Technically Westerner, but I grew up in Saudi Arabia. Condiments weren't used much there. Vinegary hot sauce, tahini dressing, and garlicky yogurt.
Indian cuisine has a huge variety of condiments. Many different oil based pickles, often quite spicy.
Mint and coconut chutneys are nice and cooling. Mango chutney is sweet. Tamarind chutney is great - sweet and sour. I'm sure there are many more I don't know about
Just jumping in here, as a Westerner. WTF is up with people's obsession with ketchup?!?! About the only thing it's good for is making cocktail sauce, putting it on a plain dawg, or making BBQ sauce. Fries, burgers, etc, GTFOH with that.
"Kecap Manis" or Sweet Soy Sauce
"Bumbu Kacang" a peanut sauce, usually we used it for savoury meals.
Two of them is the core of delicious meals
- gado-gado: Indonesian salad of slightly boiled, vegetables with peanut sauce
- sate ayam: marinated chicken skewers with peanut sauce and Kecap manis
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Indian cuisine has a huge variety of condiments. Many different oil based pickles, often quite spicy.
Or so I've been told
for dipping: soy sauce or black vinegar
fermented tofu, which we put in porridge
and then there’s the legendary laoganma
lol
Americans know how to fuck up a LOT of things, as I'm sure you know.
"Bumbu Kacang" a peanut sauce, usually we used it for savoury meals.
Two of them is the core of delicious meals
- gado-gado: Indonesian salad of slightly boiled, vegetables with peanut sauce
- sate ayam: marinated chicken skewers with peanut sauce and Kecap manis