sembals

Updated: May 18, 2025

Each plate is heaped with a mound of rice, on which scraps of innumerable ingredients are placed meat, fish, fowl, duck, prawns, curry, fried bananas, and nameless vegetables, together with chilis and chutneys, sembals, spices, and grated cocoanut, in bewildering profusion.

Emily Richings - Through the Malay Archipelago