BALI FOOD TOUR
Bali Bites, a Bali Food Tour
Tired of ordering nasi goreng for every meal? Then this street food tour is for you.
Bali Bites, a food tour in Bali with 15+ tastings
Whether you’re a Bali novice for a frequent visitor with multiple trips under your belt, you’re sure to try something new on this street food tour.
After two months traveling around Indonesia from Sumatra to Java to Raja Ampat and to Bali, my husband and I were eager to find something more to love than nasi goreng, and learn more about Bali than its smoothie bowl cafes and health retreats.
With millions of tourists visiting Bali every year, it can be hard to find the “good stuff”. We knew beneath wellness retreats, the beach resorts, and the “Eat Pray Love,” there’s a backbone of Bali made up of the daily lives of the Balinese people. The best place to find them? The streets of Denpasar!
That’s how we found A Chef’s Tour’s Bali Bites Bali food tour.
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With promises of akar, a local Balinese fire water, and as much street food as we could eat, we headed out for Inna Bali Heritage Hotel to meet our guide for an undercover journey into Bali’s street food scene—the ones most tourists never find.
Our first stop? Delicious, fried bananas or “pisan goreng,” straight from the frying pan, warm, greasy, and delicious. Our guide explained how Indonesians discovered their love for “goreng” after the Portugese first brought flour to this nation of islands. With something fried already in our stomachs, we were off for a great start, but the next was even better—a local-favorite joint for pork sate.
Like everywhere else, history and food run side by side in Bali. Sate tells the story of Indonesia’s relationship with Malaysia, while the name “pisan goreng” bears witness to the Dutch colonization of Indonesia. Pisan means “banana” in Dutch. These are the street foods Indonesian eat daily, continuing to carve out their own story and tell it in new ways on the plate.
After 13+ more tastings, including a swing through Chinatown for “Warung Soto Babat, and a lingering stint to a bustling local market complete with live music and fresh fruit, we left with a newer love for Indonesia and an understanding for the culture that can only be earned from sharing food together.
Tip:
Make sure to come hungry! You’re going to need it.
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Who is this food tour for?
If like us you are more than a little wary of the infamous “Bali Belly,” that’s exactly why you need a food tour of Bali. Each stop is carefully picked, where shops and street food stalls cook with filtered bottled water and hundreds of tourists before you have all tested each and every stop.
Why a food tour? Why not a "regular" tour?
The best way to get to know a culture is through its food. Food is everything we are; it’s our mothers, our grandmothers, our childhood friend’s house, our home, everything. Any tour of Bali can take you to Tirta Empul, and the "Gateway of Heaven," brushing elbows with everyday Balinese. But if you really want to do more than brush elbows, do a food tour. Taste the dishes that mean the most to them, and get to know who they are and what they love.
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