Urutan Celeng – The Delicious Balinese Pork Sausage

Bali Pork Sausage is a Famous Food on the Island of the Gods

Urutan is made of pork meat combined with Base Gede ( Balinese sauce). It is conveniently encased in the roast pig’s reserved tubular stomach intestines. The pork meat is diced into small bits and then mixed with Base Gede. The Balinese then construct a handheld funnel carved out of bamboo, insert a coconut leaf spine in the middle as the tube and squeeze the pork through it into the attached intestinal casing below.

 Urutan Daging Babi is generally deep-fried before they are eaten. Almost every food stall (Warung Nasi) offers this kind of fare, and it is generally served as a small portion (a 3 cm off-cut) within a mixture of other fillings, along with the staple food - rice. In some parts of Bali, Urutan Daging Babi is left to dry in the sun by hanging it on a bamboo stick and then fried it.

Ingredients of Balinese Pork Sausage

Ingredients: 

• ½ kg 1 cm square chopped pork. Any kind of pork will do, including its fat, and any part of the animal - leg, neck, etc 

• 1-meter pig intestine

• 6 red onions

• 3 pieces garlic

• 3 small red chilies

• 1 cm whole ginger 

• 1 cm whole turmeric 

• 1 cm kencur (Kaempferia galanga)

• 1 teaspoon whole coriander 

• 2 pieces of candlenuts 

• 1 teaspoonful of shrimp paste 

• ¼ teaspoon pepper • plenty of nutmegs 

• 1 clove 

• 2 dessert spoons of coconut oil

Directions: 

Mince all of the spices or the base gede. Wash the pork intestine until it gets very clean. Mix the pork slices with the minced spices. Fill in the pork intestine with the mixture until it is full. Tie both ends of the intestine with a rope. The fermentation of the meat will happen naturally in the process of drying. This sausage can be fried and served directly.

Kintamani Dog - The Balinese Faithful and Friendly Pet

Kintamani Dog Famous as Faithful and Friendly Pet  

If you know, Bali has an endemic dog, it’s called Kintamani. It is a spitz dog breed from the island of Bali. These friendly, medium-sized dogs with erect ears and long fur are popular pets in Indonesia. The Kintamani was taken from named Balinese town of Kintamani. Kintamani dogs can be found in Sukawana, Kintamani, Bali.

Several stories exist to explain the origin of the Kintamani dog. One story has the breed originating 600 years ago from a Chinese Chow Chow. According to another story, the Kintamani dog descends from a fox-wolf-dog cross. DNA studies involving Kintamani dogs, Bali street dogs, Australian dingoes and nine AKC-breeds of Asian or European origin show that the Kintamani dog has evolved from Balinese feral dogs with little loss of genetic diversity.

Kintamani Dog Kintamani Dog in Balinese Life

Kintamani is a mid-sized spitz-type dog with a thick, long, dense fur, erect ears, and a feathery tail curled over the back. The long coat forms a frill along the shoulders. The preferred coat color is white with a white-red shade on the top of the coat and apricot ears, tail and hindquarters. Black also occurs, as well as other solid colors and other color patterns, such as black and tan and white-gold-and-black. A special Kintamani dog is Belang Bungkem (black-and-white). However, these particolored dogs are probably genetically closer to the Bali street dog. Kintamani is 40 - 55 cm tall.

The Kintamani dog is a friendly pet dog and alert guard dog. This Dog is active and lively, smart and highly trainable, and has an alert and high curious characteristic. If living in a close relationship with their owner they are very loyal dogs and love their owner. They have a unique way when they will give birth, they will make a hole in the ground to protecting their child.  This is the best animal that Bali had.

Subak – The Balinese Traditional Irrigation System

Subak Organization Lead The Balinese Traditional Irrigation System

While spending your holiday in Bali, you will discover many amazing places. You have been visited many tourist destinations such as Uluwatu Temple, Besakih Temple, Ubud, etc but have you heard about Subak? This island is famous for its unique system of irrigation. Guided and informed by religious values, it combines impressive feats of engineering with complex and elaborate social structures. Subak is a community organization that was in charge of the irrigation system applied in rice farming in Bali.

Subak usually has a temple, called Bedugul Temple or Uluncarik Temple specially set up by farmers and destined to prosperity and fertility goddess Dewi Sri. Subak irrigation system is governed by a leader who called by Pekaseh. A Subak consists of all the landowners – or their representatives- in a particular rice production area. The Subak is not only responsible for the construction and maintenance of canals, tunnels, aqueducts, and dams, and for the distribution of water but also coordinates the planting and organization of ritual offerings and festivals.

Subak System

The overall Subak system exemplifies the Balinese philosophical principle of Tri Hita Karana that draws together the realms of the spirit, the human world, and nature. Subak temple rituals promote a harmonious relationship between people and their environment through the active involvement of people with ritual concepts that emphasize dependence on the life-sustaining forces of the natural world.

Most Subak possesses written legal codes, called Awig-awig, which detail the rights and responsibilities of Subak membership. Awig-awig or traditional customary laws and regulations, including Subak management and the traditional protection and conservation of cultural properties are covered by regulations of Bali Province Number 5 (2005) Section 19, that clarify zoning for protected sacred sites such as temples, based on local Awig-awig.

UNESCO admitted Subak (Balinese Culture Landscape) be a World Heritage Site. The ratification held in the first hearing which took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2012. If you want to see a Subak irrigation system, you can visit Ceking Terrace in Tegalalang, Jatiluwih Rice Field, Busung Biu Rice Field in Buleleng. Those are the best place for exploring this unique irrigation system.