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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

original autentic balinese food and cake

Nasi Bubuh :
Sold commonly in villages for breakfast. Served on a banana leaf (tekor), spiced, scattered with sayur urap (vegetables mixed with shredded coconut) and fried peanuts. The price of one portion is between 1500 and 2000 Rupiah.
Jaja Bali :
A variety of traditional snacks, made primarily from rice, sticky rice, cassava, and yam or sweet potato. Included here are Laklak, Godoh, Bubuh Injin, Lempog, Batun Bedil, Pisang Rai, Bendu, Klepon, Kukus Ketan, Wajik and Lapis, among others. In general we are willing to up to 1000 Rupiah to indulge in this treats. Beyond that, it's a bit overpriced.
Tipat Cantok :
Compressed rice morsels, made in a specially woven diamond - shaped coconut leaf basket, known as tipat (ketupat in Indonesian) served with uleg spices of fried tofu and it goes well with krupuk (crackers). One portion should cost you about 1500 to 3000 Rupiah.
Rujak :
Rujak is made from sliced fruits, including sour mango, young papaya, bangkuang (a juicy kind of tuber) cucumber, pineapple and others. It's often sold with a choice of two spiced sauces : those with local red sugar, or those with fist sauce. One portion cost between 1000 and 2500 Rupiah.
Bulung :
Traditional Balinese salad, generally most popular along the Southern coastal regions. A variety of boiled seaweeds served with fish sauce dressing. Cost 1000 to 2000 Rupiah.
Be Guling :
A whole pig roasted over an open fire by rotating it on a spit. The stomach is stuffed with various spices. This is often viewed as the "masterpiece" of traditional Balinese cuisine.
Lawar :
Minced meat or vegetables mixed with ground spices. In general it is made from pork, or the meat of a type of short-legged duck (kuwir), jackfruit (nangka), young papaya, long beans (kacang panjang) the leaves of star fruit (daun belimbing) coconut, and sometimes mixed with animal blood.
Tum :
Minced meat mixed with minced pigskin, often mixed with blood. Small portions are wrapped individually in banana leaves and steamed.
Pesan or Pepes :
Spiced fish or meat wrapped in elongated banana leaf package and then steamed and / or grilled.
Sate :
The type of sate, which traditional in Bali is called sate lilit. It is made from minced meat mixed with grated coconut, spices and then molded onto the skewers made from bamboo or coconut wood, grilled over coals.
Jukut Ares :
A soupy vegetable dish made from the trunk of young banana trees. Until the early 1970s, you could still find traveling vendors selling jukut ares served on a banana leaf with sate kakul (snail sate).

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