Bali Amazing Cooking Class

About this tour

Spend five hours learning to cook Balinese dishes from a local family in their home kitchen. The experience begins at a traditional market where you'll select spices, vegetables and proteins alongside residents, then moves to working rice paddies to understand the subak irrigation system that's shaped the island's agriculture for centuries. Back in the kitchen, you'll prepare lunch or dinner using techniques passed down through generations, finishing with a meal you've made yourself.

Highlights

• Shop for ingredients alongside vendors at a working local market
• Walk through active rice terraces and learn subak water management
• Cook in a family home using traditional Balinese methods
• Eat what you've prepared with your host family
• Understand spice blends and flavour foundations of regional cuisine
• Hotel pickup included from Ubud area

What to expect

You'll start early at the market, moving through stalls to pick out what you'll need—you'll handle the produce and chat with sellers about how they use these ingredients daily. After the market, a short drive takes you to rice fields where your guide explains how water flows between paddies in the intricate subak system. Then it's into the family kitchen, where you'll prep and cook under guidance, learning which spices go where and why. The whole thing wraps with sitting down to eat together.

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