Previously I posted a post regarding babi panggang and how it was popular in Belgium....well i made a mistake....it was not Belgium, it was The Netherlands...sorry for the misunderstandings.
I told this story to my brother and dad and quite surprisingly they were able to come up with a theory on how it came to be...
enter : The Babi Panggang Theory.
My dad's theory was during the fight for Indonesian independence from the dutch, there were the Nationalists that were fighting for independents and there were also Indonesian people that favor dutch rule.
the story is, when the Nationalist finally got there independence, these dutch loyalist were in a tight situation. If they stay in Indonesia they will face the wrath of the nationalists for "betraying" the country. So the somehow persuaded the dutch to bring them back to Holland. And so they did...
So through the years, the Indonesians integrated with the locals and their culture and cuisine has became popular around western Europe and Scandinavia. I think the Indonesians who came to Holland were Indonesian Chinese, thats why their food was mistaken as Chinese food. This eventually caused the Dutch who went to China searching for Babi Pangang to be puzzled not to find it anywhere in China. Its not that there were none, but its not called Babi Panggang in China.
Cheers
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