Rahel Stephanie’s supper club, Spoons, started as a “very casual venture”. It was, the 28-year-old freely admits, “an excuse to get all my friends in one place and serve them Indonesian food.” But, as the heat around this plant-based event has grown (The Face magazine called it London’s “most exciting supper club”), so too has Rahel’s desire to correct misconceptions about her native cuisine.
For example, sate (as Indonesians spell it, not satay) does not refer to a peanut sauce. Instead, it is a category of “over 200 skewered dishes. Admittedly, the most popular is sate