Sate Bar Charley

Cheerful Charley, a former bank employee, is the mastermind behind a super duper mobile food spot on the multicultural Dapper Market: Saté Bar Charley. Don’t you love the perfume of barbecued pork, chicken, lamb and goat that comes from this little white truck? Inside Charley and his mother are grilling succulent pieces of deliciously seasoned meat. Upon request served with cubes of sticky rice, prawn crackers, sweet-​sour vegetables and a suicide hot paste of green chilies. It’s a true ‘family affair’: everything is home-​made and based on the recipes of Charley’s (grand)mother from Makassar, Indonesia. In the evening Charley cuts the meat for the next day, his mother seasons it and his sister puts the marinated pieces on skewers. Other family members help to grill the satay from time to time. Especially the saté babi reminds me of the pork satay my Dutch-​Indonesian mother used to make: medium small pieces of meat with a mildly spiced syrupy soy sauce. Have a portion on the wooden bench or taken some portions back home, together with some corn patties and pangsit, crispy dumplings with meat balls. Mark Charley’s words: ‘Don’t worry, be snacky.’