The satay always rules - I usually go with my husband, brother and sister-in-law, but this time had to take a massive "takeout" order home. The lovely sister Tuti and crew were more than up to the challenge, though (!) And while I was waiting, I ate as much as I could of everything else that wasn't satay - rosoles, matabak, sombay, tahu isi, etc. - all the "finger foods" I never usually get to try. The family is so addicted that Tuti very kindly gave me her phone # last fall in case we wanted to phone in a pick-up order on one of the Fridays she grillss at the Mosque. Next time, I'm bringing home more rendangs and various gorengs and gado gado - wasn't able to carry all of it with the arm-stretching satay order (!) (The beef and lamb are my favorites).

Actually, I went to yesterday's - caught the 2013 board just in time on Friday. Thanks, though!

FABULOUS! Thought I missed "opening day" - I'll be there!!

Any word on 2013? It's April - I might have missed the first one of the season, but I hope not!

The Satay (Sate) Penang has a curry-based sauce - very mild, but if you don't like curry (most likely, the turmeric) then the sauce just won't fly for you. My hubby loathes turmeric, so I have to bypass a lot of curries that have it.

Tuti sells chicken, beef and what she says is lamb satay - I believe it is, since I've eaten enough goat to know that this isn't. She serves it with longtong, which she cheerfully calls "rice cube" while I was describing it to my 12 year-old niece as a "sticky rice cube", and explaining how it should be eaten. I took out six orders of satay, and my brother took out five, so we had a merry old time for quite a while at 10:00am - lots of chat, lots of laughing. I helped her stir the kecap manis/tomato/chili dressing and stack the longtong cubes while we waited.

Tuti, the lovely satay lady on the first stall on the right as you come in, told me that even though this was the last food bazaar until at least April next year, she is at the mosque 12-2 every Friday, even in the winter, selling satay. Naturally, my entire family was wildly excited about the possibility of weekly satay, so we intend to send the one person with the flexible work schedule on periodic satay runs, if true (!!)

They are all lovely, warm, gentle, kind people, and I love them as much as I love their food. The satay lady I always visit greets me effusively with, "good morning, sistah!" every time, and she and my husband (who usually eats 2 orders standing there and takes home another 3 or 4) are becoming best buddies. I have to study the gado gado lady a bit more - I've got her peanut sauce down, but I keep tasting something else, dressing-wise, in the gado gado - tamarind? Fish paste? Vinegar and brown sugar? All of these?

Thank you, round2, for boldly going where no one else went before and finding out!

Thanks. Completely understandable if they don't have another bazaar in September, but we'd all just like to know - the food is SOOOOOOO good!

I've been trying the Mosque all week. They have a new recorded message saying to leave your name and phone number, but they haven't got back to me. I still can't get a live person to ask about the next food bazaar. Can anyone here with a connection to the Mosque ask their moms or dads or sistahs or aunties who might be cooking if thre will be another bazaar in September and, if so, when? I figure a lot of those cooks might be back from vacation in Indonesia by now (!)

Thanks for the info, gecko and misshi. I wasn't stressed abbout trying to find out - I just couldn't find anything out to report back. Looking forward to the next one they may or may not have in September (!)

I've tried for 4 days straight now, and I keep getting the answering machine with the same message on it about morning prayers at 9 on 8/19. I tried leaving a VM, but I'm not sure if the Mosque's answering machine/VM is actually taking messages.

Thanks. I'll try to gert through to a live person and see if there's an August bazaar upcoming. Hopefully, now that Ramadan is over, they will squeeze one last one in before the summer is over.

I called the Mosque a few minutes ago, and got a recorded message - it is not very clear and most of it is in Indonesian, but they had some kind of event on Sunday, August 19th - prayers at 9a, followed by . . . . whatever. I don't know if this was the August food bazaar. Could someone who understands Indonesian please call the Mosque at 718-721-8881 and let us know? I can't get through to a live person. Many thanks!

July 15th's food bazaar was wonderful, as always - glad they managed to get one in this month, before Ramadan. Has anyone heard when the next one might be? Mid- to late August, perhaps?

Yep, just spoke to the Mosque a moment ago. June 17th, it is!

The next Indonesian Food Bazaar is this Sunday, July 17 - just spoke to the nice people at the Mosque.

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REVISED - The next one will be Sunday, July 18 - again, according to my new BFF Yussef, who works for the mosque.

The next one will be Sunday, July 18 - again, according to my new BFF Yussef, who works for the mosque.

The Indonesian Food Bazaar at Masjid was wonderful! The next one will be July 11, so I was told by one of the lovely ladies working the satay grills.

The Indonesian Food Bazaar at Masjid was wonderful! The next one will be July 11, so I was told by one of the lovely ladies working the satay grills.

According to the very lovely gentleman, Yussef, who organizes the food bazaars at Masjid, the next one will be Sunday, June 6th. (He mans the "drinks stand" at the bazaar, he told me - so maybe DaveCook or some other of my fellow Hounds have met him already).

I checked with Agata & Valentina at 79th/1st. They will have mangosteens in June. Meanwhile, Legal Seafood has a special drink using mangosteen puree as a base with Champagne. I had them create me a mangosteen Cosmo instead, which is why I'm now on the hunt for mangosteen!