Markit wrote
The simple solution is to buy the raw materials at your local market and learn to cook. You are retired and have oodles of time on your hands, I'm sure. I found the available raw materials here are great for Mexican food - tacos can be bought online or they have them for sale in DPS and everything else is here to be had. An hour cooking is like therapy for me (yeah, right?) and the results can be seen in my waistline.
I was wondering why there is such little interest in seafood in Bali? I don't understand how countries like Korea and Japan seem to use fish, seaweed, oysters, clams, squid, etc. in their diet there. I love seaweed in all forms, from Nori for sushi, to Kombu for Dashi. It's such a vitamin, mineral rich source of food! Can anyone explain why here in Bali, it's so uncommon? I know that most people, aren't used to refrigeration, but they do have ice, and could easily transport it fresh daily to all the various markets, the same as vegetables from Bedegul, chicken from the farms, eggs from the producers, on and on? Is it because they are stuck in tradition? Now there are refrigerated trucks, ice, coolers. So using an excuse that in the old days, people only near the Ocean eat fish, and people in the mountains only eat chickens. Why is Pork so expensive? It is cheap in America! Why is the beef here so tough? Why not, more Goat meat available at stores and markets? I know it's too hot for sheep. But all the other things could be made available if people wanted them.
From what I've seen and heard, from Balinese people, they don't seem to have much imagination, when it comes to food. When I ask about this subject, they say We don't do that. Like all the people here, do the same, think the same, eat the same. If I ask about something they are unfamiliar with, they will say I don't like that. I ask, have you tried it, and they say No. I will say, How do know you don't like it, if you've never tried it. I get a blank look on their face! Back to Seafood, Please!
