Our next dare came from my buddy Brandon Scripps. The dare was to find a restaurant in Bali that was featured on an Anthony Bourdain episode called Babi Guling Ibu Oka and to order the Pork Special. I can't tell you how nice it was to get a dare that I could actually enjoy, not to mention it was a restaurant that I would not have been to had I not been dared to go, and thank god I did.
The restaurant is run by a family that lives down the street from the restaurant, and they start by killing the pig in their backyard. They then stuff the pig with all kinds of different Balinese spices, throw it on a spit, and turn it by hand over an open fire for hours on end. The icing on the cake, is that the entire time they are roasting it, they are brushing coconut milk over the outside of the pig, making the skin a crispy, sweet, delicious porky treat. The dish itself consisted of a couple of big chunks of the loin, a blood sausage, pieces of breaded and deep fried pork, and nice big piece of the crispy skin all covered in some kind of delicious pepper sauce. It was by far the best pork I've ever had.
I had originally ordered just one plate for Brooke and I to share, but after devouring the first plate, we didn't think twice about ordering a second, phenomenal. Again, without the dare I probably would not have made it to this gem in the middle of Bali. Thanks Scripps.
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