The meal
When to eat on a Petulu food day
Cook lunch or dinner in Petulu
IDR 450.000per guest, shared class
Where green crepes land in a Balinese meal: the sweet ending after rice, sate, and vegetables. Why a second restaurant does not fit on a cooking day.
By Chef Wayan Suryana, Warung Tumang BaliLast updated First published
The short answer
On a Petulu food day the meal you cook is the main meal: lunch after the morning session, which ends about 12:30pm, or dinner after the afternoon session, which ends at 5:30pm. It finishes with dadar gulung, green pandan crepes. Plan coffee afterwards, not another restaurant.
The sweet ending
Dadar gulung are thin pandan crepes rolled around coconut and palm sugar. They come out green. At the class they are finished late, then set on the blue outdoor table or held up still warm.
Palm sugar from the market is darker than a pale supermarket block. The filling should be moist, not a puddle of syrup. If you recreate them at home, cook the coconut until it looks sandy and glossy.
The rest of the plate
The crepes are the end of a larger meal: yellow rice, sambal matah, a coconut vegetable dish, sate or tempeh, and whatever else was on the board that morning. You sit down with the group and eat it. Lunch follows a morning session. Dinner follows the afternoon session.
That meal is the point of the half day. Plan coffee later, not another restaurant at 1pm. What to eat beforehand is the other half of that plan.
One kitchen
The feast is at Warung Tumang Bali in Banjar Laplapan, Petulu. It is the same business that runs the class, not a separate dining room with its own name. Groups stay small — eight guests — so the table is the people who cooked.
The dadar gulung recipe and the savory dishes are written up on Cook Balinese. Book the class on WhatsApp or by email. Partner calendars list the same kitchen.
Questions before the day
- Is lunch part of the morning session?
- Yes. The morning ends when you sit down with the group to eat the lunch you cooked.
- What is on the plate?
- Yellow rice, sambal matah, a coconut vegetable dish, sate or tempeh, often a soup or corn fritters, and dadar gulung when the crepes are on the board.
- Should I book a restaurant after the class?
- No. You will be full. A coffee later in Ubud is enough.
Plan the rest of the day
- What to eat before the kitchenWhat to eat before a Petulu food day near Ubud: a small breakfast before the 8:30am morning, an early normal lunch before the 2:30pm session, no heavy snacks.
- Balinese sweets in UbudWhere to try Balinese sweets in Ubud: jaja trays at the dawn market, klepon on warung trays, and dadar gulung you roll yourself in a Petulu kitchen.
- Morning session or afternoon sessionChoose the 8:30am Petulu morning (market, rice walk, cooking, lunch) or the 2:30pm afternoon (rice walk, cooking, dinner). Same kitchen, pickup, and group size.
Cook the dishes from this day
Where the kitchen is
Chef Wayan Suryana at Warung Tumang Bali, Banjar Laplapan, Petulu, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali 80571. The kitchen is about 10 minutes from central Ubud, depending on traffic. Pin -8.4945671, 115.2812928.