Sate taichan

Sate taichan is an Indonesian chicken satay that departs from the usual form by being grilled plain, without peanut sauce or sweet soy sauce (kecap). The chicken is generally plain white in colour and seasoned only with salt, key lime juice and chilli, and it is served with sambal and a squeeze of key lime. Like other satays it is sold at night. Its origin is unconfirmed and the article gives two accounts, both set around Senayan in Jakarta. In the first, around 2012 a Japanese man who disliked the Madurese peanut sauce at a satay stall grilled his own skewered chicken seasoned with salt and lime, then asked the vendor for chilli sauce, and when asked what he was grilling he simply called it satay taichan without knowing why. In the second, a South Korean expatriate who ate at a stall often taught the owner another way of making satay, using sliced spices that were later mashed into the chilli sauce served with the plain meat.