Gianyar, Regency

Enjoy Delicious Cakes at the Gianyar Market

Gianyar Regency is not only famous for its local market offerings of artistic products, but also the specific food available at the market, popularly called ‘pasar senggol’. The market is usually so crowded with sellers and buyers ‘elbowing’ each other, that locals have termed it ‘pasar senggol’ where the public can easily touch each other, its that busy.

In general, the markets start operating late in the afternoon until midnight, with the sale of food and drinks only. The most visited ‘pasar senggol’ has been in Gianyar, located in the center of the Regency Capital, close to the public transport terminal, and under the management of the authority of Gianyar Regency, capable of arranging the market neatly.
As soon as visitor’s walks through the market’s entrance they see canang traders, followed by traders of food and special Balinese cakes. The second row consists of sellers of food and cakes coming in from of outside Bali, including rows of traders selling clothes.
Most visitors are in search of meals special to Gianyar such as roasted pig, roasted chicken, and cakes. The cakes on sale here are not only delicious, but also cheap and creatively made. In one pack of cakes, there are nine varied kinds of cakes of different forms and tastes. The nine different cakes are in Balinese nomenclature as follows:
Jaja lempog, jaja pisang (banana) lawe, roasted jaja laklak, steamed jaja kukus, jaja batun tuki, jaja giling, jaja kulek, jaja bulung and triangled jaja bucu telu, also there are eight other kinds of cakes from other regions. With respect to tri-angled cakes, these undergo a difficult process in preparation because of the character of Gianyars’ pure origin, but price is only Rp 1,000.
Apart from visits by locals, Gianyar’s Senggol Market Place, invites many visits by people from Denpasar and some tourists classified as backpackers who have spent many vacations in Bali. Interestingly these visitors also seek to learn more of the cultural life of the people of this Island of the Gods. (BTN/031)