"A native of Sumatra’s Lake Toba region, chef-owner Birong Hutabarat serves traditional Indonesian cuisine at Blue Toba, which is stylishly and colorfully decorated with shadow puppets, textiles, and masks from all over the archipelago. “Guy Fieri was blown away on his visit — he never ate Indonesian food before,” says his wife and co-owner, Leslie Caplan, of the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives host. The Food Network show shares recipes for the restaurant's intensely flavored beef rendang, made with 19 spices and marinated for five hours and opor, a candlenut curry, online." - Sharon McDonnell
