Bali Food Guide

Food in Bali is relatively plentiful, and the variety is enormous. Catering to the tourists that flock to its shores, Bali serves up its local cuisine as well as standard western fare for the less adventurous or the more homesick of tourists.

Rice is a staple dietary item on the Balinese menu. Amongst the most popular meals, are Nasi Campur (plain rice with with meat or vegetable accompaniments and spicy condiments), Nasi Goreng (Indonesian fried rice) and Mie Goreng (fried noodles) , Satay-skewered meat with a spicy peanut sauce and Gado Gado -an Indonesian salad, served with deliciously spicy peanut sauce.

Soups usually with noodles or meat and fish balls can be bought from the warungs (stalls) and the food carts that circulate in the streets in the late afternoon. Some warungs serve the more traditional meal of Nasi Campur (MixedRice, with chicken or meat, and vegetables).

There are a wide variety of exotic tropical fruits such as mangoes, mangosteen, bananas, jackfruit, rambutan, markisah, pineapple, papaya, logan, melon, oranges, custard-apple, and of course, the fabled durian the same one that is banned in hotels and airplanes!