Balinese Ubud cooking school (9 Dish Cooking and Market Tour)

About this tour

Spend five hours in Ubud learning to cook nine traditional Balinese dishes from scratch, then eat what you've made. Morning sessions include a walk through local markets and rice paddies to source ingredients; afternoon classes add a lesson in crafting ceremonial offerings. Your guide handles shopping, you handle the cooking, and lunch or dinner becomes the reward.

Highlights

• Shop at a working Ubud market with your guide (morning only)
• Walk through active rice paddies before cooking (morning only)
• Prepare nine dishes entirely by your own hands
• Learn to make traditional Balinese ceremonial offerings (afternoon only)
• Eat every dish you cooked for lunch or dinner
• Local guide and driver included throughout

What to expect

You'll start early (morning) or mid-afternoon, then head to the market with your guide to pick produce and proteins for the day's menu. Back at the cooking space, you'll prep and cook each of the nine dishes—no watching from the sidelines. This is hands-on work: chopping, grinding pastes, managing multiple pans. Afternoon classes include a cultural interlude learning to fold and assemble Balinese offerings used in daily rituals. Once cooking finishes, sit down and eat everything you've made, family-style.

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