Dina Yuen

Indonesian Cooking: Satays, Sambals and More is a cookbook about Indonesian cuisine by the businesswoman and chef Dina Yuen. It was published in 2012 by Tuttle Publishing.

Author's background Dina Yuen, a Chinese-Russian businesswoman and chef, wrote the cookbook with the aim of having it accessible to everyone interested in using its recipes. When she was 12 years old, Yuen began living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Yuen began working on The Shanghai Legacy, a historical fiction novel that explores her Chinese and Russian roots. She is the founder and CEO of Asian Fusion, a website that discusses topics for different Asian countries such as travel, food, and culture. In 2015, she was the Keynote Speaker at the Women In Travel Summit in Boston. Yuen has been a longtime supporter of orphaned and abused children in Asia, working with various organizations, particularly those focused on rescuing children forced into prostitution. She is an industrial engineer and classical musician by education.

Overview Published by Tuttle Publishing, Indonesian Cooking has 81 recipes covering food from East Java, West Java, Bali and other regions of the country. The book provides instructions for making terong balado sauce, oxtail soup, coconut noodle chicken laksa, garlic rice stew, nasi goreng, gado-gado, satay, and chicken and potato croquettes. (Bulleted list|For terong balado sauce, gado-gado, and satay |For chicken and potato croquettes Manote Tripathi praised the book in The Nation, writing, "The dishes in the book range from the familiar to the exotic.) Yuen offers easy-to-follow recipes to introduce each of these dishes that celebrate the use of organic products, fresh herbs and spices. The dishes laid out in this book reflect the breadth and depth of Indonesia’s vast culinary culture."

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