Barbacoa popular with Aussies in Bali

klaatu

Smoke wrotebut the moderators break those rules and it ok .It a joke

and the moderators are always posting shit hehe..meanwhile if I even look at a BBQ now I'll be clogged up for a week,give me tempe and chilli, but would love a decent bowl of spagbog or a good pizza,none of which exist in this neck of the woods

BKT

My parents live in Gold Coast, my mum complains she can't by decent meat and seafood there, not like at home anyway. Bit hard to have a decent BBQ with out decent produce. I think a lot of what makes a good BBQ is what you're putting on it.

samsiam

klaatu wroteand the moderators are always posting shit hehe..meanwhile if I even look at a BBQ now I'll be clogged up for a week,give me tempe and chilli, but would love a decent bowl of spagbog or a good pizza,none of which exist in this neck of the woods

My missus makes awesome spagbog...and pizzas

Joe Writeson

Smoke wroteAdam, Have you ever been to the USA ? Have you ever been to a Texas BBQ ? have you ever been to a St Louis BBQ ? How about to a Brazilian BBQ ? if you never been to Texas how cn you comment on it ?

Having been brought up in a country where the outdoor BBQ is only a fairly recent development I retain no nationalistic fervour regarding my countrymen's ability to burn dead animals...but having traveled extensively I do feel qualified to remark on, and add to, Smoke's comments. Note these are pretty much generalisations garnered over several years and visits to various countries. Texas BBQ ... yes, good, heavy on the red meat and low on chicken and pork, lamb chops considered gay, sauces tend to have really imaginative names like Texas BBQ Australian BBQ ... good cross section of all meats and a propensity for prawns, but lack of imagination with the sauces. Brasilian BBQ ... red meat invariably very very 'rare', chicken and pork usually marinated in salt water then grilled and served up on swords ... which when considering the typical Brasilian male's ability to get overexcited relatively quickly is NOT a good idea. Arabic/Lebanese BBQ ... lots and lots and lots and lots of Lamb marinated in a variety of spices and sauces, especially limes, pepper and mint, well worth seeking out as an experience to enhance your BBQurial knowledge. Pilipino BBQ - a penchant for whole beasts which means longer cooking times, which means that the men have more time to drink beer, which of course is NOT a problem...until they start playing with guns...sauces tend to have a Creole basis. British BBQ - KFC or Big Macs after Dad finally gives up after five hours of trying to light his newly purchased B&Q grill and takes the starving family out to the mall. Sauces in the sachets stoopid..duhhhh. St. Louis/Cajun BBQ - without doubt the best I personally have ever experienced, the variety, the style, the Creole sauces, the whole joy and dedication of the grill operator, all add up to make a memorable event ... RIP Big Leroy of Global Marine Services, Batam, that man KNEW his ribs and chicken like no other. Special mentions Indonesian mini BBQ - used in restaurants to grill your Satay under your very nose, lovely but one problem for me, portions never big enough. Vegetarian BBQ - a total oxymoron but a quick troll through the internet will produce a shitload of 'Veggibarby' recipes, should you be accommodating enough to offer any of these at your barby, you can expect the salad botherers hanging over your shoulder at the grill making sure that their pristine courgettes don't get 'contaminated' with the fluids and juices of proper food. If they get too annoying just announce that most of the meat being used is from endangered species and this is usually enough to send them off to the internet to write about you on omellettesaremurder.com

Fred2

BKT wroteMy parents live in Gold Coast, my mum complains she can't by decent meat and seafood there, not like at home anyway. Bit hard to have a decent BBQ with out decent produce. I think a lot of what makes a good BBQ is what you're putting on it.

Tell your mum to buy a car, ashmore city meats or nerang fair meats, I have no problem finding a good butcher.

klaatu

Gurkha wroteI lived there for 2 years and could only come to one conclusion about Australia: Brits with sunburn!

And did you turn white after leaving Nepal?

klaatu

Gurkha wroteNope, Ive always been black - even after I left Zimbabwe.

OK, just wondering bout your name

davita

BBQ'd ribs from Naughty Nuris in Batu Belig....yummy! and the shake, shake, shake martinis...funny! Naughty Nuri's Warung | Batubelig, Bali

klaatu

Gurkha wroteSo you think us brothers can't enlist in the Brigade of Gurkhas?

No I just thought that Ghurkas were Nepalese

JohnnyCool

klaatu wroteNo I just thought that Ghurkas were Nepalese

Aren't ghurkas pickled cucumbers?

JohnnyCool

Gurkha wrotePlease can you get the spelling correct

Are [I]Gurkhas[/I] savoury [B]Nepalese[/B] cucumbers, then? Note that I [I]do[/I] know how to spell Gherkin and the difference. I stayed with an ex-Ghurka in Pokhara once. He used to guard the Crown Jewels in London, (or so he told me). He was married to an English woman. My bungalow had red carpets, a glorious view of the fish-tail mountain, and cannabis plants 2-3 metres high right outside the door. Lovely couple ("Captain Mal" and I forget his wife's name). I spent a week or two paddling a canoe on the lake trying to photograph butterflies. No idea why, even to this day. Buffalo steaks were sort of OK, if you weren't distracted by the giant spiders crawling up your legs. I went for a long walk one day, up and down a nearby valley (nearly killed me - trekking stoned is not a good idea). When I got back, I was told there were still Nepalese "tigers" in them there hills and I could have been eaten. I saw a western guy there "dressed" up/down as Jesus arrive walking bare-foot with a few hangers-on (definitely not Sherpas). Not sure how he made it from Goa. Trying to [I]leave[/I] Pokhara was an adventure in itself. Pack everything and go to the "airport". Cows all over the runway. "Sorry - no plane today - weather not good". Three times! I've thought about going back to Nepal one day for another visit. Not sure about Pokhara. I sat on a "bus" from Kathmandu to Pokhara, on the roof because you couldn't breathe inside of it. Every now and then, people would point out where another "bus" had crashed into a ravine. The cucumbers with chilli were OK but it's not easy to light a joint on top of a bus when it's going like a Yeti out of Hell, plus worrying about how your guitar is handling being in the "baggage section" (and/or stolen at the next stop). In the end, a plane finally landed (maybe Royal Yeti Airline - I forget). Landed in Gorahkpur, an absolutely amazing shit-hole of the first magnitude, (at least at that time). With all the sherpas who recently died on the [I]Let's Climb Everest[/I] expeditions, I've crossed that off my list. Not enough, if any, butterflies around Base Camp 1. :icon_eek:

samsiam

^ could have recruited some fun soldiers but. On a side note....I read somewhere about trekking to everest base camp only, you walk there from wherever and stay a couple days in base camp only admiring the mountains and everest itself. Anyone know about this ?....might be a good trip with the kids one day.

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