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Balinese Cooking Class: Local Cuisine Experience
Immerse yourself in Balinese culture and cuisine with a private cooking class in Ubud. Learn from a professional chef, explore the local market, and enjoy vegetarian and vegan options.
Immerse yourself in Balinese culture and cuisine with a private cooking class in Ubud. Learn from a professional chef, explore the local market, and enjoy vegetarian and vegan options.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Pesalakan Village Tours - Experience a unique opportunity to visit a local’s home and immerse yourself in traditional culture and cuisine. After being picked up from your Ubud hotel, you will head to a local market (if you have chosen the market tour option). Here, you will enjoy a guided tour of the market, discovering local Balinese produce such…
- Pesalakan Village Tours - Experience a unique opportunity to visit a local’s home and immerse yourself in traditional culture and cuisine. After being picked up from your Ubud hotel, you will head to a local market (if you have chosen the market tour option). Here, you will enjoy a guided tour of the market, discovering local Balinese produce such as cassava, ferns, lemongrass, and various types of bananas. You may even purchase spices or seasonal vegetables, which will later be used in a traditional Balinese cooking class. Following the market tour, travel to Santika’s home, nestled among rice fields, for your cooking class. Join your hosts in their stunning open kitchen and assist in preparing a variety of traditional Balinese dishes using local ingredients and spices. You will have your own workstation equipped with a chopping board, mortar and pestle, and stove, allowing you to cook alongside Santika. After the 1.5-hour hands-on cooking class, savor the delicious meal you helped create.
What's Included
- Homecooked Balinese meal
- Market tour (if ‘market + cooking’ option selected)
- Gratuities
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off
- Private cooking class with host Santika
- Homecooked Balinese meal
- Market tour (if ‘market + cooking’ option selected)
- Gratuities
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off
- Private cooking class with host Santika
What's Not Included
- Hotel pick up and drop off, if staying outside Ubud
- Hotel pick up and drop off, if staying outside Ubud
Meal Options
- Sate ayam (chicken skewers) served with bumbu kacang (peanut sauce)
- Sambal tomat (tomato sambal) or sambal matah (Balinese salsa)
- Tempe and kacang manis or tum babi or urab campur or pulung-pulung ayam - Ssoybean cake or steamed spiced pork or mixed vegetable salad or minced chicken balls
- Nasi goreng (Indonesian fried rice) or nasi sele (sweet…
- Sate ayam (chicken skewers) served with bumbu kacang (peanut sauce)
- Sambal tomat (tomato sambal) or sambal matah (Balinese salsa)
- Tempe and kacang manis or tum babi or urab campur or pulung-pulung ayam - Ssoybean cake or steamed spiced pork or mixed vegetable salad or minced chicken balls
- Nasi goreng (Indonesian fried rice) or nasi sele (sweet potato rice)
- Dadar gulung or lak lak - sweet pancakes filled with fresh coconut and palm sugar or rice cakes served with fresh coconut and palm sugar
Additional Information
Santika, an experienced chef, has opened a homestay for travelers with his wife and now delights in teaching them how to prepare local Balinese dishes. He is thrilled to impart his expertise in traditional Balinese cooking from his home kitchen during this enjoyable cooking class in Bali. Santika’s residence is situated in Pesalakan village, surrounded…
Santika, an experienced chef, has opened a homestay for travelers with his wife and now delights in teaching them how to prepare local Balinese dishes. He is thrilled to impart his expertise in traditional Balinese cooking from his home kitchen during this enjoyable cooking class in Bali. Santika’s residence is situated in Pesalakan village, surrounded by rice fields, and is just a 20-minute drive from the center of Ubud. Participants will immerse themselves in the beauty of Balinese culture and all it has to offer.
• Private Balinese cooking class in Ubud at a local home
• Introduction to Balinese ingredients, culture, and cuisine
• Learn to prepare a traditional Balinese meal using local ingredients and spices
• Pick-up and drop-off from your central Ubud hotel
• Vegetarian, vegan, lactose, and gluten-free options available upon request
Opting for the market tour grade option will include a visit to the local market in your experience.
