"She asks for sambal and soy sauce."

Translation: Dia minta sambal dan kecap.

[Efi123154]

Soy sauce is kecap asim. If you only say kecap, it is understood for kecap manis

[HaloDJ1026]

asin*

[Bill678285]

Wrong spelling, but correct about the product. Indonesians eat kecap manis 20:1 (maybe more) over kecap asin. If you ask for kecap, and do not specify kecap asin, you are, for sure, gonna' get "kecap manis".

[CarmanChew]

what is the difference between kecap manis and kecap asin?

[kholden83]

Kecap asin ("salty soy sauce") is the soy sauce you'd be familiar with from Chinese or Japanese food. Kecap manis ("sweet soy sauce") is a regional variant, it's pretty easy to find in Australian grocery stores, I have a bottle in my fridge. It's not just a little sweetened, though, it's like soy-flavoured syrup; first ingredient sugar. Despite the unsweetened one being called salty, kecap manis also has plenty of salt according to both the ingredients list and the nutrition information, it's just a less obvious flavour under all the sugar

[Ankojem]

is it posible to use "meminta" instead of"minta"

[duolingotfek]

Yes, it is. "Minta" is used in informal situation and more widely used

[Kst868213]

I wrote kecap asin but got an error....

[Aiden212598]

Report it then as an alternative. Commenting doesn't do anything like as useful.

[Bill678285]

Where i live (Bali) there is no KECAP..... Only kecap manis or kecap asin. You absolutely must ask for sweet or salty, otherwise you receive a blank stare.

[GiSoraya]

The "e" in "Kecap" should be pronounced like "é" in French.

[Brian401692]

In Malaysia it is spelled "kicap" so I always get a 'spelling error' :)

[_adrianpop_]

Can untuk be used with (me)minta? Is Dia meminta untuk samabal dan kecap. a gramatically correct sentence?

[setijoso]

Whats the difference between minta and nanya?

[AntoniMysl]

tanya means rather to enquire, ask a question

[Neil339550]

What is tomato sauce called?

[DanielGroot]

Saus tomat

[ClassiDuo]

"kecap" looks a lot like English "ketchup": does "kecap" mean sauces in general, and require modification to specify the type of sauce? And what is the Indonesian word for English "ketchup"?

[kholden83]

Unlike a lot of familiar-looking words in Indonesian, ketchup was borrowed into a European language, rather than from it

[Karthik03121811]

Kecap is specific to soy souce

They may use sos tomat to indicate ketchup

[kana458892]

Soy sauceはしょうゆなのでkecap asinで不正解なら、 たトマトソースケチャップと区別できないのでkecapだと不正解では?

[araj04_plyglt]

Can untuk be used here?

[JustinWall855206]

I tried and was marked wrong.