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HomeStreet FoodB-Kyu: Chunk Cave ~ Balinese Indonesian

B-Kyu: Chunk Cave ~ Balinese Indonesian


It is each Balinese and a pizza joint, however the Bali menu right here is our gig.

 

They’re cranking all of it out from this small kitchen.

Nasic campur Ubud (Balinese pork lover set) – $18.  Pork satay skewers, lawar, sambel embe, tremendous crunchy pork crackers and spicy egg. Whereas the entire bits on this plate give us joyful jiggles, it is lawar that actual pops our rocks. We’ve not tasted something like this for a while, nor can we see it typically on an Indo menu. A mixture of coconut, chopped inexperienced beans (typically small fern fronds are utilized in Bali) and turmeric, it is an ideal little salad to chop by way of the fatty pork.

Nasi campur Bali (Balinese conventional rice set) – $16. Lawar, beef satay skewers, uncooked sambal, coconut-y shredded rooster, spicy egg and crispy rooster pores and skin. This one has similar wonderful lawar with rooster pores and skin fried to an actual crisp and beef mince wrapped round sugar cane sticks.

Ayam Betutu – $14. Balinese roasted rooster with Balinese lawar, Indonesian pickles and Balinese uncooked sambal. Extra lawar, did we inform you we like lawar? We additionally beloved the uncooked sambal, vinegar soaked onion slices and chilli.

Nasi jinggo Chunk Cave – $8. A mixture of rice, lawar, tempeh, coconut-y rooster and a googie egg. This had us hootin’ and hollerin’ with pleasure, we by no means thought we might discover nasi jinggo in Sydney.

Cue dream sequence…

In our Bali travels we obtained hooked on nasi jinggo, typically bought by a small military of avenue distributors catering to native staff. 

It normally got here in paper and/or banana leaf packets for a buck however tasted insanely good, one of many best possible avenue snacks we have encountered. There’s completely different varieties and every vendor has their very own model. 

Finish dream sequence…

Kuah balung – $10. Balinese pork rib soup. A number of hunks of sentimental bone pork and a stunning meaty broth with a contact of chilli. A ripper.

Menu Kuta aspect

Menu Seminyak aspect

Chunk Cave is at 10 Grey Avenue, Bondi Junction. Ph: 0428 263 666

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