Waroeng SS Spesial Sambal (or simply Waroeng SS) is big in Indonesia. The casual dining chain – which has around 100 branches and employs 4000 people – works to a very simple brief: make hot sambals.

Things are about to get spicy. You’ll find 20 types of sambal – some substantial enough to be meals in themselves – at the brand’s first Australian outpost on Lygon Street, Carlton. Waroeng SS Spesial ...

Who thinks condiments are the best part of a meal? Or, to put it another way, who believes meals are really just an excuse to have sauces, relishes and sambals? As a person with six types of chilli ...

Australia’s first Waroeng SS Spesial Sambal restaurant celebrates the Indonesian obsession with the condiment.