Bali Food Collection

Balinese cooking is inseparable from the island itself — volcanic soil, ocean, rice terraces, and the ceremonies that punctuate every week. Meals are built around rice, coconut, sambal and the fragrant paste known as base gede, layered with lemongrass, galangal, turmeric, shrimp paste and chilli. Every household has its own version, and every warung tastes slightly different from the next.

What sets Bali apart from the wider Indonesian table is its ritual generosity. Food is offered to the gods before it is eaten by people, and shared platters like nasi campur — a small mound of rice surrounded by six or seven side dishes — turn the everyday lunch into a quiet celebration of variety, colour and craft.

Babi guling, the island's famous spit-roasted suckling pig, is the ceremonial centrepiece — crisp-skinned, herb-stuffed, and traditionally cooked for temple days and family gatherings. Bebek betutu takes the same slow, spiced approach to duck, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked for hours until the meat falls apart. Ayam betutu does the same with chicken, sold in small warungs across Ubud and Gianyar.

Around those anchors sit the everyday classics: sate lilit, minced fish or chicken pressed onto lemongrass sticks and grilled over coconut husks; lawar, a finely chopped mix of vegetables, coconut and spice; jimbaran seafood grilled on the beach at sunset; nasi jinggo, the late-night rice packets wrapped in banana leaf; and jukut urab, the herby coconut-dressed vegetables that quietly hold the whole meal together.

Bali runs on kopi — thick, unfiltered Balinese coffee brewed straight in the cup, grounds settling as you drink. It is a slow, deliberate ritual, usually taken in the morning with a snack of klepon (green rice-flour balls filled with palm sugar) or laklak pancakes topped with coconut.

In the afternoon heat, the island turns to es — es campur with fruit and jelly, es daluman with green grass jelly and coconut milk, es kuwut with young coconut and melon. And when the sun drops, arak attack cocktails and cold Bintangs take over at the beach, closing the day with the same easy rhythm that opened it.

Bali's food story is one of the most visually rich in the world — banana leaves, coconut husks, temple offerings, warung plates, beach seafood and the layered spice palette of base gede. Our Bali collection turns that world into a single illustrated composition, from babi guling and sate lilit to nasi campur, klepon, arak attack and dozens more.

Every Bali piece is printed and shipped through our Etsy shop — posters, blankets, aprons, totes, shirts and baby onesies for anyone who has fallen in love with the island's kitchen and wants to bring a little of it home.