Best Tipat Cantok in Bali (Denpasar)
Tipat Cantok is Bali's version of a warm vegetable salad with peanut sauce, similar to the Javanese Gado-Gado. It consists of "Tipat" (rice cakes compressed in palm leaf pouches) and blanched local vegetables like long beans, bean sprouts, and spinach. These are mixed to order in a stone mortar (cobek) with a fresh peanut sauce made from fried peanuts, garlic, chili, and palm sugar. The word "Cantok" refers to the grinding action of the pestle, and each portion is made individually to ensure the sauce is perfectly fresh. The trap is buying a version where the rice cakes have become dry and hard from being stored in the open air.
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Tipat Cantok is Bali's version of a warm vegetable salad with peanut sauce, similar to the Javanese Gado-Gado. It consists of "Tipat" (rice cakes compressed in palm leaf pouches) and blanched local vegetables like long beans, bean sprouts, and spinach. These are mixed to order in a stone mortar (cobek) with a fresh peanut sauce made from fried peanuts, garlic, chili, and palm sugar. The word "Cantok" refers to the grinding action of the pestle, and each portion is made individually to ensure the sauce is perfectly fresh. The trap is buying a version where the rice cakes have become dry and hard from being stored in the open air.