As a bell chimes through the air, my dog's ears stand up because she knows she's in for a treat. It's the "bakso man" passing my home in Bali with his brightly painted handcart loaded with Indonesia's most popular street food.
Bakso are fluffy white meatballs made of minced chicken, beef, seafood or pork, and tapioca flour. They're served in a soup with ingredients such as vermicelli, tofu, noodles, egg, mustard greens and crackers, and seasoned with soy sauce, pepper, salt, chili sauce and sambal -- homemade chili relish.
