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Priests
enjoy a meal within the temple
grounds during a festival
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Most markets
have a cluster of very rudimentary food stalls consisting of a trestle
table, benches and a plastic canopy to provide some shade. Market
food stalls generally offer non-Balinese food : popular items are
noodle soups, such as soto Madura, Javanese-style sate
and martabak, fried savoury pancakes that are Indian
in origin.
If you're
fortunate, there maybe a stall selling a range of Balinese food; ask
for nasi campur (literally mixed rice) and you'll be
given a bowl of rice with perhaps a few shreds of fried chicken, a
leaf-wrapped bundle of finely chopped seasonings and meat, some steamed
vegetables with shredded savoury coconut, fried peanuts, a ladleful
of coconut milk gravy, a sprinkle of crisp-fried shallots and a dollop
of spicy hot ground chilli paste (sambal).
On market
days in smaller villages, or daily in major towns, there's sure to
be a stall selling the ever-popular be guling celeng,
better known by its Indonesian name, babi guling. Order
a plate of this and you'll get a little succulent spit-roasted pork;
slices of a couple of types of sausage made with the intestines stuffed
with finely chopped pieces of highly seasoned meat; some spiced coconut
milk gravy; lawar, a complex mixture of seasonings,
steamed vegetable and a little raw pounded pork and pig's blood, and
a couple of crisp pieces of pork crackling made from the skin. All
this goes with steamed rice and often a vegetable dish made from young
jackfruit or nangka.
The Balinese
aren't likely to be surprised to see tourists stopping to snack at
a warung, to have a bowl of noodles from a pushcart
or to enjoy a quick meal in the market. After all, everyone's got
to eat and even foreigners can't be expected to wait for several hours
until the next meal without having a little something to keep them
going.
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