Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Bali traditional Foods

Bali -Traditional Dessert
Real food is not readily available in Bali tourists Bali Tourism unless the family to dinner or go to the temple. Restaurants catering for tourists and Balinese cuisine is not for real. The reason is that there are too many to prepare, prepare to be large, but it must be time to eat fresh. It is often spicy and very tasty. Traditional Balinese dishes with banana leaves.

Bali chickens much healthier and have a real chicken flavor, but can be more severe than in the West battery-fed chickens. Battery feeding chickens lived only 41 days, specialized production and artificial breeding of large breasts and short legs. Now this situation appears to reduce the 41 days.

Etiquette
One on food, beverages and rules of conduct. Cake is always served coffee or tea, nuts and rice wine krupuk, tea, food and water or tuak. Host guests usually do not eat

Bali to eat with their right hand, because the left is impure, a common belief throughout Indonesia. Bali did not receive their left hand or something, would not give up on anyone with their left hand.
Bali famous dishes
Bali famous dishes are:

Chicken  - Lawar
Lawar
Traditionally cooked by men, who cut the turtle or mango, coconut section, add all spices and mixed blood and so it is red.

Bobby Brighter Summer Day (Babi Guling in Bahasa)
Roast suckling pig is one of Bali's favorite, although the pigs are usually too old, not breast-feeding 3-6 month - they are stuffed with spices, impaled on a wooden pole and turned over to the coconut shell and wood fire for a two hours.
Bebek Betutu
Duck stuffed with spices and vegetables wrapped in banana leaves, three to four hours that is cooked, eat this dish is for special occasions.

Bali- Rujak
Rujak
A refreshing sweet and sour salad with mango or papaya, etc., immature fruit and sugar mixture, cold and salt.
Sauce
Some common seasonings:

Sambal chili very spicy seasoning.

Kecap Xin acid sauce.

Kecap Manis sweet soy sauce.

Dessert
Some dessert Number:

Black rice cake known as tofu: soy bean curd.

Dada crispy shelled soybeans has a special yeast strain mixture into a small cake, and then friends of those beans - it tastes a little nuts. Snack
Very tasty, but not spicy food or snacks are:

Tofu, also known as the Great Lakes or tofu: soy bean curd.

Shrimp Cracker
Krupuk shrimp crackers.

Tempe crunchy shelled soy has a special yeast strain mixture into a small cake, and friends of those beans - it tastes a little nuts.




Bali Drink
Tuak, Arak, and Brehm are the main Bali home brewing:

Tuak
Tuak by cutting either coconut or palm trees without the development of sugar flowers. Then, the sugary liquid into a container to collect the bamboo and the dissemination of fermentation. Drunk fermented palm tree sap all over tropical Asia, Africa and the Americas. This is a "todi English colonialists", in numerous small warungs drunk all over the island. It has about the same alcohol content of beer.

Brhem
Brehm
Brehm, pronounced "Broom", is rice wine. Can be purchased from the store, but we are home made. Arak, this is used in almost all of the ceremony. This is a pleasant drink, to drink clean, mix in the ice or Arak. It is the sweet, sticky rice or glutinous rice by the (as it is called). Rice cooked for several hours. Yeast is added. It is then allowed to ferment 3 days, then Brehm drains into a pan. Commercial plant, but the taste is not very good. This is not exported.
Arak
Arak is distilled tuak. It has a higher alcohol content was colorless. It has a very sharp, spicy flavor. In the absence of fermentation, can be bottled for sale. As the unpleasant taste, mixed spices Bali it. It can also be added to coffee or Brehm mixed. Arak is used as a ritual of the product. In the absence of sugar, Arak will continue and not tuak. It can not be a coincidence, the Mongols called airak the distilled liquor.

Bali Wine
In the past few years, the local wine has been produced using grapes in Australia. Red, white, pink, plant, and the two companies, hatten and the god of wine bottling.

Spices
Bali using a wide range of raw materials. To explain how they intend to in the article entitled Balinese recipes.
Fragrant seeds and nuts: base wangen

Candlenut: Kemiri
The Tung oil and is similar to a macadamia nut. This is from the Tung tree. It is used to thicken sauces. This is the work into a paste. Nutty taste, can not be eaten raw. Substitutes will cashew nuts, macadamia nuts, almonds, Brazil nuts.

Coriander seed: Ketumbar
Coriander seeds for curry. Fresh coriander seeds ground to solve the cooling body and stomach. They can be used as a pepper substitute.

Long Pepper: Tabiabun
This is a type of hot and sweet peppers. It has a shape similar to the chili.
Clove: Cengkeh
They are grown in the eastern Indonesian Moluccas. They have a clear camphor-like odor. They are used to make cigarettes in Indonesia alone Tedin.

Nutmeg: Para
Launched the European Competition clove spice. It is sweet, cooling the mouth, and help digestion.

Pepper: Merica
Pepper to stimulate appetite. Aromatic than the white pepper and black pepper, white pepper but hotter.

Sesame seeds: Lenge
They are used as a ground and thickening agent. They come from India, the world's one of the oldest seeds.

Rhizome and root: base Bebungkilan
Galangal: Essien River / Lengkuas / Laos
South ginger is ginger family. It looks similar, but larger. It has a sweet, woody smell.

Turmeric: Kunyit
Jianghuang Sheng Long to the ground about one meter high. It has many of the finger, and is member of the lily family. Finger skin is brown, bright orange spice color underneath. It is used to the color of curry. It can also be used for skin problems and herbal cosmetics.

