09 Apr
Malaysia© Robyn Eckhardt (article) and David Hagerman (photographs) (http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/)
Robyn Eckhardt writes: And this is his warung. Welcome.Koh Ati ('koh'for 'Elder Brother') cooks a mean kepala ikan (fish head). He's been doing so, in a miniscule shack tucked between a sundries store and a canal a short walk from Jakarta's Old Town, for over thirty-eight years. We find his warung by chance as we trace wider and wider circles out from Fatahillah Square, hunting architectural remnants of Dutch and Chinese influence on the city's history.The sign, a plywood plank advertising three dishes in clear, no-nonsense lettering, speaks to us. So does the sight of Koh Ati laboring over a chunk of fish in his ...