Docu: More than Babi Pangang (with discussion director)

In More Than Babi Pangang, Chinese-Dutch documentary maker Julie Ng explores the success and imminent demise of the Chinese-Indonesian restaurant, using Golden House, her father's restaurant in Rozenburg.

What begins as a search for the origins of the dish babi pangang, grows into a personal and emotional exploration of her cultural and culinary identity as a Chinese Dutchman. Why do Chinese-Indian restaurants serve dishes that Chinese people themselves do not eat at home? What does that say about adaptation, perception and the way cultures relate to each other? And why is it that when many Dutch people think of 'the Chinese', they mainly think of babi pangang - a dish that grew out of the cross-pollination of three cultures: Chinese, Indian and Dutch.

Directed by Julie Ng

Production country: the Netherlands
Dutch and Cantonese spoken, Dutch subtitles
documentary, 71 min, 2026
all ages