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🍽️ Must Try (Local) Foods and Drinks in Bali
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items Heading to Bali soon? Here are some must try local dishes in Bali that you won't forget. You can find these type of menus anywhere in Bali. The spiciness level can be often adjusted to foreign people's tolerance. Just remember this word when ordering...
Bali’s most iconic local dish, babi guling (also known as suckling pig) is one nose-to-tail delicacy that you have to try. It’s usually served with rice, pork sausage, urapan (a vegetable salad in coconut chilli dressing), huge cuts of spice-rubbed, ...
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Babi Guling
According to legend, betutu was a favorite dish of royalty. It’s not hard to understand why, as the preparation of the dish is quite sophisticated. Whole chickens or ducks are typically used as the main ingredient and are stuffed with a complex blend...
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Ayam Betutu
Sate Lilit is a unique version of the popular South-East Asian dish, satay or sate. Traditional satay features skewered chunks of meat. Sate lilit, however, involves wrapping minced meat around a bamboo or lemongrass stick. This Balinese dish typical...
Sate Lilit
Urab (or Urap) is a classic vegetable salad in Balinese cuisine, featuring a coconut-based dressing. To prepare the salad, combine a variety of steamed or raw vegetables, including green beans, cabbage, bean sprouts, spinach, and cassava leaves. Then...
Sayur Urab
In Bali, we have a word, ‘mebat’, which means something like ‘chopping’ but implies that the chopping is done with friends. What could be fun about chopping? you may ask. Well, ‘mebat’ is more than just chopping – it’s chopping and chatting… and ofte...
Pork or Chicken Lawar
Jukut ares is a traditional Balinese soup made with "ares", the tender core of the banana stem. It is a part of the banana plant that is often discarded in many cuisines but is highly valued in Balinese and other Southeast Asian cooking for its textu...
Jukut Ares (Banana Stem Soup)
Laklak is a traditional Balinese pancake, made from rice flour and recognizable by a distinctive green color, which usually comes from pandan leaves. The batter for laklak is poured into special half-sphere molds and cooked over a fire, resulting in ...
Laklak - Traditional Pancake
Rujak bulung is a unique and traditional Balinese salad made with seaweed ("bulung" in Balinese). This salad is a vibrant mix of fresh seaweed, usually from the species Gracilaria or Eucheuma, that is thinly sliced and served with a dressing made fro...
Rujak Bulung
Tum ayam is a traditional Balinese dish consisting of seasoned chicken wrapped and cooked in banana leaves. The preparation of tum ayam involves marinating minced or finely chopped chicken with a blend of aromatic Balinese spices and herbs such as le...
Tum Ayam
Sambal bongkot is a type of Indonesian sambal that features bongkot, the Indonesian term for torch ginger (lat. Etlingera elatior) flower buds, as one of its key ingredients. Torch ginger is known for its distinct aroma and slightly spicy, floral fla...
Sambal bongkot | Traditional Side Dish
Daluman is a traditional Indonesian beverage that is particularly popular on the island of Bali, made from the leaves of the cincau plant (lat. Cyclea barbata), which are used to create a natural green jelly. This jelly is then cut into small cubes a...
Daluman
Loloh cemcem is a traditional Balinese drink, made from a mixture of natural ingredients known for their health benefits. The primary components of loloh cemcem include leaves from the cemcem plant (a type of local shrub), jatropha leaves, betel leav...
Loloh Cemcem
Bubur Mengguh is a traditional Balinese rice porridge dish hailing from Tejakula village, Buleleng (North Bali). Made with rice porridge, peanuts, chili peppers, shredded chicken, and urab, it boasts a unique flavor. Simmer coconut oil, salt, and bay...
Bubur Mengguh
Despite its small serving size, this Balinese dish plays a significant role in the daily diet of locals. Nasi Jinggo comprises rice, vegetables, a side dish, and condiments. What makes it unique is all wrapped together in a banana leaf. The meal is t...
Nasi Jinggo
Balinese Nasi Campur, which literally translates to “mixed rice,” is a popular Balinese dish among locals and visitors alike. People commonly consume it for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner.The dish is similar to a pick-and-mix selection, featuri...
Nasi Campur Ayam
Batu Bedil is originally from Bali and can be found in the traditional market in the morning in Bali. This dish has a nice sweetness from palm sugar and has nice chewiness texture.
Batun Bedil
Have you ever tried Klepon? These Indonesian style glutinous rice balls are bound to start a party in your mouth. Imagine these pandan coconut mochi-like balls are bursting with palm sugar liquid when you take a bite.
Klepon is a traditional Indonesian green rice cake filled with liquid palm sugar and coated in grated coconut. It is one of the most popular Indonesian traditional snacks and commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. Klepon is act...
The balls are green in color because the dough is flavored and colored with pandan paste. The finely shaved palm sugar (Javanese sugar/gula Melaka) is inserted into the dough and rolled into balls. Then, boil the balls until they float to the surface...
Klepon is a traditional Indonesian green rice cake filled with liquid palm sugar and coated in grated coconut. It is one of the most popular Indonesian traditional snacks and commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. Klepon is act...
The balls are green in color because the dough is flavored and colored with pandan paste. The finely shaved palm sugar (Javanese sugar/gula Melaka) is inserted into the dough and rolled into balls. Then, boil the balls until they float to the surface...
Klepon