BALI - TRADITIONAL FOOD (3)

People said - Buleleng region (North Part of Bali) is a place where many traditional delicious food available. I went there yesterday and had a chance taste a traditional food called: SATE PLECING. It is a variety of satay (pork and or fish) with sweet or hot sauce.

The sweet sauce made of fermented bean paste, and the hot sauce made of red chillies. Some people like to combine both sauce sauce which give a nice sweet, salty and hot taste.













It is served with slices of cucumber + sambal.














For the soup you will have 2 options, vegetable soup (a clear soup) and SEMUR.
I won't explore further the vegetable soup, it is just a normal clear soup with carrot, diced potato, and green bean.
I like this SEMUR soup very much.
A very thick stock consisted of slices of pork and potatoes. Taste like tomato soup but it has a different smell due to spices they use to cook. There is cloves, nutmeg, pepper and salt all cooked in a perfect balance.
















The drink is also very unique, they named it ES BEER, es = ice; beer is beer.
But do not expect you will get a normal beer as the western world understanding.
This special beer is made of grated young coconut + coconut water + simple syrup and splash of
lemon. Normally it is served in a big bulky glass which can make your stomach really full if you finish it. In this Sate plecing stall it is served with a normal glass! :-D




















So............, next time if you have a chance wandering around Buleleng region, do not forget to find a SATE PLECING stall. The one that I had yesterday is located near Hardy's Supermarket at Jln. Ngurah Rai.

BALI - TRADITIONAL FOOD (2)

You might have known a famous traditional Balinese food restaurant located in Lukluk, a village not far from Denpasar.
The place is very famous for its dishes called "LAWAR LUKLUK".

Lawar is a kind of traditional balinese food, which made from shredded steamed pork or beef skin combined with shredded coconut, fried onion, slices chilly, shrimp paste, and other spices.

But lawar is not the only main dishes, it should be accompanied with "KUAH" a kind of spicy soup with several small cut of meat (either beef or pork - you can choose which one do you want, or mix). Besides that on the plate you will also find sweet jerked meat (again either beef or pork), fried skin crackers and fried innards.















Again, if having kinda Balinese traditional food, best........ if you have it at the place it sold. Otherwise, it tastes different. One more of this LAWAR LUKLUK speciality is their sambal (hot chilly sauce), which made of shrimp paste. It tastes really good, who can resist a plate of warm rice with shrimp paste sambal + lawar + kuah.........??

Interested to try? Drive along main road to Tabanan, it is located in Lukluk - Sempidi, on the right side just after a traffic light. It opens early in the morning around 07.00 - 07.30 Bali local time to about 15.00 - 15.30 only.

BALI - TRADITIONAL FOOD (1)

Lately, I was tickled to write about Balinese Traditional Food.

Balinese Traditional Food has its own character which able 'hypnotizing' their devotees. If you have Balinese friends who have been away from Bali for sometimes or have been settled foreigners somewhere else, you may ask them, whenever they return or happen to have a chance visiting Bali, I bet first thing appears at a very first glance on their mind is Balinese Traditional Food........, Babi Guling (suckling pig), nasi campur (rice with various kind of meats, egg & vegetables), jaje bali (balinese style cakes) and many more.

Few days ago I had a chance to have my lunch at Pesinggahan that well known of its fish dishes.

Pesinggahan is a small village located at the eastern part of Bali. Very close to the famous Tourism Object - Gua Lawah (Balinese Temple located in front of a big bat cave). The fish that they use as the main ingredients is Tuna Fish; caught by local fishermen which guarantee the freshness of the fish used. I never had any experience got not fresh fish during my time having my meals there. If you are sensitive you can feel a bit itchy on your tongue when having a fresh fish which already not fresh.

Mainly there are 3 types of main dishes served there.
First is the Fish Soup. They will serve this automatically accompanied with a plate of rice as soon as you take your seat and order your drinks. The soup consists of several pieces of fish in a clear broth but if you stir it, the sediment off all spices that set at the bottom of the bowl will mix and make the broth not clean anymore. A pinch of fried onion spread on top of the soup give a nice blended smell between the soup and the fried onion itself.

Then they will serve the second and third main dishes,
Sate Lilit Languan and Pepes Ikan Tuna (Roasted tuna fish wrapped with banana leaves).


Sate Lilit Languan or Tuna Fish Satay, is satay that is sticked on a young bamboo skewer - bigger than normal satay skewer, seasoned with traditional Balinese all spices seasoning and baked.








The Pepes Ikan Tuna tastes a bit hot for me. But it is really delicious. The smell of the burnt banana leaves covered the tuna fish gave an additional sensational smell to the fish.

But I should remind you, these dishes only taste good when you eat it while it is still hot. Otherwise, it won't be as good as it should be.



As accompaniment they will also serve a plate of fried nuts and steamed water spinach mixed with hot chilly sauce. And the most important accompaniment is the SAMBAL MATAH, a sauce is a combination of onion which is sliced thinly, hot chilly - also sliced thinly, baked fermented fish (smell really strong!), coconut oil, salt and a squeeze of fresh citrus lime.

Next time if you have a chance driving to eastern part of Bali, do not forget to try this traditional food. Actually along Kusamba village up to Pesinggahan village you will find many stalls selling Sate Lilit Ikan, Pepes Ikan and Soup Fish, but the most famous is the one that I cover at the beginning.