 At that time, during colonial era, there were significant influx of Arabs and Muslim Indians migrated into Indonesian archipelago.The Arabs settlers introduced and promoted goat, lamb and mutton as their preferred meat, thus several dishes influenced by Arab and Muslim Indian culinary traditions were introduced to Java.Among others are "sate kambing", which was believed to be the local adaptation of Indian-Muslim kebabs and "gulai", which was a local adaptation of curry-based soup probably influenced by Indian cuisine.