Sydney Indonesian Food Recommendation: Shalom
Since my uni is situated in the middle of Sydney, I’ve had the luxury of having many options when it comes to chow time 
You know, I could have sworn that in my first year at uni, I gained an extra 5 kg! Goddamn because of McDonalds there. Also because I kinda slacked off from pounding the pavements that year.
Present weight: 68.5kg (with a height of bout 1.72m)
Don’t know whether that’s still good or bad. But considering how I still look like a bean-pole in front of the mirror, I think I’m still under the ‘acceptable’ category.
Anyway, I digress. Back to the topic at hand
My favourite place of all is Shalom, situated along Broadway, a little way down from the Broadway Shopping Centre. It hands down sells the spiciest Indonesian food in Sydney. I don’t just love this place, I think I’m addicted to it 
Since I was a Malay/Mamak food addict, and because there are very few original Malay/Mamak food in Sydney, I had to substitute my cravings to Indonesian food here. To tell the truth, I haven’t even eaten anything non-chicken at Shalom yet. Every time I go there (which is quite often) I will only order either 71C (Ayam Bakar with fresh chili) or 73 (Ayam Goreng with fresh chili). To me, these two dishes with their stupendous fresh chili paste is heaven. Indonesian food differs greatly from Malay food due to that. Malay food doesn’t have fresh chopped chili paste, it only has sambal (which is also good, incidentally).
Odd name for an Indo joint as Shalom is a Jewish/Hebrew term!
Comment by ShaolinTiger — January 5, 2007 @ 6:18 am
Yeah, I know huh? They’re devout Christian Chinese-Indons though. So maybe that has got something to do with the name.
Comment by sigma — January 5, 2007 @ 7:05 am