Overseas Minangkabau leave their hometown to start a career in other Indonesian cities as well as neighboring countries, and Padang restaurants, Minangkabau eating establishments that are ubiquitous in Indonesian cities, spring up.
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# Rendang johor: chicken and beef rendang with chicken/ beef organs speciality of Batu Pahat, Muar
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# Rendang Dinding: cattle lung / beef rendang, speciality of Perak
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# Rendang Utara: chicken and beef rendang, speciality of Kedah
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Andalas University historian, Prof. Gusti Asnan suggests that rendang began to spread across the region when Minangkabau merchants and migrant workers began to trade and migrate to Malacca in the 16th century.