Ubud Morning Market: Quick Guide to Visiting
All About The Ubud Morning Market
Every morning between 5-6 AM dozens of vendors come and set up their stalls for the Morning Market in Ubud. Tourists in Ubud go to Cocomart (which is a total tourist trap), ex-pats go to the expensive Popular Market which sells imported goods, and locals go to the Ubud Morning Market to do their grocery shopping. The Morning Market is the best place to get locally-grown produce, and flowers, as well as other grocery items like meat and fish.
How To Get To The Ubud Morning Market
It’s important to know that there’s a new location for the Ubud Morning Market, as the old one is now the permanent location for the Ubud Art Market. Now, the Morning Market is set up daily in a parking lot off of Jl. Suweta Street, near the main intersection and close to Milk & Madu Cafe in Ubud Center.
The new location for Ubud Morning Market is in the parking lot in front of Pura Batukara Temple, address: F7W7+QCM, Ubud, Gianyar Regency, Bali 80571, Indonesia. The new location is just around the corner from the old one.
Ubud Morning Market Hours
The market is open every day of the week, from sunrise which is around 6 AM, until 9 AM at which time the stall changes and turns into a parking lot. The Ubud Morning Market and the Ubud Art Market used to be at the same location but they no longer are located in the same place.
What Street Food To Try At The Ubud Morning Market
I started off the day with a bit of Kue, which are Indonesian pastries made from a mix of rice, coconut milk, egg, banana, shredded coconut, and brown sugar. From local ingredients, they’re able to mix into a wide variety of deserts with different colors and textures. I recommend trying a bunch of Kue since they’re really fun to sample. Each Kue at Ubud Morning Market only costs around 5K IDR (35 cents USD).
You can also buy local fruits here! The Morning Market is the best place to get local prices for tropical Indonesian produce like snake fruit, dragonfruit, bananas, coconuts, and papaya.
I bought 5 snake fruit for 1K each, which is about 1/5 what it costs in the grocery store. The typical Indonesian sit-down breakfast is Nasi Goreng (fried rice), and while you can’t get that at the Ubud Morning Market, there are a wide variety of savory foods you can have.
It was a bit too early for me to eat a full meal so I didn’t sample the larger breakfast dishes, but you can buy cooked chicken, a variety of Gorengan (deep-fried finger food), and platters of rice with assorted sides at the Morning Market.
