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Next is Tum for Balinese dishes.
Tum is made of various spices and encased with banana leaf then steamed for two hours. Tum is served to accompany nasi putih (steamed rice), we have to peel  the banana leaf first before we can enjoy the spicy Tum.
This is also a must to taste Balinese cuisine along with [...]

Kangkung is the Indonesian word for swamp cabbage, a very common vegetable consumed by locals. Swamp cabbages are hand -picked and sliced to small pieces, then boiled.
The plecing kangkung is served with very spicy and hot sauce made of chili, shrimp paste, peaneuts and lime juice.  The fact that most girls like plecing kangkung.
It is [...]

Sate Lilit is made of seafood, mince to paste like state before being put back together around the Katik sate (satay stick) creating an interesting seafood taste. As most of Balinese food, sate lilit is also hot and spicy because its spices are made of birds-eye chillies. The sour taste comes from lime leaves and [...]

This dish can be Balinese soup. It’s called Jukut Ares.
It is made of young banana tree mixed with various meats such as pork meat. The young banana trunk is chopped and boiled in spicy water resulting in a soup-like culinary experience.
This is also very favorit and loved in Bali. So while tasting Balinese dishes, do [...]

Now you might be wondering if suckling pig has its inside stuffed with spices and vegetables, where do the insides go? Do they throw it away? Of course not. They make urutan out of it.
Urutan is sausage ala Bali made of chopped pork encased within pig’s intestines. Coconut fiber is used to fasten the ends [...]

If you’ve been to Bali and have tried some local dishes. This must be you may have heard or even you tried.
Babi Guling or Pig Suckling is the most iconic and popular Balinese dishes. Babi Guling is made of a whole young pig stuffed with various spices and roll-roasted for 3-4 hours on a top [...]

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 [...]