Swikee

Swikee, also spelled swike, is a frog-leg dish of the Chinese Indonesian kitchen. The legs of green frogs are cooked with garlic, ginger, fermented soy paste known as tauco, salt and pepper, and the dish can be served as a soup or as deep fried or stir fried frog legs. Fried garlic and chopped celery may be added when it is served, and it is usually eaten with plain steamed white rice. The name comes from the Hokkien words for water and chicken, probably a euphemism for frog. The dish began as a Chinese one and is now popular across Indonesia, where it is sometimes described as a traditional food of Purwodadi in Central Java and of Jatiwangi in West Java, and restaurants in many Indonesian cities trade under the names Swikee Purwodadi or Swikee Jatiwangi. Because the mainstream Islamic schools of law forbid eating frog, the dish has caused some local controversy.