pete...@gmail.com wrote:

On Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-8, William Hyde wrote:

On Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 9:54:56 AM UTC-5, James Nicoll
wrote: > Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? by Robert Sheckley

It took me twenty five years after reading this to finally dine
on rijstaffel.

Now a brief search turns up web pages like "Top Ten Rijstaffel's
in Toronto".
Truly, we were in the dark ages.

Really? I don't think there are that many in the entire US,

I'd love to be proven wrong.

Many if not most Indonesian restaurants feature the dish.


Brian

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"Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> writes:

On 11/12/2023 12.23, Quadibloc wrote:

On Monday, December 11, 2023 at 1:06:42 AM UTC-7, Default User wrote:

Many if not most Indonesian restaurants feature the dish.

That's just it. With a name like "rijsttafel", before the age of
the World Wide Web, where one can just look stuff up so
easily...

Dunno. Nobody who'd ever read any of the Nicholas van Rijn stories
would do that.

one would search in vain in *Dutch* restaurants for the dish
instead.

Of course, before the WWW, I'm not sure how one
would look up Dutch restaurants, either.

Has it been that long? Libraries did, in that era, have
travel guides for most of the non-communist globe.

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"pete...@gmail.com" <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, December 11, 2023 at 1:34:47=E2=80=AFPM UTC-8, William Hyde wrot= >e:

On Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 10:43:03=E2=80=AFPM UTC-5, pete...@gmail.= >com wrote:=20

On Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 3:16:52=E2=80=AFPM UTC-8, William Hyde = >wrote:=20

On Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 9:54:56=E2=80=AFAM UTC-5, James Nicol= >l wrote:=20

Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? by Robert Sheckley=20
=20
A small abundance of Sheckley stories from a very specific moment i= >n=20
Robert Sheckley's career.=20
=20
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/shelter=20

It took me twenty five years after reading this to finally dine=20
on rijstaffel.=20
=20
Now a brief search turns up web pages like "Top Ten Rijstaffel's in T= >oronto".=20
=20
Truly, we were in the dark ages.=20

Really? I don't think there are that many in the entire US,=20
=20
I'd love to be proven wrong.

I think I had a choice of two in San Francisco a generation ago. The one = >I chose=20
was as good as the ones I ate at in the Hague.=20

I'm looking, but I still don't see what I think of as a 'rijstaffel'. The W= >ikipedia definition,
which matches my memory of what I have had in Amsterdam, is:

"is an Indonesian elaborate meal adapted by the Dutch following the hidang = >presentation=20
of nasi padang from the Padang region of West Sumatra.[1] It consists of ma= >ny (forty is=20
not an unusual number) side dishes served in small portions, accompanied by=
rice=20
prepared in several different ways."

Sounds a lot like Dim Sum.

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pete...@gmail.com <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 3:16:52=E2=80=AFPM UTC-8, William Hyde wrote: >> It took me twenty five years after reading this to finally dine

on rijstaffel.

Now a brief search turns up web pages like "Top Ten Rijstaffel's in Torono". >>
Truly, we were in the dark ages.

Really? I don't think there are that many in the entire US,

I'd love to be proven wrong.

This is because here in the US, we still ARE in the dark ages. And
Sanur Restaurant in NYC is closed down too.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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