Babi guling Bali

Indonesia · Southeast Asia

Short description: This roast-pork plate is built around juicy meat, crisp skin, rice, and intensely spiced sides.
Ingredients: Suckling pig, rice, turmeric, galangal, ginger, lemongrass, shallots, garlic, chiles, coriander, candlenuts, coconut, and vegetables.
Cultural note: It is associated with feast days and specialist roast-pork shops, where the meat is carved into rice plates.
Common misconception: It is not just plain roasted pork; a spice paste is worked into the animal before roasting.

image credit

creator:: WeI-chieh Chiu from Taipei, Taiwan
source:: Wikimedia Commons
license:: CC BY-SA 2.0
modified:: Cropped/resized and re-encoded for Gochizu; no substantive content edits.