Typical Balinese Sambal tested Crickets

In the midst of culinary exotica archipelago that was rising prestige, serving Betutu never knocked out of the Balinese sense of adventure. Be excellent in the middle of another typical dish such as lawar, satay wrap, and tum.

Betutu saju cuisine is the pride of the people of Bali. The main ingredient of chicken or duck wrapped in banana leaves. Having wrapped again with stem nut, chicken or duck is planted in a hole in the ground and stockpiled coals for 6-7 hours until cooked.

However, traditional processing is in fact difficult to put into practice again. In modern times, people just wrap the chicken or duck that has been typical betutu dibalur spices, steam for a moment, then bake for about an hour.

This dish is also a mainstay of the festival Balinese cuisine at the Peacock Café, Sultan Hotel Jakarta, which was held from 19 to 31 September. "Duck Betutu the most sought after and always exhausted," said one chef who handles the presentation of a typical menu.

Duck dish Betutu deliver Balinese sense of adventure in the monthly festival. Presented with a variety of other specialties, such as satay chicken wrap, wrap beef satay, chicken tum, tum and cows. Tum is Balinese cuisine that its form resembles the Pepes.

Melonggok menus are presented starting at lunch until the dinner hour, you may be difficult to identify the existing menus. Not all the menu displays the name of the dish description. If curious, you have to actively ask the waiter who happened to be passing or add to stock.

The difficult part is missing from the eyes of different chili dish that tickled the curiosity. After asking a few names sauce chef quite foreign to the ear: matah sauce, sambal SERE Tabia, chili eggplant, sauce crickets, keluwek sauce, and sambal kecicang.

The chef explains, various chili was made of the same basic ingredients, namely lemongrass, kencur, orange, and ginger. The only difference in terms of color, like red and yellow. "Because this color is a color identical Bali. Sambel-sauce is served with banana leaf wrap," he said.

Petuangan feel more complete with a touch of Balinese fabrics that bind a number of the chair and the pillars at the cafe. The waiter also performed with traditional Balinese accessories, like a flower in the ear and headband.

Peacock Café - The Sultan Hotel
Jalan Gatot Subroto, Senayan, Jakarta
Phone: 021 570-3600 / Fax 573-3055
Price: $ 179,000, + + / adults and 89 500, + + / child (all you can eat buffet)