After getting where to stay in Kuta or other places in Bali, now it’s time to find out what Balinese Cuisine has to offer. Lawar is one of the traditional and most popular cuisine here.

Lawar is Babi Guling’s sidekick (Babi Guling means Pig Suckling) and is usually served during traditional Balinese ceremonies. The main ingredients are turtle meat (now it’s forbidden since Turtle is nearly in extinction), chicken, beef combined with coconut and jack fruit, yet the most complex ingredients are spices.

The main ingredients is chopped into small pieces and then cooked with the spices.

Sometimes, they add blood too, thus resulting the red color that Lawar usually is. So finding out the color is the way to know if it has blood or not to put. But do not get worried, most that you find in the restaurants and warung (stalls) that sell Lawar is bloodless.

Not many Balinese people can be a good Patus (Lawar Maker). In some groups called Banjar, they usually have one or two patus.

The best moment to find people making this popular dish is when there is a ceremony. They will make Lawar because they use it in ceremony.