When Feny,* the owner of Burnside Indonesian restaurant Wajan, was growing up in Jakarta, snacks were a huge part of her diet. She’d grab a quick bite from the street food vendors and markets on her way to or from school, whether that was a parcel of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves, a crunchy fried fritter, or a springy pandan cake. Even today, Feny spends her day snacking — that’s why she opened her Alberta Indonesian restaurant Pasar as something like a snack bar, serving a wide selection of single-bite treats she’d eat at the restaurant’s namesake markets she visited as a child.
“I love to snack;
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