rijsttafel in English

noun
1
a meal of Southeast Asian food consisting of a selection of spiced rice dishes.
Others haltingly recalled dishes like rijsttafel , a mélange of recipes pilfered from colonial Indonesia, and uitsmijter, which is essentially eggs and ham smothered in cheese.

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1. Of the Dutch-Indonesian fusion dishes the best known is the rijsttafel ("Rice table"), which is an elaborate meal consisting of many (up to several dozens) small dishes (hence filling "an entire table").