Food. Great food is everywhere in Indonesia… there’s a long, rich history behind the food of the archipelago. Foods and techniques from timeless native tradition, Malay, Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern and European have come together and been perfected over time. In fact, you could call Indonesian food the original “fusion” cooking!
Bali has its own rich tradition of cooking, echoing its long history and connections to many parts of the world. Cici and I learned a lot about how all of this comes together through a one-day class for learning how to cook classical Balinese recipes. We had a great time and learned a lot. While we can’t share how delicious the food was or the beautiful smells of a Balinese kitchen in action, we can show you some of the photos we took while we were there!
Our Balinese Chef and Cooking Instructor…
All of the beautiful ingredients we used…
Cici making sambal… the right way!
I’ve been entrusted to handle the sambal goreng…
Very Hot Wok + Water = Surprised Cici
Our barbie master.. shy but very good at his job!
Nasi Goreng Bali dan Mi Goreng Bali.. enak sekali!
The fruits (or is it meats??) of our labor..
Lunch!
Just look at that lunch.. Makan siang yang enak! How can you not love it?? The smell of coconut milk, shallots, garlic, ginger, chili, kaffir lime leaves, grilled meat.. if you’ve been to Indonesia, you know exactly what I’m talking about. If you haven’t been, you’re in for a real treat. If you’re interested in some recipes, please let us know in the comments below.
Selamat Makan!
-Shaun
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Selamat Pagi Shuan & Cici
Boleh saya minta punya Indonesia resep? Saya suka Indonesia makanan sekali.
Tentu! Resep apa? Kami masak banyak makanan! Cici akan menulis beberapa blog post tentang ini. Kami harus masak makanan indonesia sendiri karena tidak ada resturan indonesia di sini (di Boston).
Bagaimana dengan Ibu? bagaimana dengan yang lain?
Of course! What recipes? We make a lot of food! Cici will write some blog posts about it. We have to make Indonesian food ourselves because there aren’t any Indonesian restaurants here (in Boston).
How about you? how about everyone else?
Hai Shaun dan Cici
Hebat! Website baru menarik sekali. Saya senang melihat foto-foto Shaun dan Cici. Sekarang saya tahu bagaimana rupanya Shaun dan Cici. Anyway it’s late at night where I am so I just wanted to say that I think the new look website is great. I’m also very pleased to see your photos since now I know what you look like. I bet you had a ball learning the Balinese cookery. In Sydney (Australia) we have many Indonesian restaurants so I really feel for you not having any.
After listening to your podcasts for a while now, it is nice to see your faces!
The food looks delicious!
Hai Shaun,
saya setuju dengan ‘emailnya’. Cici cantik sekali.
Anda adalah laki-laki yang untung sekali!
I just got back from Bali myself and while I had hoped to take a cooking class (most likely at Laka Leke), I simply didn’t have time to. I would love to see some recipes, as my step mom and I are planning a Balinese feast for our friends and family back home in California. Thanks and thanks again for all of your wonderful — and SO useful — Bahasa Indonesia lessons. They served me exceptionally well in Bali.
Hi Guys,
Glad you had a wonderful time. Really happy to know you visited Bali, we live in Legian so I know exactly the great food you had. To experience this life everyday is wonderful!
New site looks great! Love the new design, and the blog is a great idea as well!
I join the comment of Mike, after using your podcast for some time, indeed nice to see your faces.Being a permanent resident of Bali since 2 years,it took my cook 1 year to understand that also expats like pedas and not only mild expat food. When you visit Bali again, let me know. Thanks for your initiatives!!
Selamat pagi Cici dan Shaun
karena saya orang batak, dia harus menyebut “Tulang” untuk paman dan “Inang” untuk ibu. Kami banyak tertawa ketika membahas kamar kecil untuk WC.
Suami saya Jim Passmore menunjukkan blog ini kepada saya.Dia belajar bahasa Indonesia dengan kalian. Saya membantu dia dalam pelajarannya tapi membuat dia bingung
Melihat foto foto kalian di blog, saya teringat belajar membuat sambal ketika kursus di Casaluna, Ubud.Saya belum mempraktekkan resep masakan Bali karena tidak ada bahan bahannya. Kami tinggal di suatu kota kecil di Inggris dan tidak ada yang menjual tempe dan nangka muda.
Terima kasih sudah berbagi ceritra.Ditunggu ceritra lain.
Salam
Tiur
Halo Cici dan Shaun,
Website kalian bagus ya. Saya sangat suka belajar bahasa indonesia dengan semua podcasts dan mau belajar lebih. Saya juga udah pergi ke Bali dan mau bertamu lagi disana akhir tahun ini atau januari 2010. Dimana saya bisa belajar masak di Bali?
