Vacation Epic: Part 4 - Bali and the Cuisine~

Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Part 3 ~ Part 4

The best part about the whole vacation was the food. Really. Although I didn't eat much the first couple of days (thanks to having such a bad sore throat that I couldn't swallow much without feeling incredibly pained), I was more than happy to chow down when the days of healing dawned on me.

Unfortunately, I did not take a picture of the breakfast buffets that I enjoyed at the hotel. Let me just say that for the entire stay I enjoyed having a plate of french toast and bacon drowned in maple syrup with scrambled eggs on the side. There was honeydew melons, watermelons and pineapple - and juices and tea and coffee to enjoy. There was a ton of food every morning... all you can eat... and I must say I became partial to eggs with maple syrup.

Nom nom.

Lunch was sometimes provided by the hotel. Sometimes it was on us... And it varied in stuff... but I really liked the apertifs they kept feeding us - like seafood patties on sticks, meat sticks, spring rolls with hot sauce and other various goodies and tiny parfaits. Sweetness doesn't seem to be their forte - but then, it rarely is in the East. It's more about spice...

One thing I did enjoy - which WAS sweet - was the one drink I bought at Dunkin' Donuts. It reminded me of the Chocolate ice smoothies you can buy at Second Cup - but with a bit of espresso in it. Very very nice. It was better than the donuts (nothing can beat Timmies or Granddad's).

(Balinese food I DID not eat... Egg and noodles and stuff...)

I didn't eat so much Balinese food as I did Western. In China, Western can be had -but it is, of course, much more expensive. In Bali, I could enjoy cheap Western food... Hamburgers with fries, for example.


For sure, there was a McDonalds down the road a ways, and there was a KFC across the intersection... but, I really enjoyed the high-end Western food.

Like the homemade Ravioli...


(Although I did successfully make homemade dumplings with pasta back in China...)

It was just a good time had by all. Lots of friendships were bolstered by food. What more can I say?

(A pizza - that I did not eat...)