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Thursday, March 11, 2010

BALI TRIP: Day 3 Food Hunt

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt in Bali on the 3rd Day of visit. We had a wonderful trip in the morning as we visited the Taman Ayun, Botanical Garden, Bedugul and of course the magnificent view makes my mood even more better and of course, my appetite would get more and more good and of course nice trip, nice view will actually increases your appetite because you can enjoy the view while enjoying your lunch. Sounds good isn't it?

Our tour guide Gusti brought us to Mentari Restaurant inside the town of Bedugul after we visited the Ulun Danu Temple and Lake Beratan. The food served here is a buffet style ala Indonesia food. This restaurant is situated in front of the Beratan Lake and while enjoying the buffet, you also can enjoy the food as well. Lovely isn't it? I have requested for Babi Guling earlier on but our driver Gusti said that the Babi Guling in this area is not nice as compared to the ones in Ubud.

The overall buffet there was absolutely nice and tempting too. If you love Indonesia food, then this place is suitable for you but it's limited in choice. The main course of the food is mainly rice and noodles served with vegetables cooked ala Indonesian style which had a lot of spicy cooked with the food. They served keropok (rice crackers), belacan rice, spicy kuey teow noodles, vegetables, spring rolls served with red bean sauce, corn soup, bean sprout and curry chicken as well. For fruits, they served papaya, watermelon and pineapple. For drinks, they served coffee and tea only as other drinks will be charged separately. The price per person meanwhile is not expensive and it's only IDR 60.000 per person only. After plus tax, the bill came is around IDR 144.000 (for 2 persons). I will miss this buffet place too with good food and beautiful view. If you are somewhere around there, mind to tell your tour guide and have a try on it. They will know because this place is a toursit destination as well for food. MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 3/5

Address:

Mentari Restaurant,

Jl. Raya Bedugul,

Candi Kuning - Tabanan - Bali

Telephone: +62 368 21330

Then at night after we rest for a while before dinner, we walked out from the hotel and then go to look for food around the Kuta beach area where Hard Rock Hotel was situated there as well. While we are walking, we found a place that suits us. We managed to found a food court nearby in Jalan Kuta and the food court name is called KUTA SEASIDE FOOD CENTER. There we sat down and look into what fod that is suitable for both of us and finally we have decided to take the local Indonesian food again. We decided to try out the rice served with some Indonesian dishes. We've ordered 2 steam rice (IDR 4.000 each) served with Kangkung (IDR 20.000), Hot Plate Chicken (IDR 40.000) & Tom Yum soup (IDR 25.000). Both of us ordered Coca Cola (IDR 10.000) as our drinks too. Let's go straight to the food comments. The Kangkung was nice too and tasty as well the Hot Plate Chicken where the taste was wonderful and just nice to consume. It's not salty too. But, the Tom Yum soup turned nightmare for us as it is not nice at all. The taste was very plain and not much tom yum flavour. Overall the food was nice except the Tom Yum. The bill came and it's totalling to IDR 103.000 (about RM30+) per person. If you would like to look for cheaper food, you can come here to this Kuta Seaside Food Center as you can get cheaper food here with some local taste food. I would recommended you to this place and give it a try. MY RATING: 4/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 4/5