Famous Pia Legong From Bali

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Balinese Snacks

Bali, Indonesia, rated as the most beautiful island resorts in the world, is well known for cultural diversity, arts, and traditions. If you heard "island with 1000 temples/Gods", that refers to Bali. Blessed with beautiful nature from white sandy beaches to majesty volcano, green and golden rice fields, the people, and much more. The list is longer than this.

There are so many things in Bali to see and do. If you are planning to visit Bali, the must to do list is getting longer. One thing is try some traditional Balinese food such as babi guling (Balinese roasted pig), kopi (coffee), ayam betutu (Balinese chicken wrapped in banana leaves), jukut (salad), bebek (duck), etc. One more thing do not forget to buy some snack as gifts such as pia, kacang (peanut), brem, or fruit such as salak (snake fruit).

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Pia Legong

One famous snack from Bali is pia, a mung bean filled pastry. The other name for pia is bakpia (Javanese), or hopia (Filipino). It could be this pastry is originally introduced by Chinese immigrants in Southeast Asia. Commonly come in traditional filling such as mung bean, nowadays pia come in many filling such as cheese, chocolate, durian, pineapple, etc.

One famous pia is Pia Legong. This specialty pia is different from other traditional pastry. The outer pastry is a flacky type of Chinese puff pastry. Currently the available filling are mung bean, chocolate and cheese. Some foodies describe this pastry is exclusive version of Bakpia Pathok from Jogyakarta (Central Java). It comes in individual plastic wrap, good size and of course tasty flacky layer of pastry and luscious fillings.

How to get Pia Legong ?

Due to high demand, Pia legong only available by reserved only. You can order this pastry 3 weeks in advanced. Visit their website to get more information about how to order.

Pia Legong contact information:

Kitchen House of Pia Legong
Jl. By pass Ngurah Rai, Ruko Kuta Megah 12/L Kuta-Bali

Contact by phone
Phone : +62 361 7898777

Contact by e-mail
info@pialegong.com

Online Service
yahoo id : pialegong

Can not get Pia Legong ?

Try some other type of Chinese snacks instead

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  • food_monkey Oct 22, 2011 @ 9:37 pm | delete
    great lens!
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    Great photos.Great Lens.
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    thanks
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    I'd eat this if I could right now, 'thumbs up' in the meantime.
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