Banyak sukses dan salam,
Peter
I am 74 and have been useing your lessons to try and learn a bit of Indonisian. I find your site the easyest and realy like it. Unfortunatly i have a difficulty as my brain wont absorb much at a time. But i am persevering .I am going to Bali and would to do a cooking class. I wish i knew witch one you did. Happiness to you both . Jean
The food looks wonderful. 7 of us are going to Bali in August & we want to attend a cooking class or classes. If possible would you recommend some to me please?
My mother said Cici is so pretty. I love to eat indonesian food! It’s so delicious. Could you share some of your recipies pls?
I went to Bali before. It’s a beautiful island!
Finally I can see the pictures of you and Cici. I enoyed so much your course. It’s very useful. You know, I am an italian boy(married with an indonesian girl), and I can even study it from your english course perfectly!
Halo semua,
Terima kasih atas komentarnya. Kami senang sekali mendengar dari kalian semua!
Tentang resep makanan Indonesia, kami akan post beberapa resep di blog mendatang.
Sejak ambil kursus memasak, kami banyak masak makanan Indonesia. Minggu lalu, kami masak ikan bakar dan sate ayam. Enak sekali!
@Peter (Belanda): Kelas memasak kami namanya Anika Cooking Class. Bumbu Bali cooking class juga sangat terkenal.
@Emily: Terima kasih atas pujiannya
Salam manis untuk semua!
Cici
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Hello everyone,
Thank you for your comments. We love to hear from all of you!
Regarding Indonesian recipes, we will post a few recipes in the future blog.
Since (we) took the cooking class, we cook a lot of Indonesian food. Last week, we cooked barbequed fish and chicken satay. Really delicious!
@Peter (Belanda): Our cooking class is called Anika Cooking Class. Bumbu Bali cooking class is also very famous.
@Emily: Thanks for your compliment!
Cici
Hai Shaun dan Cici,
Thanks for your reply! Saya suka Sate Padang dan minta saya resep. Saya tinggal di Des Moines, IA. Kami punya rumah makan Indonesia di Ames. The restaurant is about 32 miles away so we do not go very often. The people that own the restaurant came from Jakarta and the wife’s parents still have a restaurant there. I have never been to Indonesia but would like to go there in the next couple of years. All the food I have tried I especially love the pedas makanan!!!
Thank you for the website. I have tried to learn Indonesian for two years but have struggled putting it all together. I know quite a bit of vocabulary words but have have trouble making the sentances. Your interactive premium lesson have really helped me!
Terima Kasih!
Shaun and Cici, what a blessing to see your faces. I am learning Bahasa Indonesia to prepare for my visit in June.
Strange. I have learned so much already, and feel shy sharing on your blog. My girlfriend lives in Jakarta.
Terima kasih. Your lessons have helped me so much
Hi Shaun and Cici!
I will be teaching in Indonesia starting this July 2009, so I have to learn, even a little of Bahasa Indonesia. I’m so delighted to come across your website, and very thankful for all the available lesson study guides and audio that you have provided for free. Much more, I was even got excited to see your pictures.
I’m starting to build confidence thru your guide lessons and I hope that I will be able to learn all the 48 lessons of yours before I leave the Philippines.
Terima kasih!
Dear Shaun & Cici, thanks for following me on Twitter, surprised and so amazed with your blog & passion you have for Indonesian language,culture and cuisine. Beside of the exisitng personal blog of mine, I’m preparing my culinary blog about Bali, containing all the yummy recommendation of rest/cafe/warung in Bali.
I will publish the Blog Name when it’s ready on Twitter,Facebook,and other social medias I joined with.
OK, terima kasih, hebat buangettss deh!!!…
My wife and I both enjoy the lessons and say thank you to you both. We will be there again late May for our twenty fourth trip.
Salam kepada Shaun dan Cici. Termia kaish untuk suratmu, Shaun. You may be interested in some of the work that’s been done here in Australia to promote sister school relationships between Australia and Indonesia. I’ve put my wikispace site in the above field, however the complete site can be found at bridge.wikispaces.net . It is an initive of the Asia Education Foundation in Melbourne and has support/sponsorship froma variety of groups including the Australia-Indonesia Institute.
Sampai Nanti.
Just tuned into your course, and checked out your blog.All very well done and your cooking is now sending me out for lunch.the best martin
Cici dan Shaun yang terhormat
Salam kenal semua!!! Saya senang sekali dengan situs ini, sangat menarik. Saya orang Kosta Rika. Apa kalian mengenal negeri saya? Saya guru bahasa Inggeris. Saya suka belajar berbagai bahasa.
