Feast and celebrations: Tumpeng and Rijsttafel

Many parties and ceremonies in traditional Indonesian customs involving food and partying. One of the best examples is the cone. Tumpeng came from Java, a rice-shaped cone surrounded by a wide range of Indonesian cuisine. Tumpeng usually exist in the celebration of "salvation". Rice cone printed using cone-shaped bamboo, rice itself can be plain white rice, rice uduk (cooked with coconut milk), or yellow rice (tinged with "saffron"). Rice is surrounded by typical Indonesian dishes such as vegetables Urap, fried chicken, stew meat, beans anchovies, fried shrimp, egg pindang, rolls omelet slices, tempeh orek, meatball potatoes, corn meatball, sambal goreng ati, and others. Tumpeng derived from customs and beliefs native Indonesian people who glorify the mountain as the dwelling place of gods or ancestral spirits. Rice conical shape is meant to imitate the sacred mountain. The celebration is intended as a form of gratitude for the abundance of the harvest and all other blessings of the Almighty. Because it has a value of celebration and thanksgiving, until now tumpeng often serves as a "birthday cake version of Indonesia."

Indonesia is another feast Rijstafel (Dutch: rice table), this cuisine showcased elegant luxury junket typical of the rich in the colonial period as well as showing the diversity of Indonesian culinary art. Classical Rijstafel consisting of 40 kinds of cuisine that is served by 40 waiters who go barefoot, wearing a white formal dress uniform, blangkon, and batik cloth wrapped around their waists. Contemporary Indonesian party when it adopted Western-style buffet dishes. Also called a buffet or sideboard can usually be found at the wedding or other celebration. The buffet is served at a long table. The layout of the wedding buffet in Indonesia usually consists of: plates, cutlery (spoons and forks), napkin tissue, placed at the tip, followed by grain rice (white rice and fried rice), a series of typical Indonesian cuisine and is sometimes presented too foreign dishes, chili, crackers, and ends with a glass of water or soft drinks at the end of the buffet table.