irna
I went to a friend's wedding today which served balinese traditional food, its name was nasi begana I guess..complete with its complimentary and some other kinds of bali trad.food
It's not the 1st time eating balinese food for me, but still I can't start to enjoy & like it...even it's delicious & I'm an indonesian that often eat spicy food.
The taste of ginger and other spices are too strong and the composition is really really...bali, i dont know...i cant explain...
People from asian countries might still be able to accept the taste, but what about people from europe and other countries?
I dont think they enjoy eating balinese traditional food...( is it? )
ColinF
Sorry.........that last post was, of course, mine. Forgot to log on before I posted!!
Colin.
Dyah
hi irna,
about spicy or not spicy ... i think today more people are open for the other taste... ok in the european traditional cuisine can´t you find or jut a little bit asian spices (ginger, cinammon ..)... but now exist modern cuisine with a different taste ... more people are open for the other taste... thank their visit to the other country., and i see that more people learn to enjoying their experience with traditional food.
And today you can find in europe very much restaurant with delicious dishes from other country... of course we can compar balinese food in one Indonesian resto here with a food in Bali.
Comparing to asian people ... i see very much people, equall whre they are ... they eat their rice, their noodle ...their dishes ... or visit Mc donald, Kentucy fried chicken ...
My husband (german) for example can eat more spicy than i. You can ask Bli Gede in this forum how much sambal can he eat ... i think very spicy!
BLI GEDE
Sorry Allan,
Just think [i]mashed potatoes and gravy, mashed potatoes and gravy[/i]... it works quite well until you find a boney bit :lol: Bli Gede
truth sayer
I was invited to Balinese friends home last year and they made all vegetarian Balinese food, sate and all. Absolutely no meat of any kind. I was pleased to meet many vegetarian Balinese, there exists thousands now on Bali. :D
I became a vegetarian after living in Bali.
We had no toilet, hardly anyone did. You did your "duty" out under the banana trees, and the pigs would wait nearby, ready to gobble up what was left behind. :shock:
I was raised eating meat 3 times a day, but something about actually seeing how little chickens and ducks get their heads lopped off, kicked in the realization that eating meat causes suffering to the innocent animals. Plus the fact that pigs are disgusting and birds spread bad diseases. :(
truth sayer
A picture is worth a thousand words 8)
Why is my last post cut off on the end :?:
matsaleh
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[quote=truth sayer]Why is my last post cut off on the end :?:[/quote]
Because Allan's linked photo is very large, which has stretched the thread so it no longer fits on the screen. :roll:
BLI GEDE
One of the dominant flavors of "Bumbu Lengkap", and the one that I can't find in Canada is Tabia Ben (
piper longum).
http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/Pipe_lon.html.
As well, the sharpness of lengkuas makes the impression of Balinese food a long lasting one. I have heard Javanese friends say that balinese food is too strong for them, and conversely I've heard Balinese friends say that E. Javanese food is too bland. Except for people I know from Padang, all my Indonesian friends are unanimous in their dislike of my Indian Curries. Both the smell and taste are too strange they've said.
I really like Balinese home cooking especially nasi selo (rice steamed with chopped up bits of sweet potatoe) and a nice coarse, hot sambal. My friends mom makes it with whole cloves of garlic, barely crushed with the skin still on! great stuff! The only thing that I Can't stomach is Lawar. Raw pig's blood is too far over the edge for me. Actually I used to eat it until I had some that had bits of rough bone in it. Man I'll eat
anything, but bloody shards of bone... :roll: :shock:
Matur Suksema, Bli Gede
irna
[b]Re: RE: traditional food[/b]
[quote=BLI GEDE]
As well, the sharpness of lengkuas makes the impression of Balinese food a long lasting one. I have heard Javanese friends say that balinese food is too strong for them, and conversely I've heard Balinese friends say that E. Javanese food is too bland. Except for people I know from Padang, all my Indonesian friends are unanimous in their dislike of my Indian Curries. Both the smell and taste are too strange they've said.
I really like Balinese home cooking especially nasi selo (rice steamed with chopped up bits of sweet potatoe) and a nice coarse, hot sambal. My friends mom makes it with whole cloves of garlic, barely crushed with the skin still on! great stuff! The only thing that I Can't stomach is Lawar. Raw pig's blood is too far over the edge for me. Actually I used to eat it until I had some that had bits of rough bone in it. Man I'll eat [i]anything[/i], but bloody shards of bone... :roll: :shock:
Matur Suksema, Bli Gede[/quote]
Yes, the taste of lengkuas is very strong Bli,
but still the taste is strange, there's smthing in the composition i think, it's so unique.
Food from Sulawesi, Padang or other places in Sumatera is also spicy with various and lots of condiment..but still the taste's not as unique as Balinese food.
U dont like food with blood?
There's a traditional food from North Sumatera, made of meat (could be pig, chicken, etc) and their blood...
And the taste is sooooo delicious, u should try it i guess...tasty, spicy and full of blood...he2 :twisted:
Roy
For me, the most unique aspect of traditional Balinese food isn’t so much the food itself, as the way it is prepared and consumed.
Warungs and restaurants aside, in the Balinese compound, there is no dining room, nor even a kitchen table with chairs.
Food preparation for the meals, which will last the whole day, begins in the very early morning, at, or even earlier, than sunrise. The dishes to be made that day depends largely on what was a good price, and available at the nearest market just hours earlier...well before sunrise.
These dishes are all cooked on wood burning stoves, and I am convinced that the cooking process has something very special to do with compound made Balinese dishes, which are very distinctive to Warung or restaurant prepared dishes. These stoves are left on slow heat during the whole day, and family members eat when they want to eat...privately and not within conversational groups. The Balinese do not dine in any way westerners are accustomed. While I thought that was very odd when I first moved to Bali, it is completely understandable to me now as all the various family in the compound are on various time schedules during their very busy days.
Babi guling, in spite of it being the “national dish” of Bali is rarely eaten by the Balinese outside of special events or ceremonies. It is just too expensive to enjoy outside of the context of a ceremony like an oton or otonon ceremony.
In my opinion, for anyone who wants to experience “real” Balinese food, find a way to a traditional compound, the earlier in the day, the better, and enjoy! .
