Indonesian and Malaysian cuisines have been strongly influenced by both China and India to the point where the dishes most associated with those regions are abo

Indonesian and Malaysian cuisines have been strongly influenced by both China and India to the point where the dishes most associated with those regions are about as far from indigenous as you can get. I've eaten native dishes on the island of Borneo--it's comparatively bland (which isn't to say it wasn't tasty), just like the vast majority of cuisines everywhere in the world. Africa is the one continent I haven't traveled to, but while no doubt there are many good indigenous dishes, much noteworthy sub-Saharan African cuisine is actually heavily influenced by India (both directly and indirectly, through Arabia and Persia), with which it has had heavy contact for millennia, even before Britain brought over hundreds of thousands of Indian workers in the 19th century.