Warung Indonesia Delisha Cafe

Restaurant · Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

About Warung Indonesia Delisha Cafe

Gyeongju is usually described abroad as Korea's museum without walls, a city of royal tombs and temples left over from the Silla kingdom, but its economy today also rests on the industrial parks and factories of North Gyeongsang province, which employ a sizeable population of Indonesian migrant workers. Warung Indonesia Delisha Cafe serves that community from a location on Dongseong ro in the city, with a second branch about a hundred kilometres away in the industrial city of Gumi, another centre of Indonesian factory employment in the province.

The cafe is run by an Indonesian woman identified in Indonesian press coverage by her first name, Ani, who built the business to sell the food she grew up with to workers far from home. Its most requested dish is nasi goreng, Indonesia's fried rice, and the wider menu runs to nasi padang, the rice and side dish spread associated with West Sumatra, along with ayam bakar and bebek bakar, grilled chicken and duck basted in sweet soy based marinades, iga bakar grilled short ribs, and rendang, the slow cooked beef dish associated with Minangkabau cooking across Sumatra.

Ani has credited Bank Negara Indonesia's Seoul branch with helping the business grow, citing training and coaching support alongside ordinary banking services, and in particular the bank's Xpora programme, a network set up to help Indonesian businesses abroad source ingredients and products from home rather than relying on whatever substitutes are available locally. That kind of support matters for a kitchen built around specific regional Indonesian flavours in a part of South Korea with little existing supply chain for them. No phone number or set opening hours for either branch could be confirmed from available sources, so anyone planning a visit should expect to confirm details locally before travelling to Dongseong ro or the Gumi branch.

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Indonesian Restaurant in South Korea

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