A traditional Indonesian snack made from rice flour, coconut, and sugar, often grilled on bamboo skewers.
From Indonesian or Javanese caci, a word specific to Southeast Asian cuisine. It entered English through anthropological and culinary documentation of Indonesian food culture.
Caci represents one of the oldest street foods in Indonesia and shows how entire food cultures can be nearly invisible to English speakers until recently—thousands of years of culinary tradition captured in a single word.
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