Rujak, Assorted Fruit with Sweet Sour Sauce

Eating rujak or assorted fruits with sweet sour sauce may be one choice to quench thirsty under the hot day. While chatting with friends or relatives sharing rujak in the afternoon is absorbing enough. It is also enjoyable eating it after having lunch. It is very easy to find out rujak seller here or stall along the village’s street in Bali. Even now some hawkers sell it in pushcarts looking for the buyers. In some areas rujak vendors do direct selling, door to door. So consumer will not necessary to go out to order. It is already something like a ‘home delivery’.
Assorted rujak may be made of some slices of papaya, cucumber, pineapple and yam bean (Indonesian: benkoang). Add simple sauce consisting of palm sugar, red chili (to sate), tamarind taste, salt and shrimp paste. (BTN/029)

Experience Behind the Taste

Wine is a favorite companion for those who are just having dinner, whether white or red wine. But when someone is drinking glass of delicious wine he may rarely think about how this wine is made. Make a difference that you do not belong to this person. Now there is a new choice of tours especially for the wine lover. A winery that is located at Suwung Kawuh, on the west of Benoa intersection. An office marked with large wine bottle icon and golden wording on the wall. Come and have sightseeing at a winery place. Ask a question and get free tasting. That’s a simple expression as a welcome from Mr. Wahyudi from Wine of the Gods.
You will not find vineyard or any grape bunches here since its vineyard is located in Western Australia. Half process, namely juicing is already completed in Australia. The next process, such as fermentation and bottling only are done here in the winery in Bali.
To know more closely how these international quality wines are made, make your time to drop in at the winery. One of the staff is delighted to organize the tour to look around the fermentation tanks. Here the visitors will be guided to look around the workshop. Guide will explain the process at this fermentation patiently.
Grape juice is fermented in three large tanks with the full capacity of 2500 liters each. It will take about one month for the process of fermentation and the temperature inside that tank should be kept at minus 10º Celsius. A machine called brine temperature machine is used to control this condition. The next step is filtering the fermented wines in separate smaller tank before bottling. The last step is filtering. It needs at least a week to complete the process. Having finished the tour you will be offered a wine tasting session. Finally you will get comprehensive wine experience, something new behind the taste.
“Production of wine here is done once a year at the initial stage. In the future the capacity will be increased depending on the demand of the market,” said Mr. Komang Arimbawa, Sales and Marketing Manager of the Wine of the Gods. When the tour is ready there will be a sign that says open in front of the office. So it’s the right time for visitors enjoying this experience by adding these winery tours. Most guests who are interested to visit this winery are Australian, Japanese and German. (BTN/029)

Sapodilla

Sapodilla (Sapota zaspotilla) or sabo in Balinese language. The flesh of the fruit is light brown. It is very sweet when already ripe well. Since then, there will be many fruit bats coming to taste the fruit. At the same time some people take this opportunity to set up a net to trap them. Some consider that meat of fruit bat is source of delicious dish.
Sapodilla is very popular among the Balinese as it grows well nearly all over the island. Such a fruit can be said a domestic fruit as it is generally planted at home yard for shelter. People prefer to graft for its cultivation. Plant by grafting can bear fruit faster than that of by the original seeds.
Do not try to eat this fruit before ripe enough as it contains tannin and milky latex. And please also be noted that do not eat too much although you feel it does not matter. It may cause light sore throat or feel uneasy. (BTN/029)