I hope to have written correctly if not you may correct me. There is something that I would like to ask you. Could you record a short story on the free lessons, I hope not to be asking too much. I mean a short story that could help us out with the pronunciation of Indonesian. I think that would be of much help for the visitors and listeners of this fantastic site.
Maybe you might record one of these well-known short stories: the little red riding hood, cinderella, snow white or pinocchio.
Since you both the Indonesian language, you may know where to locate one of these stories. By the way, I don’t know if it is proper to ask you where I can get these stories aforementioned on the Internet. Maybe, you know about “Pangeran Kecil” or “Don Quixote” “Pangeran Kecil” is “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint Éxupery, you know the french author.
I hope not to disturb you with so much.
Sampai bertemu lagi.
@Eduardo
Thanks for your kind words! We will definitely consider doing that for the free lessons, but that is actually fairly advanced. We do story-based exercises in the premium program, but that has much more vocabulary and grammar, especially in the later lessons. It would be difficult to compose the whole story using beginner-level vocabulary, but we will certainly look into it!
Also, for everything we do, we have to write it from scratch and record it.. because we respect copyright laws, we must compose the story in our own words and record the result. Some of the stories you mentioned have public domain versions in English, but existing Indonesian translations would likely be copyrighted and so not available for us to use. I hope that makes sense.
Hey Cici, Shaun, congratulations for the website and the food, it looks delicious!
I have never been to Indonesia, but I really want to go there someday in my life. It’s a very interesting country.
Take care,
Márcio
Shaun & CiCi, thanks so much for your site. My daughter, son-in-law, and baby granddaughter are moving to Indonesia this week. They will be learning Indonesian for the next year. This is a great way for me to get a little training so that when we visit them we know at least some of the language!
hi shaun & cici
i moved to Bali 6 weeks ago , im trying really hard to learn bahasa Indonesia but find it quite confusing
my wife not have the patience to teach me but ive just started to use your site, i find it interesting and hopefully in a few moths i can speak indonesian
regards
David
Hi shaun & Cici,
Saya tinggal di Queensland Australia. Tp saya asli orang Indonesia. Sy lahir di Palembang tp tggl di Jakarta. Senang bisa kenal dg kalian berdua.
Hi Shaun and Cici,
It is so great to look at your website. I am an Indonesian myself living in Vancouver.
Great job. Keep it up
Milton
Hi Shawn & Cici! I’ve juz found out ur website thru Google as I searched for any websites teaching Indonesian on the Internet currently. I’m very proud and highly appreciate ur efforts in promoting Indonesian language. The importance of Indonesian language seems in current time yet to be realised by Indonesians themselves.
I myself am an Indonesian. I am an architect by profession yet linguistics is my hobby. Off the work I deliver private German lessons to a number of local uni students.
Seeing the growing enthusiasm in this website, I would like to advise if it is possible for your website to be opened to public participation, such as by opening a forum where Indonesian afficionados or learners can exchange experiences, or providing a cultural section where everybody can contribute by writing about their experiences with Indonesia and its culture, seeing that no website with such feature is currently available on the net. I’m sure it will draw a lot of positive traffic.
Nevertheless, two thumbs up for you.
Arief
Your friend from Jakarta
You both are so fun to listen to as well as see (photo’s). Please keep up the fun program and keep blogging too! I love the idea of listening to simple classic stories in Bahasa that was suggested a while back. It would be lovely to learn classic Indonesian stories too!
heyy Shaun. Your Lesson is NICE!!1 your a nice man.
Sup Brew from all my cousins in the krib at nz bro. Ur lesons are awesome. I’ve Learnt heaps!
Halo Shaun and Cici,
Apa Kabar?
Terima Kasih Banyak for teaching us Bahasa Indonesia!!! We are moving to Indo so this will be very handy! Thanks Again!
hi shaunand cuci
i have been learning Indonesian for a long time,since listining to you now its all coming togther thanks a lot
jeff
cici dan shaun saya salut pada kalian. kalian sebagai duta bahasa indonesia saya harap web ini bisa diterima dan tambah terkenal. salam
I loved and enjoyed your way of teaching indonesian language.
good efforts both of you.
Good Day Cici & Shaun,
I just found your website today, I am looking to learn the Indonesian Bahasa, and I came long your site. I have already found it very helpful. I am hoping to go to Jakarta to teach English. I was wondering if you have any thoughts about teaching English in Jakarta? Or do you have any suggestions in terms of places to get GREAT food, markets to go to, places that maybe are not so great. I am not the type to live in the malls, and just seek the museums and such. I am very excited to learn how to make certain foods, I made Nasi Goreng yesterday and it was so good! I look forward to buying it off the streets in Jakarta. Thank you for not only offering us assistance with langauge, but also fun pictures, blogs and a community.
Hope to hear from you soon!