Balinese Cooking Courses
Djani's Cooking Class, Lovina / 2 hours
Djani's Restaurant (ph 41708), 2 hr cooking course (in English), including shopping in the morning market and preparing of about 5 or 6 traditional recipes
Cost is 100,000 Rp per person, min 2 people
Balinese Cooking, Ubud / 2 hours
A selection of fascinating traditional Balinese dishes are demonstrated, with participants preparing enough food for their own lunch. The group are taught to eat native style, with the hand or socalled pakai tangan. A comprehensive set of recipes are given out with step-by-step instruction on reproducing these delicious spicy dishes in your own kitchen. Facility: The rate above is inclusive of materials, tools, instructor and mineral water
Price : USD$ 55.00 / person
http://www.kecak.com/course/baliothers_course.html
Casa Luna Cooking School, Ubud / Half Day
Australian Janet De Neefe holds regular half day classes at the boutique Honeymoon Guesthouse on Mon, Tues, and Wed every week. Early morning visit to local market to be involved in the purchase of ingredients, then learn to prepare a range of Sambals, rice dishes, and desserts.
Price : AUD$ 38 / person
Source: Bali on Any Budget mag April 2003 - published by Garuda Indonesia
Bumbu Bali Cooking Classes, Tanjung Benoa / Half or Full Day
Heinz van Holzen, proprietor of Bumbu Bali restaurant, specialises in authentic Balinese cuisine. Every weekday you can participate in half or full day lessons starting with a visit to the local market to purchase ingredients.
Price : AUD$ 105 / person (Half Day)
Price : AUD$ 135 / person (Full Day)
Source: Bali on Any Budget mag April 2003 - published by Garuda Indonesia
Traditional Balinese Cooking Lesson, Gulingan village
I did this one, it was one of the best days I had in Bali (see my diary for more), but you didn't learn much cooking, you more "watched" and only participated a little bit, and didn't even get the recipies in the end. But it was a great day. My travel guide picked me up from my hotel in Kuta.
Price : AUD$40 /person (Half Day)
Book through Tour East Travel or you may be able to contact June directly, who was my guide the day that I went. His Mobile +62 8174786945 and his Email putu1974@yahoo.com
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Tabanan gado gado
(making gado gado in street side home-store in Penebel, Bali)
Toge Goreng
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My Cooking Course Story:
Thurs - 3rd June - 4th Day
Had an Indonesian breakfast this morning - Nasi Goreng and Fruit Juice. It was nice, but the best part was the company. The "waiter" I guess you could call him, sat down at my table for a chat. His nickname is "Junior", and his real name is Wayan, which means first born.
At 8am, my driver picked me up to go to the cooking course. The course costs 240,500 (about AUD $37) We drove to a rural village called Gulingan. It's a wealthy area to live, but not considered as wealthy as other areas.
After about 40 minutes of driving, we walked along rice terraces to get to the house. They served soft drink (coke, fanta, etc) when we got there, although I just drank my water. Then they served sweet-potato chips, and 2 other delicious things that I can't remember the names of. One of them was made from a root of a plant, and the other tasted like golden syrup dumplings except crispier. The centre of the treat was made from palm sugar. Mmmmm.
Then we went for a walk around the village while we were waiting for the traditional Balinese coffee to be served.
The walk was really the highlight for me. It's fascinating to see how they live. Every place had their own temple. There was water from a river along the sides of the roads. Things were very quiet and relaxed here.
The company on this tour was the best. Tony came (Melbourne guy I met on the shuttle), as well as a family from Adelaide (mum, dad, and 2 young primary-school aged children).
The kids were really quiet and well behaved, I think because they were worn out from the previous day @ the water fun park.
After the walk, we drank the thick, grainy, goup that is the traditional Balinese coffee.
It only starts to taste good with about... hmm.. 6 (SIX!) heaped sugars :)
Then it was time to cook.
We basically just watched them prepare the food, then each of us had a small turn @ mimicking while the rest of us either criticized or praised our attempts ;). Then we got to eat it - YUMMO.
Yellow Rice, Chicken Satay, Beans - I can't remember what else. Small spiders kept crawling all over me :(
Being out there was so very different than Kuta. It was hot and green and so relaxing. The company is really what made it great though, bad company could've ruined the whole event.
We got back into Kuta, then I went shopping @ a "fixed price" "air-conditioned" shopping centre. Except for the prices and items available, it is much the same as, shopping at somewhere like Myers, Central Square (Ballarat).
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