Cooking Class in Bali (Balinese Food) with us GK BaliTrans – Vacationing on the Island of the Gods is not enough just to visit the beaches. To complete your holiday experience, you should also try various typical Balinese foods.
Apart from offering beautiful natural wealth, Bali also has culinary richness and diversity. These foods can certainly be a special attraction for tourists.

Balinese Food

Balinese cuisine is one of the most complex cuisines in the world. Using an extraordinary variety of spices, mixed with fresh vegetables, chicken, fish, seafood, and even pork. As part of Indonesian culinary delights, Balinese cuisine shows authentic traditions as well as influences from other regional Indonesian cuisines. Moreover, thanks to Bali’s position in history as an important port location in the Indonesian spice trade, Balinese cuisine also has influences from outside such as China and India.

As an island whose population is predominantly Hindu, Bali’s culinary traditions are somewhat different from other regions in Indonesia, where during festivals and religious celebrations there are many special foods prepared as offerings, as well as other dishes that are consumed communally during celebrations. Another influence of Hindu culture on Balinese cuisine is that beef is rarely, if not not served at all.

In the Balinese culinary world, there is a spice that is the basic ingredient of Balinese cuisine, namely ‘Basa gede’ or ‘basa rajang’. Basa gede has ingredients including garlic, red chilies, Asian shallots, nutmeg, ginger, turmeric, palm sugar, cumin, shrimp paste and bay leaves.