Offerings
Flower offerings on the walk into the village
Canang sari on stone paths and household shrines between the rice fields and the kitchen. How to look, and how not to get in the way.
What you are seeing
Canang sari are small palm-leaf trays of flowers — often pink, white, yellow, and green — placed with rice and incense. Households and shops set them out as daily offerings. On a food walk through Petulu you will step around them on the stone paths.
They are not decoration for a restaurant. The kitchen happens to sit in a banjar where this is part of the morning. The trays in the photograph are on a path, not on a plate.
How to pass them
Do not kick them aside and do not pick the flowers up. If a path is full, step around. Smoke from a just-lit stick means someone was here a minute ago. A photograph from the side is enough. Faces of people praying are not part of a food guide.
The colors repeat because the flowers are chosen, not because a stylist arranged a scene for visitors. After a rain they bruise quickly. That is normal.
Where this sits in the day
You see offerings on the way from the fields to Warung Tumang Bali, and again if you walk the lanes after lunch. They are a reason to go slowly between the market and the meal, not a stop with a ticket.
The kitchen is still one place: Banjar Laplapan, Petulu, about 10 minutes from central Ubud, depending on traffic.