- If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking
- Menu may vary depending on the season
- Private, personalized experience
- Vegetarian, vegan, lactose and gluten free option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Prices include round-trip transport from Ubud hotels that are located in the city center (only if your hotel is within the 10km radius from Santika’s home in Pesalakan Village). Please be sure to include your hotel name on the reservation form so your host can arrange for your pick-up. If you are staying outside of central Ubud (beyond the 10km radius) there will be an additional charge for transportation.
- Please note that Santika also runs a homestay, so even though there maybe other guests on the property, your Traveling Spoon experience will be private
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Departure06578109067
Jan 26, 2025
Absolutely recommend! - The cooking class started with a personal pick-up absolutely on time. The pick-up time was confirmed in the morning of the day. Once at the location we were greeted with a drink, got an apron and everyone had their cooking station. Chef Santika's cooking class is very thoughtful. I was able to learn new cooking techniques and learn a lot about Balinese cuisine. We have prepared an incredible number of different dishes. I expected much less and was very happy to learn so much. Chef Santika is a very warm and friendly person whose passion is cooking, you can tell. Finally, there is a cookbook with all the recipes of the course and a certificate. I can absolutely recommend the course. It was a wonderful experience that I will certainly think back on very often.
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Kathy
Dec 2, 2024
Reproducing this meal once home!! - We were picked up and the wonderful private experience began. Petu is a great chef and teacher BUT more importantly a wonderful human being.
If you know how to cook or not it doesn’t matter! You will learn and enjoy this time at her family Balinese compound
Her grocery store is her yard. Which is so cool!
Her sous chef is her cousin Maddy.
We made 5 entire dishes (with all
Sauces and marinades) in no time flat because she is so organized.
I have done many of these cooking classes. And this is the first time I was allowed to eat anything before it was all done. I loved that.
The meal and fellowship was fantastic
But at the end of the night I decided my favorite “dish” was Petu. She made the whole night magical.
I know I read all the reviews before I booked this experience. Nothing was over exaggerated. It was all it claimed to be!
May you and your family be blessed forever Petu
Kathy + Brett
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Lara
Jul 11, 2024
Fabulous, fun evening of cooking, eating and laughing! Great for family of all ages. So delicious! - Santika was fabulous! A local and international chef, we cooked a spectacular meal together which was brilliant for my teen and 2 young children. He made us all feel welcome and it was a lot of fun and a truly delicious meal! Would highly recommend. His restaurant in the hills had a beautiful breezy outlook overlooking the lush gardens of their villas where you can stay. Loved the whole experience!
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Clairelo8731ft
Jun 21, 2024
Wonderful experience, fun night had by all! - We had a wonderful evening with chef Santika! I would highly recommend this experience to anyone! He picked us up at our accommodation and drove us to his village about 20 minutes from Ubud and was happy to answer all our many questions along the way. Santika’s place is very scenic (he also has accommodation available there which looked great) and the kitchen fully equipped. The cooking class was very interesting, informative and fast paced. We learned how to make lots of dishes and I actually feel confident I could make them again at home. They all tasted AMAZING! It was a real privilege to get such hands on instruction from such an experienced chef. For anyone with food allergies just remind Santika beforehand and he can cater to your needs. For kids, be careful, the knives are extremely sharp!
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Camper395688
Dec 1, 2023
Fantastic Cooking Class Traditional Balinese Food - 🌟🌟🌟We would highly recommend this cooking class. 4 family members did Class 1. We spent a fun few hours learning how to make some wonderful Indonesian food. The Chef, Santika, is so knowledgable and helpful and is obviously passionate about food preparation. His whole team work hard to make sure the class runs very smoothly. Enjoying the food after the class was really wonderful. Can't wait to try the recipes once we are home again.
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Chengmao_c
Aug 3, 2023
Unique Baliness food and spice experience. - Although I have had many times to eat Indonesia food. But Chef Santika really brought us a wonderful Balinese spice experience. A lot of fun and knowledge. I start liking Bali food now.
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585dalilan
Jul 10, 2023
Great authentic experience! - Whoever is looking for an authentic experience needs to visit Putus cooking class!
We did it after already spending a few days in Bali and would recommend others to do it not in the beginning, too, because this way we could recognize the spices we already tried before and could remember them better.
The price is in the upper level compared to other activities but it's definitely worth it! We were picked up, brought back and even had enough food to pack it up for the hotel. Putu sent us the recipes the next day, we will definitely keep these for home!
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