gado-gado

English

Noun

gado-gado (uncountable)

  1. An Indonesian vegetable salad served with a peanut sauce dressing.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Betawi gado-gado, reduplication of gado, from Javanese gado.

Noun

gado-gado (plural gado-gado)

  1. a traditional dish in Indonesian cuisine (originally Betawi cuisine), a vegetable salad served with a peanut sauce dressing
  2. (colloquial, figurative) a miscellany of mixed things: hodgepodge; mishmash

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