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#5 WARUNG MASTOK First opened back in 1962, this warung originally started off as a little stall inside Pasar Kreneng (the market), but they did such a roaring trade that a move to new, bigger digs was...
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#6 WARUNG SURAMADU (SATE KAMBING BATAN SABO) This warung has been here since 1975, so I’m pretty sure that they’ve got their signature dish of sate kambing (goat sate) down pat. Watching the small...
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#7 WARUNG ODAH (PANTAI SEGARA SANUR) This tiny, humble shack on the side of the road in Sanur is a must-visit if you’re in the area. A family-run business, this is a mother-daughter operation, and...
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#8 WARUNG JUKIT UNDIS Don’t be put off by the display of fried food in the front, the specialty of the house here is actually something totally different, a hearty soup – jukut undis. Made with a base...
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#10 WARUNG MAYRA Serving Singaraja-style food, this is one of my favourite warungs in Denpasar. An ice-cold es daluman as soon I sit down at Warung Mira hits the spot. The wobbly forest-green drink is...
View ArticleTIME TO GROW
I love my island home. Everyone knows it. I talk about it all the time. My two restaurants are here. My family. Our five dogs. My life. But everything changes. Growth is going to happen. It’s...
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As the new restaurant in Jakarta is starting to take shape, so is the scope of work. It’s time to get my hands dirty and pull this thing together, from the ground up. One of the hardest things about...
View ArticleRecipe Of The Day: Balinese Seaweed Salad
As you might know, I’ve been cooking up a storm of regional Indonesian over the past few months. From Balinese ceremonial food to curries from Aceh to Manado-style wild boar, my travels across this...
View ArticleRecipe Of The Day: Ferntips and Papaya Flower Stir Fry
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for Jakarta Post Travel about the unseen origins of Balinese cuisine. (If you haven’t yet read it, you can have a quick squizz here. It’s a great intro to today’s...
View ArticleRecipe of the Day: Jukut Undis
It’s been raining cats and dogs here in Bali this week. So much for the rainy season being over. It’s like Take Two, but the uncut version. Think flooded roads and getting caught in the rain on my...
View ArticleBrongkos and Banyan Trees in Jogja for #StreetFoodChef
If you watched they debut of Street Food Chef this morning on TransTV, you saw that I sampled a beef dish called brongkos koyor on a recent trip to Yogyakarta, or Jogja as it’s more commonly called. I...
View ArticleRecipe of the Day: Nasi Liwet (Javanese Coconut Chicken Rice)
If you’ve been to Indonesia, or have the pleasure of living here like I do, you’ll know that nasi is one of the go-to staples of every day eating. It’s Indonesia’s spaghetti, you could say, with just...
View ArticleStreet Food Chef in Bali (Finally!) This Sunday, TransTV
Filming my new show Street Food Chef has taken me all over the archipelago for the last few months. It’s been a ride, to say the least. But as they say, there’s no place like home, so I’m pretty happy...
View ArticleRecipe of the Day: Lawar Nyawan (Bee Larvae)
You’ve seen me eat fried cockroaches, scorpions, and crickets in Thailand, and I ate a bat and bush rat in Manado; so why not bee larvae from Bali? Lawar Nyawan is a traditional Balinese dish made...
View ArticleRecipe of the Day: Bebek Betutu
Filming last week’s episode of Street Food Chef in Bali took me up into Ubud, one of the best places to try a whole range of different local island eats – from ceremonial feasting dishes right through...
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