Nasi Ayam Kedewatan Ibu Mangku - Ubud (Pusat) — Restaurant in Bali

Ibu Mangku is a gem located on a busy thoroughfare. What looks like a normal eatery leads into a serene garden with a series of charming pavilions (which house most of their seating).

The menu is small and revolves around rice sets - though you can order extra portions of the dishes featured in the sets.

Nasi kedewatan is the specialty of the house (and area) and the “spesial” set features nasi putih (steamed white rice) accompanied by small portions of ayam betutu (chicken slow cooked in rich Balinese spices), ayam suir (shredded chicken dressed in Balinese spices), lawar (Balinese salad of cooked long beans, shredded coconut and mixed spices), sate lilit (grilled minced fish on a stick), gulai nangka ati ampela (young jackfruit and chicken liver curry), sambal embe (rather spicy sambal of fried chillies and onions), kacang goreng (deep fried peanuts), telur pindang (eggs boiled in spices), gorengan kulit ayam (deep fried chicken skin) and kuah ayam betutu (gravy from ayam betutu).

We ordered a side of tempe goreng (deep fried fermented soybean chips) and lawar (extra veggies) to share, on top of a Nasi Kedewatan Spesial for each of us. The restaurant sells snacks near the counter and these can be purchased to eat at your table.

It was a rainy day (light rain) and it felt a little chilly. Some hot drinks soon warmed us up and the food was quick to arrive.

Everything tasted delicious. There were so many things on one plate that every mouthful tasted different. All the dishes were flavourful and the different textures (tender chicken, crispy skin and tempe, etc) gave so much to this one plate of food.

Sitting at a low table on the floor in an open air pavilion with only one other (unoccupied) table made it feel private, yet visible to attentive staff. The peaceful atmosphere of the garden and Balinese ornaments/decorations in the pavilion and garden lent it a certain serenity that Bali just seems to have.

I now know why Ibu Mangku is a Balinese institution and why this restaurant reportedly causes traffic jams along this road during lunchtime. 😁

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Quite far from our hotel, around 1.5km. So we drove there early morning, since this resto is one of the rare resto that suitable with us as a moslem family.

No pork culinary, and if im not mistaken, they claimed to be halal resto somewhere in google, since their menu only nasi ayam kedewatan, it's only chicken. They open quite early, 07am, so thats great!

The only issue is only a parking lot, there are no parking lot! We need to park outside the resto, occupied the pedestarians if you drive car, but almost resto in Ubud has the same issue. We park infront of the resto, cross the narrow amd busy road.

Their food actually okay, the place was cozy, cool, full of ornaments, Bali's traditional houses, spoiled your eyes. The price considering cheap, the nasi ayam kedewatan only Rp26k! Affordable maybe the correct word, my wife insisted the right word is cheap not affordable.

They also provide, cemilan aka local snacks. We paid non-cash payment, debit. And we saw lot of gofood driver came, so i guess you can pay them by gopay also.

This resto quite famous in Bali, especially in Ubud i guess. For you a moslem family, that might be facing a hard time to find halal culinary in Bali, this resto might be your best option around. We recommend them...you must try once when you...

One of the few restaurant in Bali that you should try out! The ambience and the balinese infrastructures of the restaurant are refreshing and authentic - which in all honesty really brings out the best of this Balinese restaurant. For the price and the food portion, it is not bad. In the Nasi Campur we got 2 types of chicken (ayam betutu and some spicy chicken), there’s some minced green beans veggies, eggs (it was originally 1/2 of the whole egg, but because I ordered an extra egg so in the picture there’s 1 whole egg), some type of fried skin (I don’t know if it is pig or chicken skin), chicken satay, and fried peanuts. To be honest out all the “meat” on the Nasi Campur, I prefer the egg, chicken satay, and fried peanuts the most. The spicy chicken has less flavour than the ayam betutu - maybe even abit too dry and hard. While the ayam betutu was good but abit too oily for my liking. To be honest I would have given a 4/5 rating mainly because of the ambience and the pretty friendly waitress. Otherwise I would most likely give a 3/5 rating. Also another thing, their restrooms are abit dirty and old, I hope they’ll renovate it because the rest of infrastructure...