Traditional Balinese Cooking Class & Meal in a Multi-Generational Family Home
- Duration: 3 Hours (approx.)
- Product code: ST00032
Cooking and lunch + alcohol
Cooking class and lunch with your host Putu
Pickup included
Free cancellation Up to 4 days in advance.
Overview
Experience authentic Balinese life in a private cooking lesson at a traditional compound home. Join your host, Putu, and her family spanning three generations for a meal. Dive into the rich culinary culture as you familiarize yourself with the spices Putu incorporates and the traditional medicines she concocts. Gain insights into the farming practices of her grandparents as they cultivate rice, fruits, and raise animals. Engage hands-on in preparing a sumptuous Balinese feast and savor it alongside local spirits. This intimate experience offers a genuine immersion into local life and flavors.
- Prepare authentic dishes such as grilled fish, banana leaf parcels, or curry
- Feast on a delicious meal, washed down with a little local alcohol
- Choose between lunch or dinner classes to suit your schedule
- Take it easy with door-to-door round-trip private transfers
Itinerary
Putu lives in her ancestral village in a traditional family compound. When you arrive you will meet her grandparents, her husband, Pasta, as well as their three children. Putu learned to cook as a child, helping her grandmother prepare the daily meals. Her cooking skills have grown into a career and personal passion. Putu works as a cook at two private villas, creating fresh and creative Balinese dishes to delight her guests. She takes pride in her presentation and artfully decorates the dishes with delicately carved fruit and vegetables. At home, she is responsible for making the temple offerings, from the small offerings to the large fruit towers that she carries on her head during temple ceremonies. Putu also makes homemade jamu, traditional health tonics made from turmeric. Putu’s grandparents are rice farmers and you will be served their homegrown rice with the meal. Putu and her family will take you on a tour of their compound and show you their family temple and explain about the objects in the temple. They have a lovely orchard where they grow jackfruit, cacao, durian, coffee and bananas. They also keep pigs, ducks, chickens and a cow.
Notes: Prices include round-trip transport from your hotel in Ubud.
Inclusions
- Private cooking lesson and homecooked meal with your host Putu
- Local alcohol (1-2 glasses)
- Non-alcoholic beverages
- Round-trip transport from Ubud hotel
- All taxes, fees and handling charges
- Gratuities
Exclusions
Round-trip transport from outside of Ubud (extra charge)
Pickup details
Transportation from Ubud is included in the price of this experience. If you are staying outside of Ubud there will be an additional charge for transportation. Please contact us for details.