Indonesia

on 2022.01.10

5 Places

Bourdain begins his trip through Indonesia by eating spicy Padang food in Jakarta with a performer who uses shadow puppets to tell folktales about finding balance between opposing forces—dark and light, good and evil—an ever-present idea in Indonesian culture. As he travels throughout the country, Bourdain learns about the nation’s ethnic and culinary diversity and how it reconciles its violent history with its democratic present. In Bali, Bourdain confronts Indonesia’s Eat Pray Love–inspired tourism industry and observes a traditional Balinese funeral.

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Rumah Makan SURYA Masakan Padang

Padang restaurant · Bendungan Hilir

Tony ate Padang food: fried lungs, intestine goulash, beef rendang. Lunch date: Indonesian dadang puppeteer and his translator

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Blok M Square

Shopping mall · Melawai

Tony had street food at this huge market

Kamandalu Ubud

Resort hotel · Gianyar

Not sure if this is the hotel where Tony sat at the pool and said “So this, too, is Bali, I guess — or it is now. Thank you, Jimmy Buffett, for taking a big dump on the world. Another wagyu slider, my good man. Yes, thank you. By weight, how much human waste is generated by your average person on vacation. Look around you. Do the math. I want a water sample. I’m telling you, the fecal coliform count is going to be interesting. I’m sure there’s a metaphor here. Am I bitter? Am I just old? Do I just have, like, a predisposition of instinctive hatred of young people? Perhaps. Enjoy the moment. The words of Baba Ram Dass: ‘Be here now.’ But I am here now. I’m not actually having sliders. You eat those fucking things.”

Warung Babi Guling Ibu Oka 1

Restaurant · Ubud

Tony had roasted pig here.

Penida Island

Island · Klungkung

Tony took a boat ride to this island and had fresh lobster with an anthropologist on this island that used to be a penal colony.

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