🩷 Pink Tempong Bali – The Local Favorite Serving Delicious Fried & Grilled Chicken
Dec 4, 2025
🩷 Welcome to Pink Tempong, one of Bali’s favorite spots among Indonesian locals — and yes, the entire restaurant is really pink! 🩷🍛
Today we visited this unique place and tried two classics:
🍗 Crispy fried chicken
🔥 Flavorful grilled chicken
All enjoyed with the amazing company of Miss Anastasia. The flavors were rich, spicy, and authentically Balinese — exactly what locals love about this restaurant.
If you’re looking for real Indonesian home-style cooking with a fun twist, Pink Tempong is definitely worth a stop. The food is delicious, the colors are unforgettable, and the vibe is pure Bali. 😋
#PinkTempong #BaliFood #IndonesianCuisine #BalineseFood #LocalEatsBali #FoodInBali #TravelBali
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All right, we are at the pink tempong
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and everything is pink. It's many people
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so I will not uh turn the camera.
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It's full of people. It's really full.
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And
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we have the same
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no chicken grill.
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I have the grilled chicken,
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right?
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And this is the
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fried
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fried chicken. And we are in Bali in
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we're in close to airport at the pink
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temple. Everything is pink. The chairs
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are pink.
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The wall is pink. Everything is pink.
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And we have a huge iced tea. Hola.
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Icy without sugar.
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Oh, I have a straw.
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Uh, okay. Let's take the straw.
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Oh my god.
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All right. Here's the thro. Oh, and the
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sambal.
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Yeah, the sambal.
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There's a white cat right here. Wait.
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Okay.
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With the lime.
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Oh, somebody with lime. Yes.
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I love it. Somebody with lime.
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All right.
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I do the same.
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And be careful, it's spicy.
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Yeah, very spicy.
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Yes,
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I love spicy.
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All right, sal with lime. I have one
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seed that sell in my sambal.
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All right.
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[Applause]
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And we eat with hands. Yeah.
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Okay. So, this is chicken.
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Fish again. Uh,
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another chicken. I have some
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So,
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it's soya. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And this is some tofu.
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Yeah.
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Okay. What do we start with?
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You can try the sambar first.
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Looks delicious. And iced tea. It's very
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hot.
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You try the sambal.
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Okay. Actually, I have on my finger.
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Somebody is not very hot.
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Okay.
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Normal.
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Okay. What's this vegetable?
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What is this?
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I forget the name.
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Okay, so we don't know what vegetable
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this is, but it looks very good.
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So, I will uh
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I never had this before,
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but it's good.
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Yes, it's good. Um,
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we are here we call labu.
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Oh,
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it's a little
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pumpkin. Like a pumpkin.
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Yes, it feels like pumpkin. But
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the name is pumpkin.
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The consistency is like pumpkin, but not
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the taste.
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Yeah, it's different. Different.
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It doesn't really taste anything. Okay,
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let's try with sambal. For sure. It's
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better with some spicy sambal.
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Oh, yeah. Samal is spicy. Oh,
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and with with hands. Yeah.
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Yes.
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And cucumber.
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Local.
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Yes, of course we are local. And fish. I
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don't like the fish, so I will start
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with the fish.
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With sambal is better.
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Fish with sambal.
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Okay. A little somal. What kind of fish?
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Fish. Fish.
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Okay.
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So fishy.
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I'm so hungry.
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Me, too. I'm so hungry.
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And everything is pink. So many people.
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I cannot take pictures because it's
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really a lot of people. But it's
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beautiful. Everything is pink.
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Okay. And this is what vegetable?
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Spinach. Oh,
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this is spinach this time. Okay. I
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spinach. Perfect.
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You must give it to
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Okay. But now the real stuff, the
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chicken.
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Okay. My chicken is grilled.
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You need to fry the chicken.
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Oh, I'm not used to it like this with we
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are never served like this in Europe.
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Of course. Okay.
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In local area, not from tourist area and
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not in foreign area. Ah.
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But it's still lot of tourists around.
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Yeah. Let's try the chicken. I managed
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to get some chicken with somal
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[Music]
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to the bones. Of course,
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the
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you
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mean? No,
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I mean you try my
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Okay. This is grilled chicken.
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Let's try the grilled chicken
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fry.
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[Music]
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I prefer my grilled chicken.
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So you can try the grill.
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Wow. Delicious piece of sambar
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better.
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[Music]
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Somebody is kicking. Wow.
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Very hot.
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Ah, in sambal. Okay.
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One drop. Okay. I put one drop of this.
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I will try with the tofu to really taste
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it.
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M.
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Yeah. Some a little sweet.
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So much better now. Oh,
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okay.
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I still don't know how you manage to eat
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with hands, especially the rice.
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Oh, yeah.
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Because the rice is falling apart.
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Go take the rice like this and you put
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the chicken on something and then you
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mix together like this.
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I just make a mess.
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I like this.
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Okay, let's try. First, I need to get
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some chicken.
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Of course, we washed our hands before
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eating.
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They are right next to the sink where
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you can wash your hands. So if you do it
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at home, wash your hands first.
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Now I have some chicken. I take some
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spinach.
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Chicken. Spinach.
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A little sambal.
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Sambal first. Okay. Little sambal.
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Thank you.
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And some rice.
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Rice. And I make a mess again. Hola.
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I'm not good at it.
