奧巴馬：希望故地重遊 品嚐印尼美食

US president-elect Barack Obama, who spent part of his childhood in Jakarta, told Indonesia's leader he would like to visit the Southeast Asian nation again and recalled a taste for local food.

Obama's remarks were recounted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after a six-minute phone call between the two leaders.

"He greeted me with 'apa kabar, Bapak Presiden' (How are you Mr. President) in fluent Indonesian," Yudhoyono was quoted as saying by the Koran Tempo daily.

Yudhoyono has just returned from a trip to the United States and South America, where he attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC).

"When I invited him to come to Jakarta during the APEC meeting in Singapore next year, he said coming to Indonesia is very important," Yudhoyono said.

The Indonesian president said that Obama also said that besides forging greater cooperation between the two nations, a visit would give him a chance to try local food again including meatball soup, nasi goreng and rambutan, the paper reported.

Nasi goreng is a fried rice dish popular in Indonesia, while rambutans are a tropical fruit with a sweet translucent flesh.

Obama, who will be sworn in as the 44th U.S. president in January spent four years in Indonesia after his American mother married Indonesian Lolo Soetoro following the end of her marriage to Obama's Kenyan father.

Indonesians have followed Obama's political fortunes closely and the local media has been full of stories on his old school, the house he lived in, and the hopes of people in the world's fourth-most populous nation.

曾在雅加達度過一段童年時光的美國當選總統當選巴拉克•奧巴馬日前告訴印尼總統，他很想故地重遊，再次品嚐印尼的美食。

印尼總統蘇西洛（向媒體）透露了此前他與奧巴馬六分鐘電話交談的部分內容。

《可蘭日報》援引蘇西洛的話說：“他在電話中用流利的印尼語問候我 ‘近來可好，總統先生？’（'apa kabar, Bapak Presiden）”。

蘇西洛總統剛參加完在南美舉行的APEC領導人峯會回國，他在峯會期間訪問了美國。

蘇西洛說：“我邀請他在明年的新加坡峯會期間訪問雅加達，他表示訪問印尼十分重要。”

奧巴馬說，除了進一步鞏固兩國的關係外，訪問印尼還能讓他有機會再次品嚐當地的美食，比如肉丸湯、炒飯和紅毛丹果等。

炒飯是印尼的一種著名的美食，紅毛丹是一種味道甘甜、肉質透明的亞熱帶水果。

父母離婚後，奧巴馬隨母親前往繼父洛羅•蘇託洛的故鄉印度尼西亞，並在此生活了四年。奧巴馬的母親是美國人，父親是肯尼亞人。

印尼人密切關注奧巴馬的政治前途，當地媒體曾大幅報道了他曾經就讀的小學和他住過的房子，並表達了這個世界第四人口大國對他的期望。

奧巴馬將於明年1月就任美國第44任總統。