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There are so many balinese food and balinese warung at Tanah Lot area. Many food stall or warung sell various food and beverages a la Balinese such as babi guling (suckling pig), klepon, rujak, and tipat cantok. Babi Guling (Suckling Pig), may be the most famous Balinese cuisine. Babi Guling is a whole baby pig prepared over an open, corn husk fire. A long stick is inserted through the pig’s body from one end to the other after it is flavored, inside and out, with chopped spices that include shallots, garlic, ginger, turmeric, galangal, pepper coriander, candlenuts, chilies, lemon grass and lots of whole cassava leaves. The cassava leaves spread the spices evenly while the pig is being slowly grilled.
Rujak is mixture of many kinds of a refreshing sweet and sour salad containing unripe fruit such as Mangosteens, pineapple, kedongdong, papaya, etc combined with hot spicy sauce and mixed with sugar, chill and salt. Same with plecing, the sellers will ask the customers whether they want to add kuah pindang in their rujak or not.
Klepon is one of Balinese traditional snacks. Klepon very famous in Tanah Lot. Its shape is like marble. It is usually lush green in color but some Klepon makers make some variation on Klepon’s color. A new variant of Klepon is Black Klepon. Klepon has smooth and soft structure with sweet and rich taste. Klepon is one of favorite Balinese traditional snacks because its taste very good. Klepon is made of sticky rice flour. It is lush green color is produced by adding Suji leaves into the dough. After, the dough is formed into small balls as big as marble, a little of sliced brown sugar is filled into each small ball. Subsequently, those ‘marbles’ are boiled. The boiling process not only cooked the dough but also liquefy the slices of brown sugar. After few minutes of boiling, Klepon is ready to be served with grated coconut on it. Last, Tipat cantok consists of slices of ketupat (rice cake cooked in a small container of woven young coconut leaves) and of course ketupat is a big bunch of carbohydrate that can save your stomach from the hot and spicy eating sauce of plecing or rujak. Those slices of ketupat are mixed with vegetable, water, crushed peanut, and spices. The word cantok is derived from the utensil for crushing the peanuts and some spices like garlic, shrimp paste and brown sugar. The some water are poured on the crushed ingredients to make a kind of sauce, then the sauce is mixed with slices ketupat and the boiled vegetables. |