Chimbridge Singlish Dictionary

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noun

1. a dish consisting of vegetables stewed until soft in a coconut milk and usually prawn-stock-based curry. It has origins in Javanese cuisine, in the city of Yogyakarta. In Singaporean Peranakan cuisine, compressed rice cylinders called lontong or nasi impit are often added to it, to create a dish that is also referred to as lontong.

While sayur lodeh is straightforward to make, its origins are complex. Some scholars believe the tradition stretches back to central Java’s civilisational heyday in the 10th Century, …

— 2020 May 12, Scott Anthony. BBC, "A Javanese dish to banish the plague". https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200506-a-javanese-dish-to-banish-the-plague