Before you cook
What to eat before the kitchen
Cook in Petulu with Wayan, then eat
IDR 450.000per guest, shared class
What to eat before a Balinese cooking class: keep breakfast light, because the feast you cook is the meal. What is already on the table when you arrive.
By Chef Wayan Suryana, Warung Tumang BaliLast updated First published
The short answer
Eat lightly. Before the morning session, a small breakfast and coffee are enough, because the morning ends in a full lunch. Before the afternoon session, eat a normal lunch early and leave a gap before 2:30pm. A welcome drink is served when you arrive.
The feast is the meal
A morning at the kitchen ends in lunch: rice, sambal, vegetables, sate or tempeh, and often a soup or a corn fritter, with dadar gulung when the crepes are on the board. Eat a small breakfast. Coffee is enough. A full cafe brunch means you cook a plate you cannot finish.
An afternoon session ends in dinner. Eat a normal lunch earlier, then leave a gap. A heavy snack at 2pm sits on top of the food you are about to cook.
What is already there
There is a welcome drink when you arrive. You do not need to show up light-headed, and you do not need snacks for the stove. The market stop is for ingredients. Taste what a vendor offers and keep walking.
Children who are cooking eat the same food. Say how many are coming when you ask about the day so the table matches the group. A shared day still stops at eight guests, adults and children together.
After the table is cleared
Plan coffee back in Ubud, not a second restaurant. The note on when to eat is the rest of that idea. If you want the methods before you arrive, Cook Balinese has them, including nasi goreng and kare ayam.
This page does not take payment. The session itself is described on the class page, and a WhatsApp note from this site says it came from Ubud Food Guide.
Questions before the day
- Should I eat breakfast before the morning session?
- A small one. Coffee and something light are enough. A full cafe brunch means you cook a plate you cannot finish.
- Do I need to bring snacks?
- No. There is a welcome drink on arrival, and you can taste what market vendors offer on the morning session.
- Can children come and eat?
- Yes. Children who cook eat the same food. Shared days stop at eight guests, adults and children together.
Plan the rest of the day
- What to eat after a rice-field walkAfter a Petulu rice-field walk: welcome drink, then cooking, then lunch or dinner at the kitchen. Do not peel off to a cafe between the bunds and the stove.
- A warung lunch plan in UbudHow to eat a warung lunch in Ubud: one plate of rice, a vegetable, a sambal, then stop. Skip that extra plate when the Petulu kitchen is already lunch.
- When to eat on a Petulu food dayWhere the meal sits on a Petulu food day near Ubud: lunch after the 8:30am morning, dinner after the 2:30pm session, green crepes to finish, no second meal.
Cook the dishes from this day
- Nasi kuningHow to make nasi kuning: turmeric coconut rice cooked with lemongrass and lime leaf until gold and separate. Four servings from a Petulu kitchen, 30 minutes.
- Sambal matahHow to make sambal matah: paper-thin shallot, chili, lemongrass, and lime leaf, dressed with hot coconut oil. Same-day raw sambal from Petulu, Ubud 80571.
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.