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- noun Common misspelling of
rijsttafel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice
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DH and I shared a Vegetarian Rice Table, or rijsttafel often misspelled rijstaffel, a Dutch word that literally translates to "rice table", and is an elaborate meal adapted by the Dutch from the Indonesian feast called nasi padang:
VANCOUVER WEEKEND: GRANVILLE ISLAND, EXOTIC VEG EATING Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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DH and I shared a Vegetarian Rice Table, or rijsttafel often misspelled rijstaffel, a Dutch word that literally translates to "rice table", and is an elaborate meal adapted by the Dutch from the Indonesian feast called nasi padang:
Archive 2009-09-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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Nothing beats a good Indonesian rijstaffel, especially when paired with plenty of cold Bier Bintang, an Indonesian beer made by Heineken.
Amsterdam, Part One: I’ll Have These 25 Dishes, Thanks - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But what if the limpidly tutor to be a despotic maravilla blunderer, atonicity vet, calabura thunderer prisonbreak, increasing demurrage, hectogram crazy, and all tightly rijstaffel amnesiac of a guy?
Rational Review 2009
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Make a point of trying Indonesian food at least once: rijstaffel is delicious, distinctive, and very very rare in the USA.
Ian Bicking: a blog 2008
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It’s amazing how this article manages to call its topic “rijsttafel”, “rijstaffel”, and “risttafel” in the span of a few sentences.
Amsterdam, Part One: I’ll Have These 25 Dishes, Thanks - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Just for the record, the best rijstaffel I’ve had was at Sari, located in the town of Heemstede, about 30 minutes or so by train from Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Part One: I’ll Have These 25 Dishes, Thanks - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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We’ve been looking at traveling abroad for some time now, and armed with your article, I can convince my partner to supplement her Franco-heavy culinary leanings with more examples of cuisine such as rijstaffel.
Amsterdam, Part One: I’ll Have These 25 Dishes, Thanks - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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