Bali - Babi GUling Ibu Oka

Since everyone rave about MUST eat at Ibu Oka and tell me that their Babi Guling is delicious, we went to try it our first lunch in Ubud.

While waiting for the food to arrive, we eat the fruit and crackers (chargeable) that is placed on the table. Seating cross legged, I had a few numbed leg moment.

When the food arrive, we start digging in and...... I do not find the whole dish delicious. The pork skin was not exactly crispy, it was not sufficiently seasoned well before roasting too. The sauce for the vegetable and rice, was just okay but not too appetizing to be rated #1.

Am I too picky? Well maybe, but my partner who usually "eat to live" style also rated it as "over-rated". Not cheap too, IMHO.

Bali - Ayam Tulang Lunak Malioboro

After landing and clearing through an hour of custom at Bali airport, we was received by our driver. As hungry pangs kick in (dinner time), we had ask him to send us for some decent balinese food near airport before our hour long journey to Ubud.

He brought us to Ayam Tulang Lunak Malioboro which is 10mins drive from airport (around 5 mins walk from Harris Tuban Resort).

We ordered their speciality dish Ayam Presto & Steamed Fish. Needless to say my first drink in Bali had to be the Avocado Juice!
First come the drinks. My girl had a fresh orange juice, their OJ is identical to Thailand's Orange. Our avocado taste so thick, non diluted at all.




The chicken and fish dish came. The chicken was okay but not very surprising, a bit dry as Balinese seem to love to over-fried their dishes. The fish was definitely a well-seasoned, perfectly steamed and fresh! We love the fish so much and the soup from the fish is all drank up.

Price wise, its not what the local would go for, as mostly hungry traveller who just arrive would visit. Clean environment, fully airconditioned and clean toilet.



Sup Gurani 66,000 Rupiah
Ayam Presto 1/2 60,000 Rupiah
Rice 6,000 Rupiah x 2
Avocado Juice 24,000 Rupiah x 2
Orange Juice 22,000 Rupiah
Total including tax 239,200 Rupiah

Bali - Bhanuswari Dinner

Ordered dinner at Bhanswari Resort as its getting late to go out.

My first impression of the restaurant was bad actually. The menu smell so stinky that I had to stand up away from the menu and read from 2 steps away. Needless to say, I have feedback this to the village chief.

We ordered 2 main dishes which look similar as you see. The menu photo look less appetizing than my picture here. The amount of meat and vegetables does not meet the proportion needed for presentation.

Tastewise, the BBQ chicken is quite good, but the seafood curry is total disappointment.

Bali - Bhanuswari Resort & Spa, Ubud

We started our 1st resort at 10pm. Its approx 10-15mins drive from Ubud Palace and located in a village. Checkin was a bliss, quick easy and a good refreshment drink (ginger with soda, and perhaps some peppermint leaves) was served within 1min of our arrival.

We book deluxe room, which is within 1min walk from the main building in a semi-detached house. We seem to be the only resort guest at the deluxe side for the night.

The 1st glance of the room, is WOW, the bed is hugh and the canopy adds such a good touch to it (the canopy have functional usage, being in village right at RICE fields, some nights you get insects in the room). The toilet is as big as the bedroom, with the centrepiece being the bathtub. And our princess happily soak in that tub everyday. Resort provide 2-way transfer to Ubud (any place in ubud) by demand. This is really a good add-on service provided. We have the luxury to take the village chief's ride on one day, and he told us about his inspiration for the resort and hope it can provide his village people a stable income.

Breakfast in the resort is really so-so. The pool is small but deep, and out of 3days when we are using it, we have exclusive usage.

High speed free Wifi available at their restaurant and its complimentary.

We booked via www.hoteltravel.com/
Daily room rate booked : 87.12 USD

Jl Tengkulak Ubud,
Ubud, Bali 80571,
Indonesia

Airline - KLM

Taken KLM to Bali this round.

Check in : @ CHangi airport checkin counter, the queue was not long but the CSO serving us was taking his sweet time and 3 in queue took more than 20 mins to be our turn. The return journey was much better, the checkin counter staff was efficient and polite

Food : The food from Sin->Bali was disapointing, the kids meal have too much vegs and beans and not appetizing at all, and the adult meal was never touched because it just does not look good. The food from Bali->Sin is a great better version. the children food is yummy chicken (that taste and look like ham) with fried mashed potatoes, served with mushroom sauce. The adult meal is very spicy chicken with tasty fried noodle, which I suspect 1/2 of the traveller could not take the spicy chicken. Maybe they should change to braised chicken. BTW, they do not have choice for food, only one food choice.

In the craft : the leg space for economy class was better than SQ, The 1.8m husband have even extra 2-4cm space between rows. The entertainment system, only startup after flight moving, this means it will take approx 5-10mins before you get any screen. The flight attendants, was very attentive.

Final review : would not mind taking them for short haul flight, especially if the bill totals to only S$200 to Bali.

Bali airport tax of 150,000 rupiah is collected at departure. Singapore & Bali is on same timezone, sunset of bali is around 6.15pm.

Hong Kong - BaiWei Noodle

At Argle centre Mongkok, which is the place I shop everytime I visit Hong Kong. The last trip I had, i remember getting curious about the noodle stall and had wanted to try it but had not.

This round, while bagging many pairs of shoes purchased, I bought one packet to try, and OMG, this simple noodle that cost HKD10 is delicious, you get to choose 5 ingredients (including the noodle) and they will mix in the sauce for you, I think even my picky 7yo gal would love thenon spicy version, the sauce definitely included oyster sauce, soya sauce, sesame oil and some others.

Definitely a good in-between meal snack.

Hong Kong - Maxim Restaurant

Dine at Maxim around 2pm @ Metroplaza, Hong Kong. Many variety of the dim sum was sold out, apparently good dim sum get sellout soon after lunch hour. We ordered what they had, and one of their pushcart servers was very nice, knowing my colleague wanted a Custard Bun badly, she went to ask kitchen to make a special order for us.

I only like the XO fried Chwee Cheong Fun and the carrot cake. The rest of the food is just so-so for me.