Bali Food, Restaurant and Bars

The Food of Bali

The staple food of Bali is white, polished rice. Nowadays cooked rice (nasi) is of the fast growing "green-revolution" variety found everywhere in Asia. The traditional Balinese rice (beras Bali) tastes better, but is restricted to a few areas and is now mainly used as a ritual food.

Food in Bali - like everything else in Bali, is a matter of contrast. Just as there is male and female, good and evil, night and day, there is ordinary daily food and festival food intended for the gods.
Cooking in Bali - Despite the complex blending of spices and frag- rant roots that gives Balinese food its intriguingly different flavour, the typical Balinese kitchen is remarkably simple.
The Recipes :
- Babi Guling - Suckling pig roasted on a spit, stuffed with herbs, spices, chillies and rice.
- Bebek Betutu - Duck smoked in an earthen oven.
- Bubur Injin - Coconut rice-pudding with fruit.
- Lawar - Made of thinly chopped papaya,jackfruit,green beans, grated coconut, starfruit leaves and various indigenous spices. This dish is served with a variety of meats, such as pork or duck.

Restaurant & Bars in Bali

Some tourist restaurants present special Bali nights, featuring dishes such as suckling pig, a Balinese banquet favorite. Almost every restaurant will serve nasi goreng (Indonesian fried rice with a fried egg on top) and mie goreng (fried noodles with egg). These basic dishes are generally the favorites amongst tourists and travellers.

After last year's bombing incident, most mediocre restaurants are fighting hard to survive at all. A number of hotels and better restaurants have to do now without their foreign Chefs, and the food quality has sometimes significantly deteriorated even here. On the positive side, a number of foreign-owned but totally non-pretentious eateries with good food and atmosphere in the lower price range have appeared and become very popular.

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