today is a very special day guys I got invited to a local home here in Bali to cook and enjoy
some Balinese food now I've already been to quite a few local restaurants here in Ubud the food has
been amazing but I think there's something to be said about actually going to a local home
and getting that experience especially if I'm gonna have the opportunity to help cook so I
hope you guys will enjoy this video uh their home is actually all the way up on campuhan
bridge where if you guys saw my last video of Ubud is in this beautiful like winding path in
the rice field so I've got about a 30 minute walk to get there but it's going to be amazing
I hear the songs
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perfect nice to meet you thank you so much for having me
this is beautiful oh my gosh so guys I unfortunately had some technical sound
issues with this part of the video but basically uh this lovely couple
odek and Tara had invited me to their home for a traditional Balinese dinner but before we got
started with that they gave me a tour of their beautiful home which is also set in the more
traditional Balinese architecture style and they just kind of talked with me about how important
it is to them to keep up these traditions and to kind of share them with others so that they're
not forgotten with all the globalization that is of course happening in many parts of the world so
what are the elements that um really encapsulate like a traditional Balinese kitchen would you say
um open fire open fire
similar drama right so we believe that when you entrance the house and the oldest spirit
that spirit will be burned by Brahma right so that's why it's right at the entrance so
we have a good place in the top to dry uh for the wood and then we use clay all the
clipboard is bamboo so basically it's all designed by poles like this and then by row
bricks raw bricks this is mug right and it's just dried and then it's just form and it's
not being cooked or burn to make it into like red bricks like that usually there's a there's
a bench like this to prepare food this is for the this Deli yeah but this one is a rice house
during ceremony when we cook with a lot of people then we we prepare here so all the
chopping is done on this side and then after that so usually in a big occasion
actually man the one who's cooking oh really yeah woman making offerings oh that's so interesting
wow cooking is very Savage right uh-huh well do a lot of cutting and bowling and sewing
and killing right it's like how in the west you know it's always the men who barbecue I guess
and stuff is like you know the man's thing the barbecue domain and big cooking is done by man
offerings hmm that's really cool today I think we will cook simple daily Balinese
food so be great yeah so it's whatever that we usually eat daily so there is uh
you know in Indonesia we have many different ethnics groups and value is only one of them
so when you see Nasi Goreng that's not balanced that's sort of a mismatch of Indonesian food
we use something very simple like uh like for example that's we're gonna make okay
it's a spinach vegetable just thin and then
mung beans dusting and then we put grated coconut oh foreign
so this is a Tamarind wood this is what we usually use to cut things Tamarind is
um I've only seen it a couple times it's a sort of fruit right the brown uh fruit the
one that's really sour yeah yeah all right let's uh start with that maybe the peppers
first yeah your coffee is right there oh thank you so much this is the traditional
Balinese coffee you were saying right to the Village amazing give this a try
it's not Thunder oh that's really nice that's a really rich cup of coffee delicious
very good very good whoa that knife is intense the knives almost look like they're handmade here am
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that is an onion or a shallot salad very nice so we make the peppers we're gonna make tuna peppers
purpose is that uh till now that we put spices in it and then we will steam it with inside the
Banana Leaf so we're just taking these bunches and kind of roughly chopping them yeah kind of
actually just dividing it in half and then we just kind of want to get rid of the harsh stems yep and
then maybe just cut the leaves in the house because when they still not get really small
thank you
so after you're done with that we're gonna steam it and then we're gonna
make it mix it with with sambal and with a combo sambal is a spicy things
I really like this brush
is it quite normal that in Balinese culture that uh children are taught
to cook at a fairly young age or does that happen
um more like when they're closer to adulthood when I was kid yeah I was yeah we helped a lot
in the kitchen yeah during on daily basis to do something that is mundane you know I like
greeting coconut and stuff or chopping things like this but nowadays I don't think it's good
do they do they have like microwaves here and just like put some pizza in there or
something about these parents are much more they're all working with yeah yeah they do
practical things the worst example is that instant noodles oh yes they installed noodles
yeah like noodle cups yeah yeah so there's a you know so mixing thing in Bali is a big
deal so we mix vegetable we mix everything first before we doing anything so we could salt mm-hmm
it is pepper ground pepper this is coconut oil okay
we're just gonna wing it right it's depend on the tree on your taste so
we just put this is uh chili and then this is garlic right put salad in it
and then we put tomato just for the it's it's always it's about
sweet sour those combinations in the aroma so this when we put turmeric and ginger right
this one is American Ginger right and then this one is uh slice what is it called um
lemongrass lemongrass lemongrass yeah so we put sliced lemongrass in it thank you
and that banana leaf just kind of helps like hold in all that flavor yeah yeah that's cool
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and it never Burns uh no it's a it's a it's water underneath that and so it's just interesting
so I usually start with this yeah so the coconut mix it with red juice
so that might be enough let me charge me
so we're not gonna use very spicy one
let's see pepper you can put brown sugar in here
so this is when you can taste first the mix and then if it's need sugar it's needs salt chili
more chili or less this is where it is all right get this try first taste though somebody's here
it's really nice
okay um
oh we're making a lot yeah but for the girls also
well we're gonna test you on all the names oh no I was about to ask you guys I'm just like
I'm gonna need your help to know exactly what each one is because uh I definitely don't want to get
anything wrong oh dick could you uh actually take the viewers through each dish here just so we know
what we're looking at this is the mix veggies the mung beans with spinach yeah and this is coconut
veggies and this one is I guess it's the tuna steam tuna in chicken oh that's one
the chicken yeah chicken in Banana Leaf yeah I mean that one over there the other
one is a steamed tuna tuna this one is a mix tuna right yes that's the the tuna with the
sambal Mata with the raw salads and chilies and coconut and then the other one is the
sardines yeah the little fish oh that one is the chicken right yes okay when you make coconut oil
there is a coconut bit lovable yeah after you cook it and they turn it into um uh this called Peppers
so it's like really rich uh coconut fat essentially this is mixed with some
spices and cinnamon Leaf cinnamonly wrapped in bamboo and then it's it's it's burned barbecue
okay this looks amazing thank you guys so much for having me this is just wonderful I'm excited
to dig in it is the next day friends and sadly I didn't want to put in my reactions to the food uh
just because it got so dark and the quality of the footage wasn't good but believe me when I
tell you the food was amazing like just look at the flavors that were in there like everything
that uh oh deck and Tara prepared for me was just amazing so I hope you guys enjoyed this video I
hope that you will find a way to try Balinese food for yourself and of course if there isn't you know
a Balinese restaurant in your city or if you can't make it to Bali right away we always do have the
option to try some of these amazing Cuisines by cooking at home and this actually brings us to
the end of my time in Ubud uh I am leaving in the next hour to new Anita nusa penida is an
island just off the coast of Mainland Bali and I will be there for about four nights it looks like
a very special place so thank you guys so much for tuning in I hope you're having a fantastic
day the rain is really starting to come down now and keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys
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