She joined him recently on a visit to my kitchen, where they prepared a rijsttafel.

At least 4 of the 11 dishes on the rijsttafel menu were Chinese.

When planning a rijsttafel, study the recipes carefully in advance.

If you simply cannot make up your mind, try the rijsttafel - a selection of several dishes served with rice.

The Oasis' rijsttafel is served by up to 15 waitresses.

Sitting down to dine, we asked the Rengglis which beverage goes best with a rijsttafel.

In fact, the notion of rijsttafel is probably irrelevant to them; spaghetti carbonara will do just fine.

Get ravenous before trying a multicourse rijsttafel (literally 'rice table').

Although the dishes served are undoubtly Indonesian, the rijsttafel's origins were colonial.

They have no desire to travel to Jakarta to sample the world's most authentic rijsttafel .

Diners with more literal minds might expect traditional Indonesian fare like the rijsttafel (rice table).

Our final meal, a rijsttafel - an Indonesian feast - is served over the water in a candlelit hut.

It's also got a wicked rijsttafel comprising 17 dishes (four to seven at lunch); order individual plates if that's too much.

In the Netherlands, the sliced cake is traditionally served as dessert in rijsttafel.

The following is a brief, but not nearly complete, list of examples of foods that may be found on a rijsttafel:

An order of rijsttafel (rice table) allows diners to sample small portions of 23 specialties.

Despite its popularity in the Netherlands and abroad, the rijsttafel is rarely found in Indonesia.

While popular in the Netherlands, Rijsttafel is now rare in Indonesia itself.

The most expensive rijsttafel, the Matjan, comes with everything: chicken, fish, beef, vegetable, beans, potato and corn.

The same applies to the rijsttafel: a ridiculously overblown affair at many places, here it's a fine sampling of the country's flavours.

One eating establishment still serving the rijsttafel is Jakarta's Oasis Restaurant.

A Dutch specialty, left over from Holland's time as a colonial power in Indonesia, is the rijsttafel, or rice table.

Btw, Dutch people love Padang food so much, they renamed it in their language as Rijsttafel.

It was famous for its delicious Mrs. Homann's Rijsttafel.

Our Dutch friends prefer The Hague for rijsttafel and steered us instead toward traditional French.