Kunyit is a sacred, because it's the color dyes. Bali kinds of red, black and white rice in the rice fields. In order to enable them to color kunyit rice wine. This requires a certain product. Only a small amount of purchase. To kunyit origin story, see the article entitled Balinese rice.
Easter lily: Kencur
Jiang smaller than the South, it is very fragrant, has a unique taste, which is the typical food in Bali. It is a hybrid Tung, turmeric, garlic, so suna cekoh, this is a delicious condiment. It is used in herbal medicine. Thai people call it pro-Hom.

Jiang: Jae
Ginger grew up in Bali, but it may be from China. Better than fresh ginger ginger. It can help digestion, stomach pain and sore throat. Stored in a cool place. Break or cut off a piece, and then slice skin, chopped or crushed.
In the bud

Torch ginger: Bongkot
This is a tall, wild ginger. Pink flowers. Young shoots and buds are called kecicang and used for cooking. In some bud is eaten raw sambals. It can be added to soup or curry aroma. The young shoot can be ground into a paste or hit and the whole like lemongrass vote. It is used for seafood. Lemon grass: Sereh
This is a short-term, there is a unique thin lemon grass. It is related to citronella, bulbous root. It is the bulbous root is used, but it is not used in the Bali cooking, but used in Thai food a lot. It contains vitamins A and D
Sour taste

Tamarind: Lunak / Assam
Tamarind is a common spice used as sour. Tamarind dry areas, but also conducive to common in Bali. There are many in Singaraja, North Bali. They are very tall, spreading a special, lobulated, Tan Fruit. Tamarind fruit seeds. Soaking seeds in water and use the solution to the sour dishes.

See, entitled How to make tamarind water, Bali recipes articles. Dark red flesh block the sale, can be soaked in water, then strained and juice. Rhubarb, lemon juice can be used as alternatives.
Kaffir Lime: jeruk Purut / Le Mu
Leaves and fruit are used. Fruit small, has a strong lime flavor. Leaves, because the Road Enzheluke purut or Road Enlai Mu know, is dark green, smooth. Bali is also used as Calamondin or kalamansi lime type, as it is called in the Philippines. It is smaller than the Thai type.
Sweet, salty taste

Sea Salt: Garam
Sea salt is the only cooking salt used in Bali. It is produced in coastal areas, if A Gawah, East Bali. It is added to the coconut milk.

Soy sauce: Kecap Xin / Kecap Manis
China introduced the Indonesian. Kecap Manis is sweet, is used in marinades, stir-fried vegetables and sambals.
Shrimp paste: Terasi / Belacan
This sauce is a fermented smell crustaceans. In Bali is fried or baked. It is stored in a glass bottle wrapped in aluminum foil in the refrigerator. It is high in protein.

Palm sugar: Gula Gula Merah or Bali
This flower buds from the betel nut is widely used caramelised sugar. It has iron, vitamin B and lower in calories than white sugar. Substitute gold syrup or maple syrup.

Pepper: Cabe / Lombok / tabia Krinyi

Bali - Babi Guling
Columbus discovered America pepper. He believes this is pepper. Portuguese brought it to India about 1560. Pepper is an appetite. Red pepper is β-carotene and vitamin-rich red and green: The pepper is also rich in vitamin C
Cabe
This is a small, hot variety.

Lombok
This is a larger, more moderate version.
Tabia Krinying
This is the smallest and the most popular and most popular island of Bali. They do not need to seed. Red is usually the most popular and most sweet.

Garlic and onion

Red onion: Overlord Merah
Bali use a lot of onions. Bali, like onion, but a more powerful and smaller onions. They are peeled, sliced or mashed with other ingredients. Balinese people believe that child protection onion black magic. They use traditional medicine. They cool the body, to help skin problems and infection.
Garlic: Overlord Putih will
Bali is sweet and the garlic is much smaller than in the West. They are usually grinding, cutting with knives or other seasoning sauce from scratch. It is sometimes fried and deep-fried coconut add extra flavor.

Fried Onion: Overlord Goreng
Gold small onion pieces often added to dishes, including rice.
Herbs and leaves
Bay Leaf
Both ends of the leaves is. Upper leaf is green, lighter at the bottom, and bottom of the vein.

Pandan leaves: Road En Pandan reckless
The pandan leaf is mainly used for desserts, such as black rice pudding. Leaves long, spear-shaped. Rice can be steamed pandan leaves. Pandan leaves to boil water is very refreshing. Pandan is the cooling ingredients of traditional medicines. It helps bleeding gums and skin diseases.
Gray Basil: Kemangi
This is to add rice wine, such as day (SARASWATI)day, special occasions.

Sam Lead: Road Ensalamu
This leaf has a unique flavor, often used to dry. It has a delicate flavor

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Nusa Dua, Bali

The Area of Nusa Dua start of construction in 1974 as a consultant from the French study, SCETO (Societe Centrale pour l 'equpeent in 1970 and tour Ouetre - Mer), the feasibility study through PCI (Pacific Consultants International) in 1971 -1973 funds for the World Bank aid. Government of Indonesia has issued this management PT. British Dependent Territories citizens (Bali Tourism Development Corporation), the existing legal provisions and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia Regulation No. 27 of 1972 on November 12, 1972. 

The Nusa Dua is an elite international five-star resort hotels and resorts in Bali on the existing southern coastal side. It is located in Badung regency about 25 minutes drive from Bali International Airport. Nusa Dua and 350 hectares sample size luxury resort and one of the world's best tourism destination.

In fact, Nusa Dua's name is located on the island of Bali (Nusa is located south of Nusa Dua means two islands and an average of 2) is separated from the white sand.