warung

plural warungs · alternative waroeng · alternative warong

1. IndonesiaMalaysiaA type of small family-owned business — often a casual, usually outdoor restaurant (in both countries) or convenience store (in Indonesia).

   Walking allows us to know precisely what kind and where to put convenient and comfort shelters like public toilets, benchs, kiosks, warungs and wakafs.

   2007, Mohamad Tajuddin Haji Mohamad Rasdi, Housing Crisis: Back to a Humanistic Agenda, Penerbit Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, →ISBN, page 63

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   Daud Yusof who runs one of the four warungs in the kampung said his business has been affectred because of the flies and claimed his earnings from selling nasi berlauk has dropped by 40 percent.

   1995 June 9, “Fly menace hits village stalls and homes”, in New Straits Times, page 6

   And of Mozaic Restaurant, an absolutely trumped-up Wine Spectator/Grandes Tables du Monde affair where tabs can run up to $100 or more that served food far less interesting and tasty than the $1.50 plates of nasi campur at the local restaurants called warungs.

   2009 March 22, John Bowe, “How Green Is My Bali”, in New York Times