How to pronounce Rawon

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈrawɔn/. In plain English letters that is RAH-won, 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 Rawon?

Rawon is a soup or stew of Indonesia. Where it comes from: East Java. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are beef. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Rawon comes from

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

• Rujak cingur · Main dish · East Java (Surabaya)

  Rujak cingur is a traditional dish of East Java, above all of the Arek cultural area around Surabaya.

• 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.

Food of Indonesia

Dishes like Rawon in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Rawon:

• Bulalo · Soup & stew · Batangas, Philippines

  Bulalo is a beef soup native to the Southern Luzon region, particularly the provinces of Batangas and Cavite.

• Motsunabe もつ鍋 · Soup & stew · Fukuoka, Japan

  Motsunabe is a hot pot of beef or pork offal, mainly small intestine, that is best known in Fukuoka.

• Seolleongtang 설렁탕 · Soup & stew · Seoul, South Korea

  Seolleongtang is ox bone soup: leg bones, brisket and other cuts of beef simmered over a low flame for many hours, sometimes a whole day, until the broth turns milky white and cloudy.

• Nauryz kozhe наурыз көже · Soup & stew · Kazakhstan

  Nauryz kozhe is the dish with which Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz as nooruz kozho, start the new year at Nauryz, the spring festival of Nowruz, for good luck.