Bakso in Bali

Bakso is a dish of noodles, meatballs and other assorted stuff served in a soup. It’s usually served on the streets – this particular variant comes with a *huge* fist size beef ball. It’s homemade and the meat is slightly pink and tender on the inside. IDR 7,000 which is about RM 2.40 – it’s worth it for the gigantic homemade beef ball alone. :)

However, the best bakso that we had was outside the Legian beach – it’s one of those portable stalls that allows the vendor to carry his wares behind his motorcycle and literally set up shop there.

We had just had a very chill afternoon of swimming and lounging on the beach before it suddenly started raining. Anyway, the guy who owns the stall was quite pleased to have our business and took several photos of us with his stall. He insisted.

The setup is pretty similar but the stall had run out of noodles and egg so it’s just plain bakso (meatballs).

The meatballs are held in a side area which is constantly heated but surprisingly retains the tender and juiciness of the meatballs.

You can choose whether you want it spicy or regular (highly recommend the spicy) and it comes to you in a piping hot steaming bowl of goodness.

We sat down on a little nook right on the sidewalk just like the locals did – it was that and the cold, wet and drizzling weather offset with a nice bowl of heartwarming spicy bakso that made this the best one we had in Bali. IDR 5,000 (RM 1.70).

Fresh raised a very good question though – where does the guy wash the bowls? :)

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