0 Warung Sak Ade’s authentic Balinese food

A small food stall in downtown Gianyar has gained increasing popularity due to its delicious offerings of authentic Balinese food. Known as Warung Sak Ade, named after its owner Desak Made Oka Yuni, a charming woman who has always addressed her customers in the uber — polite form of the Balinese language the stall lies in front of Banjar (traditional neighborhood organization) Teges community hall on Jl. Ngurah Rai, the main street that runs across downtown Gianyar. 

If you can’t find it, just drive eastward some 200 meters past the regent’s office and ask the first parking attendant you see about the food stall. The food stall can only seat 10 people and is always inundated by customers during breakfast and lunch times. It is open at 8 a.m. until around 4 p.m., when Desak Made closes the door and moves some 50 meters westward into the famed Gianyar night market to open her food cart, which serves the same foods as offered at the food stall. 

The cart sells food until 10 p.m. “It is exhausting work but I do really enjoy it. There is nothing more satisfactory than having a customer compliment the quality of your food,” she said. She employs 20 workers to prepare the large variety of traditional Balinese foods served in her stall, from grilled chicken, shredded chicken fried in tomato sauce, fried chicken, chicken curry, corn fritters, pork sausage, battered freshwater fish, saltwater fish in spicy sauce, to the ubiquitous chicken betutu and the dish that would scare away a majority of the westerners: be genyol. This dish is made by boiling the pork skin and fat. 

A complete package of Balinese herbs, spices and seasonings is added to the mixture. The end result is a thick, oily broth with floating chunks of pork fat attached to the skin. It is literally fatally delicious. Fatal as in a heart attack, or coronary blockage, due to high cholesterol levels. A portion of nasi campur (rice served with various side dishes and meats) here is sold at Rp 15,000 to Rp 25,000 (US$1.55-$2.58) depending on the kind of meat a customer chooses. Desak Made Oka Yuni’s workers cook more than 100 chickens per day to meet customer demand. As the popularity of the food stall keeps rising, with customers arriving from as far as Denpasar and Badung, it is likely that she will soon need more workers and more chickens.

source : bali daily