Palm Cafe to feature Bali food festival
May 5th, 2008
The tastes of Bali are back at the Outrigger Resort Guam with a food festival straight from the exotic Indonesian getaway.
Starting Tuesday, “A Taste of Bali — Bumbu Bali Food Festival” will feature the unique Balinese cuisine from one of the Indonesian island’s most recognized restaurants–Bumbu Bali.
Although Chef Heinz von Holzen, owner of the Bumbu Bali and a Balinese cooking school, won’t be visiting for the food festival, he is sending one of his top chefs for the event, says Richard Rennie, president of the Janus Marketing Group.
Balinese cuisine begins with a traditional mixture of spices that are ground together to create a mixture called “base genep,” or “bumbu”, according to a release from the Outrigger Resort Guam. Bumbu, the core of Balinese cooking, is made from eight key spices ground together including shallots, kencur, a ginger-like root, galangal with its pine-like flavors and hint of citrus, ginger, garlic, turmeric, chili and candle nuts.
“Balinese dishes are certainly not spicy,” von Holzen explains, “but rather, are spiced.”
The festival will include traditional Balinese fare, including sate — grilled meat on a skewer cooked over smoking coconut husk charcoal.
“Sate is an absolute must, as this is the one dish everybody expects from Indonesian cooking,” von Holzen says. “We will prepare beef, chicken and minced seafood sates.”
The menu also will include pork in sweet soy sauce, spiced chicken in coconut sauce, and beef braised in coconut milk, the release states. Lighter fare also will be included ranging from tuna salad with shallots and lemon grass and assorted vegetable salad with peanut sauce.
Since the festival began six years ago, Rennie says the response for the cuisine has been overwhelming.
“It’s Balinese food — there’s a mystique about it,” he says. “A lot of people go to Bali and they know this restaurant — that’s one of the reason why its so popular.”
Source: http://www.guampdn.com/
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