And restaurants in these areas serve indigenous meals, including rice in bamboo stalks, roasted wild boar and millet wine.

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Local residents live on agriculture and forest industries, such as rice, potato, vegetables, bamboo and tea-tree oil cultivation.

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It is a scenic drive: lotus ponds, bamboo groves, water buffalo, the familiar smell of rice blossoms.

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Dewi Sri is the Balinese Hindu goddess of fertility and prosperity, and it is to her that the rice farmers so carefully present offerings in the simple bamboo shrines at the edge of each field, just as we had witnessed earlier.

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There would also be a soup, usually made of spinach or watercress or bamboo shoots mixed with dried shrimp, tofu, or egg drops, or even rice crust.

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