Tag: Balinese food
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Hidden gems

Somehow Matt – not unlike a truffle pig – always sniffs out the best food haunts. Here is his review of a Balinese seafood place we (sorry … HE) discovered. Only a few streets into Sanur suburbia, serenity can be found in a seafood mixed rice plate locally known as Nasi Campur. Served in a…
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In search for the suckling pig

I realise my food posts are really not geared toward our vegan and vegetarian friends, and while we usually eat very little meat I feel following a plant-based diet in Bali would be forgoing the majority of amazing traditional dishes Bali has to offer. I had my first Babi Guling at a small warung on…
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Rocky start to an ongoing love affair

“Ich scheiss auf Nasi Padang!” Fran, 1999 That’s what I mumbled under my breath as I was about to have a food revelation, marking the beginning of my obsession with Balinese food. We had been trotting down dark, deserted roads in the back of Kuta for more than half an hour and I couldn’t give…