Bakso, aka Indonesian meatball usually served with noodles and soup, is so popular in Indonesia that you can find it everywhere, by street vendors and restaurants alike. Arguably, it’s not so ...

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 ...

It costs 25,000 rupiah or $1.80 for the special bakso dish, which consists of 2 big meatballs, 2 small meatballs, tofu, beef knuckles, and noodles. It tastes good, but it is nothing extraordinary.

Bowls of piping hot soup are lined up in the Bakso Barokah kitchen, most with a gigantic boulder bobbing among noodles. Honestly, the thing’s colossal – you’d need to unhinge your jaw to eat it.