English▸ noun [mass noun] (in Indonesian cuisine) a salad of raw and cooked vegetables in a spicy peanut sauce, often served with fried tofu and hard-boiled eggs:
there's an attractive display of salads, and daily savouries like gado gado and kidney bean and cheese bake.
– ORIGIN from Javanese gadho-gadho, probably from nggadho ‘eat without rice’.