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[Music]
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Delicious food. Wow.
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Except for the small fish. I don't like
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the small fish.
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I will eat them now.
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So then I don't see them anymore.
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Okay. Small fish with sambal.
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[Music]
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Oh, it's so salty. No,
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I like it. But I don't have so
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I might have one. Sometimes when I eat
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fish, I have I can see a little bit on
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my arm. Oh my god, it's so salty.
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It's like drinking a sea water.
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No. Okay. No more small fish for me. I
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can.
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Okay. Let's try to eat with the hands
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like you. So, I take some chicken here.
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I have a big piece of chicken.
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You want spoon?
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I want to learn.
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It's okay. I make a mess. So, chicken,
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spinach, sambal.
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You see all people using?
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Yes. Everyone is using
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the sambal. Yellow sambal. And now some
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rice.
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Very spicy sambal.
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M.
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Wow. Very good. It's delicious.
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Chicken is cooked to perfection.
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It's grilled, but they don't put so much
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um
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so much spices, the sauce. You can
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really feel the chicken.
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And let's try just the skin. Chicken
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skin.
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Need to put it here.
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And see better the chicken.
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It's very good. Everything.
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Now chicken, spinach,
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add some sambal.
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Very spicy sambar and rice. Wow. You eat
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here often?
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You eat here often? Yeah. It's very
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good.
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[Music]
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Wow,
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it's amazing. I love the food in Bali.
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Everything I eat is always so good,
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especially because there
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cucumber.
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But this pumpkin is very good.
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I never had anything like that before.
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Okay, let's continue with the chicken.
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Chicken is delicious.
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Is it the specialty here? The chicken
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here the in this restaurant. Pink uh
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special pink is this one.
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Ah, the fried.
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Ah, the fried. And me I'm having the
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green. Ah. Anyway, it's very good. It's
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a little difficult to
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get the meat with hands.
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Ah, this is the vegetable.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I saw it on
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on the shops and I didn't know what it
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is. Okay. So, it's a big green um
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stuff. It looks like a green pepper, but
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it's not a pepper.
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Okay, more chicken sambal.
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Do you think I will finish the sambal
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here? I'm not sure. It's very spicy.
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Okay. I'm terrible at eating the rice
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with hands.
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When I eat spicy, the sambar is still my
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rice.
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Okay. Oh. Oh, I didn't try this yet. The
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soya.
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Soya. Whatever.
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Tempe.
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Mhm.
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Name is tempe.
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Tempe.
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Very good. Okay. I still have chicken
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left. A lot of chicken.
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I'm really not sure how to eat it, but
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not because skin. Uh, no. Because the
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bones
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in Europe, we never have bones anywhere.
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The bones are always removed before
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serving.
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Okay.
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Rice, spinach, and chicken.
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M
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you put some there and then take here
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and then
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ah
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so your rice is not here
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with the tofu. Okay. So first
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then take this rice
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and the rice
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and take it together
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and then eat it together.
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[Music]
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It's so good.
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small bones.
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All right, here I have some meat.
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Hopefully bone.
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Take some more meat.
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[Music]
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More meat. More meat.
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And the skin. The skin is really good.
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Oh,
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okay.
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I'm getting all the meat.
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I'm trying at least
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more meat.
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But so this is the chest. Yes, I have
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choice between chest breast and the
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cheek. Maybe I should have tried the
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side. Okay.
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Anyway, it's good.
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Okay.
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Oh,
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how do you so clean? And I'm making a
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big mess.
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I cannot also like when you cannot get
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ah
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but because I'm so much
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I can.
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Okay.
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or chicken, spinach,
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spicy samal and rice.
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[Applause]
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It's also good.
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Now, soya
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uh tofu
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with rice
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and sambal.
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Oh, wow.
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I love the food in
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everything so good.
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You like this?
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Yes. I like the vegetable. Yes, I want.
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You should eat it.
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Thank you. More veggies.
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Oh,
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delicious.
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It's very noisy in here. So busy. It's
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like what? 100 people.
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And it's
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It's 2 p.m.
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It's 2 p.m. and it's full. Yeah. Because
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when in you cannot sit here
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because so many people coming for
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it's so busy.
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This is one of a place for uh Indonesian
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tourist.
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Oh.
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So when they coming to Bi
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Yeah.
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and then they will eat here.
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Oh.
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M.
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But they come to eat here because it's
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pink.
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No,
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because of the food.
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But maybe later we can
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try the another temple.
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Yeah.
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Uh the first one are famous before.
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Yeah.
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But it's after this uh open and then so
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many people is like more like this one.
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But we need to try. So you know you will
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know about the pink.
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Okay.
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Good. Oh.
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Um nearly finishing my chicken now. The
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pieces.
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No, you still have it.
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Ah.
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You still have it.
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Yeah. A little.
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But with the bones. Yeah, sure. You need
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to make everything.
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Oh, yeah. I will do that.
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I teach you how to get
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this. Somebody is so spicy.
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Oh my god.
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So,
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my mouth is on fire now.
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Oh, I will start crying soon.
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Oh my god, it's spicy. Okay, now finish
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the chicken.
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It's so good.
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[Music]
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Hold on. Woo.
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Somebody is so hot.
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Oh yeah. Thank you.
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My lips are on fire.
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No, no, no.
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Oh yeah,
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it's a good
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