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Dapur Bali Mula

📍Bali, Indonesia
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Away in the quiet village of Les, far from the beach clubs and smoothie bowls of southern Bali, Dapur Bali Mula isn’t just a restaurant.

It’s the life’s work of Gede Yudiawan - chef, high priest, and keeper of tradition. Before COVID, Gede was running hotel kitchens, serving hundreds a night. But after years of stress and a dream (literally) calling him home, he traded banquet halls for the land he grew up on.

During the pandemic, while the island went quiet, Gede built something rare: a sacred space where the land leads, ancestors whisper, and food tastes like memory.

There’s no menu here. Just whatever was grown, caught, or foraged that day, cooked over fire, served with bare hands, and eaten under the open sky.

It’s not just about taste (though trust us, you’ll dream about their smoky sate lilit for years). It’s about reconnecting with Bali’s culinary roots, think spices crushed by hand, stories passed through generations, and meals that feel more like rituals than dinner.

Come hungry. Come humble. And taste the real Bali, from someone who lives it, breathes it, and blesses it!

📍You’ll find this restaurant (and more that actually matter) in TRAppe’s Bali e-guide.

In this week’s What’s Hot & What’s Not by real travellers like yourself, say Hi to Annabel, a sustainability consultant and researcher.

Annabel is part time sustainability consultant with Third Era Sustainability, part time researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, and a full time wanderer of beaches, forests, and eco-lodges. She’s currently involved in a range of projects in sustainable tourism and conservation across Bali, Niue, and her home Aotearoa, New Zealand, supporting businesses and communities to tread more lightly on the planet.

🔥 What’s Hot

travelling slower and ditching the pressure to see all the 'hot spots', asking locals for their favourite food recommendations and hidden gems (I play a game where I ask someone at the hotel for a recommendation, then do the same at the next stop, and the next… letting the day unfold from there), carrying a full suite of reusables (not just a keep cup, but cutlery, containers, a straw as well as eco beauty and bath, my faves are @aleph.beauty, @dustglow_waterlessbeauty and @ethiqueworld), digital detox cafés (@cafebloombali), keeping up an exercise routine while on the road, and saying hi to strangers (shoutout to my new friends Frederike and Sami both sustainable travel powerhouses in their own right!), tourism businesses genuinely trying new things when it comes to sustainability (looking at you, Potato Head), learning about places before I go, listening to local music or a good old historical fiction novel (too many titles to list but get in touch if you want a recommendation!).

❄️ What’s Not

expecting everyone to speak English, skipping local visitor fees and park passes (if you can afford the flight, you can afford to contribute to the places you're enjoying), enjoying visa-free or easy access travel without questioning why it’s so hard for others to visit our countries in return, turning up without cultural context and treating sacred sites like selfie backdrops, blaming governments or locals for waste or sustainability issues without first looking at your own footprint.

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