amongst my top (best) things I enjoy doing while traveling is making my hands dirty trying the street food...here is some from Bali:
This sounds very African dish but the Indonesian name is Gado Gado and this is a variation with rice.
the brown plate is were actually the lady has just finished the sauce grinding peanuts with some soy sauce, water and palm sugar (note the three plastic water bottles with holes in the lid) and chilli and garlic.
the fried tofu, some beansprouts and the rice (already made sushi style in the plastic bags for easy cutting..) are then added and served in a cone shaped piece of something like bread paper.
Gado Gado can be found served also with tempeh, green long beans, potato and eggs...cost 5000 IDR (35 eurocents!)
This lady is the simple street version of a Patisserie made in Bali and the most traditional one amongst her sweets is what they call "sticky rice" for us (tourists!!!) to understand, it is basically a glutinous roll of rice filled with either shredded coconut, palm sugar sweetened red beans or sweet black rice.
it's actually very spread out in South East Asia as I remember trying something similar when I was in China...I guess there must be a name for the Indonesian version...
I tried the one (roll shaped bottom right with the black stripe) cost 1000 IDR (7 eurocents!!)
This morning this smiley englishless lady on the side of the street, nearby the Monkey Forest in Ubud and surrounded by Western bars and restaurants, invited me to try what she was preparing and she actually served me one of the tastiest breakfast I have ever tried!!
the making is very straightforward as she just put on the paper sweet black rice, two different balls: a glutinous sweet potato one in palm sugar Biji Salak (see the bowl with the green scoop) and a green one prepared with pandan extract that is stuffed with liquid palm sugar Keplon (see next to the blue stapler that she uses to "seal" everything up at the end) and everything topped with shredded coconut and some more palm sugar....I loved it....cost 5000 IDR (35 eurocents), but I guess it was because of the location!!!
This sounds very African dish but the Indonesian name is Gado Gado and this is a variation with rice.
the brown plate is were actually the lady has just finished the sauce grinding peanuts with some soy sauce, water and palm sugar (note the three plastic water bottles with holes in the lid) and chilli and garlic.
the fried tofu, some beansprouts and the rice (already made sushi style in the plastic bags for easy cutting..) are then added and served in a cone shaped piece of something like bread paper.
Gado Gado can be found served also with tempeh, green long beans, potato and eggs...cost 5000 IDR (35 eurocents!)
This lady is the simple street version of a Patisserie made in Bali and the most traditional one amongst her sweets is what they call "sticky rice" for us (tourists!!!) to understand, it is basically a glutinous roll of rice filled with either shredded coconut, palm sugar sweetened red beans or sweet black rice.
it's actually very spread out in South East Asia as I remember trying something similar when I was in China...I guess there must be a name for the Indonesian version...
I tried the one (roll shaped bottom right with the black stripe) cost 1000 IDR (7 eurocents!!)
This morning this smiley englishless lady on the side of the street, nearby the Monkey Forest in Ubud and surrounded by Western bars and restaurants, invited me to try what she was preparing and she actually served me one of the tastiest breakfast I have ever tried!!
the making is very straightforward as she just put on the paper sweet black rice, two different balls: a glutinous sweet potato one in palm sugar Biji Salak (see the bowl with the green scoop) and a green one prepared with pandan extract that is stuffed with liquid palm sugar Keplon (see next to the blue stapler that she uses to "seal" everything up at the end) and everything topped with shredded coconut and some more palm sugar....I loved it....cost 5000 IDR (35 eurocents), but I guess it was because of the location!!!
reuse of a Corona bottle for a local, very sweet, ginger (temulawak) soft drink!
One of the most common colourful activity around Bali (and Hindu temples all-over the world) is the practice to give flowers (and food and/or fake money) as offerings to the gods...that's what this lady caters for....
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