There are plenty of restaurants in Dili, from local, Italian, Portuguese to Australian. Most popular in the evenings are the seafood BBQ places east of Dili on the beach. Timorese and Indonesian warungs, where you pick your food from the window, are everywhere and cost $1.50-$3.00 for a typical meal. One of the most popular is on the road from the Cathedral to Bairo Pite - look for the blue and white decor and "nasi campur" written in the window. Pick from tasty fried chicken, shoe-leather(とても堅い)rendang or egg, then add a couple of vegetable dishes. $1.75 including bean and cabbage soup (koto) and iced tea. (http://wikitravel.org/en/Dili)
What does it look like, shoe-leather(とても堅い)rendang ? It was said thet starving soldiers nibbled their shoe sole during the World War II. What does it taste by your sense ?
(2014.08.19 21:13:06)
>What does it look like, shoe-leather(とても堅い)rendang ?
It is made by simmering beef for hours in coconut milk and spices until the liquid has evaporated. The meat is very hard so you think ai if you are chewing gum.
>It was said thet starving soldiers nibbled their shoe sole during the World War II. >What does it taste by your sense ?
I think it has no taste. So you need to add lotsu of spicies. (2014.08.20 08:20:46)