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Rudjak

Indonesian inspired

Sweet. Spicy. Sour.
All at once.

Rudjak serves bold Indonesian flavours in bowls, plates and sharing feasts built for discovery.

Bowls
Made to order
Sambal
Six heat levels
Feasts
From four upwards
Overhead view of a colourful rudjak bowl with green mango, pineapple, star fruit, cucumber and bengkoang around a dish of dark palm sugar sambal

Rudjak Manis Bowl

Palm sugar sambal, toasted peanut

Four ways to eat with us

Interactive

Build your rudjak

Choose a base, three fruits or vegetables, your sambal heat and a topping. The flavour meter is an illustrative guide, not a recipe.

1. Pick a base
2. Choose three fruits or vegetables (3 of 3 selected)

Already at three? Adding another swaps out your earliest choice.

3. Sambal heat
Gentle warmth
4. Finish with a topping

How it works

Four decisions between walking in and eating. Nothing about it is complicated, which is rather the point.

  1. 01

    Choose your shape

    A single bowl for a fast lunch, a rice plate for something heartier, or a sharing feast when there are more of you.

  2. 02

    Set the heat

    Sambal is mixed to order across six levels, from no sambal at all to full sambal ground fresh that morning.

  3. 03

    Balance the plate

    Sweet palm sugar, sour tamarind and lime, crunchy fruit and vegetables. Every dish is built to hit all three at once.

  4. 04

    Eat and share

    Bowls are handed over ready to eat. Feasts arrive on banana leaf so the table serves itself.

Fresh red chillies, garlic and palm sugar being ground into sambal in a stone mortar and pestle

Sambal is ground, not blended

A mortar bruises chilli and garlic rather than shredding them, so the dressing carries texture as well as heat. It takes longer. It tastes like it took longer.

An Indonesian street food stall at dusk under warm string lights, with a vendor preparing plates of fresh cut fruit

Our story

Built around one mouthful

Rudjak began with an argument about balance. Most menus ask you to choose a direction: sweet or sharp, mild or fiery. Indonesian rujak refuses. Palm sugar, tamarind, chilli and salt land together, and the fruit underneath stays cold and crunchy through all of it.

We wanted that idea to survive the move into a contemporary kitchen, so we kept the method and changed the setting. Sambal is still ground in a mortar. Fruit is still cut on the day. What is new is the format: bowls you can carry back to a desk, plates that hold their own at dinner, feasts that turn a table into an event.

The result is food that asks a small amount of curiosity and pays it back immediately. You do not need to know the names of anything to enjoy it.

Example scenarios

Illustrative situations this concept is designed for. These are examples, not real customers.

The office lunch run

Twelve people, forty minutes, everyone wants something different. Bowls are built to order and labelled, so nobody has to negotiate over a shared tray.

The curious first timer

Someone who has never eaten rujak and is not sure how hot is too hot. They start at gentle warmth, taste it, and come back braver.

The event caterer's client

A launch evening that needs food people talk about. A banana leaf table gives the room something to gather around instead of a queue for a buffet.

Catering and pop ups

Book a table or bring us to you

Reserve a table for a sharing feast, or ask about a pop up. Office lunch runs work best as pre selected bowls; evening events tend to want a banana leaf table with sambals down the middle.

An overhead sharing feast of colourful Indonesian dishes on banana leaves, with sate skewers, gado gado, sambal bowls and fresh herbs
Tables
From 4 to 30 guests
Pop ups
Half or full day
Notice
Two weeks preferred

Reservation and catering enquiry

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About the name

Rudjak, with a d

The name is a brand spelling inspired by rujak, an Indonesian dish of fruit or vegetables tossed in a dressing that combines contrasting sweet, spicy and sour flavours.

The older Dutch influenced spelling with a d still turns up in Indonesian cookbooks and on old signage. We kept it because it does what the dish does: familiar at a glance, a little unexpected once you look closer.

Sweet

Palm sugar, ripe mango, guava

Spicy

Fresh chilli ground to order

Sour

Tamarind, lime, green fruit

Questions, answered

The things people ask first about a menu built on contrast.

Get in touch

Questions about the menu, a pop up, or the brand itself? Send a note and we will point you in the right direction.

Real enquiries

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