today’s Friday’s Featured Food comes from Indonesia. A country I have been to only once so far, and I visited Java and Bali when I was there. I preferred Java, especially the central Java region which houses both Prambanan and Borobudur. On an essential day long tour of the Yogyakarta region, we took time out in the heat to sample an Indonesian Buffet, a rather more posh and elegant one rather than your normal backpacker corner market experience. The quality certainly showed as my travel buddy Rodrigo and I burst open the Bintang beers and chilled out over lunch!

The restaurant was inside the walls called The Kraton, in Yogyakarta. It was an all you can eat buffet. In the heat and having not eating since 7am, we got tore into it. It was a mighty fine selection, including the following, more pictures than words today, as this buffet had so much variation I got snap happy:

The price of this buffet was included in our tour cost for the day so I can’t remember the exact cost, I’d estimate around $6 US Dollars with the beer as an extra. I was there in January 2012. During the meal we were also treated to Indonesian style dancing and music.

As we ate and drank to our heart’s content, Rodrigo and I planned a few of our upcoming adventures, next up would be sightseeing in Jakarta as well as a visit to the Stadium Nightclub there before we were flying to Bali.

The guys that served us were very welcoming and friendly and our fellow restaurant customers were mostly foreigners.

That means that this was a touristy style Indonesian buffet, rather than a completely local experience, which we got down to later on. If you do a full day tour of Yogyakarta, you might be taken to this place and I really recommend it. I’m not a food fiend on my travels but I loved this food!!

By the way don’t miss my overviews on my visits to Prambanan and Borobudur on the very same day!

A Video from my Indonesian all you can eat buffet!

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