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From: Tracing the origins of rendang and its development

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Screenshot of rendang at 1st rank of 2017 CNN Travel poll “World’s 50 Best Foods” [1]. This poll is not merely considered by many Indonesians as proof of rendang as the most delicious food. However, this is more often used by the government and various culinary communities to claim that rendang belongs to Indonesia (not Malaysia). Many do not realize that the context of this claim makes rendang no longer the most delicious food. Rendang has shifted its meaning to being loaded with political content

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