When Chef Bagus closed the doors to his restaurant in the Balinese tourist resort of Kuta, the only thing left in the kitchen was the hallmark aroma of his world-famous BBQ ribs.
With Indonesia's usual inflow of cash-happy and Instagram-snappy tourists all but dried up due to global travel restrictions, Chef and his crew emptied the chiller, cleared the shelves and cooked every last ingredient on hand. Then, they promptly donated the food about 150 boxes in total to a local charity distributing meals to the needy. That was late February and since then Chef's crew of 32 people have been sitting at home in Bali waiting for the green light to go back to work.
