How to pronounce Amplang

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈamplaŋ/. In plain English letters that is AHM-plahng, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Amplang?

Amplang is a snack of Indonesia. Where it comes from: East Kalimantan (Samarinda). People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are fish. It tastes savory.

Where Amplang comes from

Amplang is one of 46 signature dishes of Indonesia on this map.

• Rendang · Main dish · West Sumatra

  Rendang belongs to the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra.

• Nasi goreng · Rice dish · Java

  Nasi goreng is fried rice, and fried rice came to the region with Chinese settlers.

• Gado-gado · Main dish · Jakarta

  Gado-gado is a Jakarta salad of boiled and raw vegetables, potato, hard-boiled egg, fried tofu and tempeh, and slices of rice cake, all dressed with a thick sauce of ground peanuts, palm sugar, chilli and lime.

• Mie Aceh mi Aceh · Noodles & pasta · Aceh

  Mie Aceh, Aceh noodles, is the curried, spicy noodle dish of Aceh at the northern tip of Sumatra.

• Kuah pliek u · Soup & stew · Aceh

  Kuah pliek u is a curry-like stew from Aceh, built on a seasoning found nowhere else in Indonesian cooking.

• Timphan · Dessert · Aceh

  Timphan, also called jeumphan, is a steamed banana dumpling and a traditional kue, or sweet snack, of Aceh.

Food of Indonesia

Dishes like Amplang in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Amplang:

• Otak-otak · Snack · Johor (Muar), Malaysia

  Otak-otak, whose name means "brains" in Malay, is a fish cake of ground fish mixed with spices and wrapped in leaf parcels, then steamed or grilled and eaten as a snack or with rice.

• Prahok ប្រហុក · Snack · Cambodia

  Prahok is a salted, fermented fish paste and one of the foundations of Cambodian cooking.

• Satsuma-age さつま揚げ · Snack · Kagoshima, Japan

  Satsuma-age is a fried fish cake that originated in Kagoshima, the old Satsuma domain, where locals call it tsukeage.

• Gwamegi 과메기 · Snack · North Gyeongsang, South Korea

  Gwamegi is half-dried Pacific herring or saury made in winter on the east coast of North Gyeongsang, around Pohang, Uljin and Yeongdeok.