Toko Si-Pentje

Grocery · Den Haag, Netherlands

About Toko Si-Pentje

Toko is the Indonesian word for shop, and in the Netherlands it has come to describe a specific kind of small grocery and takeaway counter selling Indonesian and other Southeast Asian food products, a format with roots going back to the country's colonial-era trade with the Dutch East Indies. Toko Si-Pentje, on Merkusstraat in Den Haag's Bezuidenhout area, is one of the longer-established examples of this format still operating in the city, and it has been named the best Indonesian toko in the Netherlands by reviewers on Tripadvisor, a distinction that reflects both its grocery selection and its prepared-food counter. The shop stocks a range of dry goods, spices, sauces, and frozen items used in Indonesian cooking, alongside a rotating selection of ready-to-eat dishes prepared in-house, including nasi bungkus, rice wrapped and packaged for takeaway in the traditional style. Customers can order for pickup or delivery through the shop's own website as well as through several Dutch food-delivery aggregators that list it. Toko Si-Pentje keeps a six-day schedule: closed on Mondays, open Tuesday from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Wednesday through Saturday from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, and Sunday from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, a pattern that gives the shop a shorter Tuesday and Sunday window than the rest of the week. The shop has built a loyal customer base over years of operation in the same Bezuidenhout location, drawing both Indonesian Dutch residents with family recipes they no longer have time to cook themselves and newer arrivals looking for ingredients that are difficult to find in a typical Dutch supermarket. Reviewers frequently mention the shop's staff by name in online reviews, a sign of the kind of repeat, personal custom that a neighborhood toko depends on more than a larger supermarket chain would. This listing fills a gap in the directory's Netherlands coverage, which until now included Indonesian restaurants and a school in the Den Haag area but no dedicated grocery or toko-format shop, despite the country's long history of Indonesian migration and its concentration of Indo-Dutch communities in and around Den Haag specifically.

Address

Merkusstraat 196, 2593 TR Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands

Opening hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday Saturday
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Sunday
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Category

Indonesian Grocery in Netherlands

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