Pasar Jimbaran — Attraction in Kuta

Our recommendations:

Wear appropriate clothing and have a sturdy stomach. This place is not for the faint. The smell is quite intense and most westerners will have a problem with the extremely strong odours of fresh fish and the rotting garbage. The reason for the clothing implies shoes or slippers among others. The floor on the indoor and outdoor fishmarket are wet. Your nice shoes will soak up the water. We wore slippers. Our toes got wet, but there are some faucets right in front of the ‘indoor’ market to rinse of your feet/slippers.

Vendors also don’t pay much mind when spraying water overs their goods. So you might get splashed a little bit.

Have the full experience and buy some fresh products. They tend to overask when you’re a tourist. But it is still cheap. You can haggle and also demand which pieces you would particularly like to buy. Also they pretend not to have change, do not be afraid to walk away. And out comes the change.

On either side of the market their are small simple restaurants. Here you can ask them to prepare you freshly bought fish. The will make you a price per kg and you can wait for it. Be aware that these are not high end places but they sure prepare a mean fishdish. The restaurants tend to ask you how much you paid and make a snarky comment. As a foreigner it will most often be way too much. Let them gloat.

You can choose to have rice or extra’s with your fish but we bought 2 kilogram of fish, so no need for rice or something additional.

You can also choose to dine in or takeaway.

We loved the taste of the fresh fish and what the restaurant did with flavoring. That we probably will not visit the way overpriced seaside located fishrestaurants at Jimbaran anymore. They will charge you 10x more easily. Just for the decor but to us this is the Bali experience for sure.

Another precaution, take some wetwipes with you.

Do ask any questions because this was a major highlight for us as we love a good meal regardless of the...

Fresh fish market. You can pick your fish here and get them cooked in one of the warungs next to it. We picked warung garlic. They charged 20000 per kilo but we had 4 different type of fish and they calculated all of them seperately so 80k for 4 type of fish (we had calamari, local fish, clams, prawns). The fish market itself is a great experience to pick some local seafood. The prawns started from 70k all the way up to 140k per kilo. Fish was 50k per kilo....

Great place to have decent cheap seafood in premium quality. Buy your seafood on the market, and have it cooked anywhere in a Warung for 20k/kg

Some tips of how to choose raw whole fish look for a clear rather than milky eye of the fish The flesh should be bouncy The fish should not be intensely fish smelly For the sake of the taste, choose fishing smaller size rather...