奥巴马：希望故地重游 品尝印尼美食

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.

曾在雅加达度过一段童年时光的美国当选总统当选巴拉克．奥巴马日前告诉印尼总统，他很想故地重游，再次品尝印尼的美食。

印尼总统苏西洛（向媒体）透露了此前他与奥巴马六分钟电话交谈的部分内容。

《可兰日报》援引苏西洛的话说：“他在电话中用流利的印尼语问候我 ‘近来可好，总统先生？’（'apa kabar, Bapak Presiden）”。

苏西洛总统刚参加完在南美举行的APEC领导人峰会回国，他在峰会期间访问了美国。

苏西洛说：“我邀请他在明年的新加坡峰会期间访问雅加达，他表示访问印尼十分重要。”

奥巴马说，除了进一步巩固两国的关系外，访问印尼还能让他有机会再次品尝当地的美食，比如肉丸汤、炒饭和红毛丹果等。

炒饭是印尼的一种著名的美食，红毛丹是一种味道甘甜、肉质透明的亚热带水果。

父母离婚后，奥巴马随母亲前往继父洛罗．苏托洛的故乡印度尼西亚，并在此生活了四年。奥巴马的母亲是美国人，父亲是肯尼亚人。

印尼人密切关注奥巴马的政治前途，当地媒体曾大幅报道了他曾经就读的小学和他住过的房子，并表达了这个世界第四人口大国对他的期望。

奥巴马将于明年1月就任美国第44任总统。