Cooking class, Our chicken and Mama Bali

The first place we went was the local market. This is where we found "Mama Bali" (A woman to represent the women of local Bali) selling chicken. There feet were tied together so they could fly away or escape.This is when we were asked to pick out our chicken for lunch.Mama Bali is cuting free "Charlie", the chicken we chose.Here Mama Bali is showing us how she make the container and filling it with rice, for the rice cakes. They basically make this little package from leaves fill it with a little rice close it up by tieing the ends and throw it into water and out comes a nice little rice patty once you peel away the leaves.

I just thought this was cute she made a bird out of the same leaves that she made the little pouch for the rice.