In
Indonesianiga means
ribs, while the term penyet in
Javanese means "to squeeze", which refer to the serving method of squeezing the meat against
mortar filled with spicy
sambal using
pestle. This penyet method of serving dishes is also applied to numbers of other dishes, such as
empal penyet,
ayam penyet (
ayam goreng penyet) and
ayam bakar penyet.