Restaurant Bale Lantang, Pacung

On the second day of our tour, we ate at another mountain top area again, which is called Pacung, but the actual restaurant within that spot is called Restaurant Bale Lantang. Check it out:

Setting of the entrance

Going downwards to our lunch spot

Le restaurant's namesake

Our seating area

Another eating area below us with a great view

The buffet line

My hoard

It was buffet style again just like the first day, and the food is more or less similar, except without the yummy crunchy deep-fried veggies fritters. I only ate one round coz I was just too cold to want to move around. Due to the high altitude, the cold was practically unbearable and we were eating at an open air dining, which made us so fucking freezing. And getting cold instead of hot drinks as part of our meal does not help either.

Overall rating: 7/10 (kudos for the view)

Mt. Batur

When we were brought to our lunch spot on the first day of tour, we went all the way up to a place facing Mt. Batur, one of Bali's famous active volcano, though the last time it erupted was in 1995. Here's how our lunch spot looked like:

Setting: Indoor and outdoor dining area with a view, and coz it's high altitude, you can feel the slight chill

Buffet style food, which mostly consist of a lot of grilled and fried food and also quite a number of curries and rendang (or was it kurma? Can't remember)

My hoard

Free one bottle of drinks, served in old school bottles that I thought no longer exists LOL (Coke is mine, Fanta Orange is my hubby's)

Maybe I was hungry due to the long trip up Mt. Batur, but the food is definitely delicious, and their vegetable fritters were absolutely yummy. I couldn't help horking down a lot of them during my second round. Even my hubs who is not a veggie lover ate quite a lot and loved it.

And there is also the great view, which is very hard to beat, so that's that. A little bit cold, but still awesome.

Overall rating: 7/10

Hawaii Bali

Our dinner spot on the first day of tour was Hawaii Bali, where we were treated to authentic Balinese cuisine. Here's how it looks:

Location: Prolly somewhere around the Anyer Province area, there is a souvenir shop just right next door of the same name as well for people to shop after their meal

Stairways to food heaven

Setting: A slightly opened aired restaurant with the windows open and just a bit of fan for cooling here and there. Reminds me of a Middle Eastern type of restaurant, but with a hint of Hawaii

Le table

It's a full-course meal of Balinese cuisine, so we totally dug into that. Here's what we were served:

Some kind of peanut soto soup

Steamed white rice

Fried sambal prawn

Broiled broccoli with mushroom in black sauce

Deep fried cuttlefish

Sambal kangkung

Grilled chicken with spicy sauce

Pattaya egg omelet

The food tastes pretty good and familiar, since it's basically Asian dishes that we more or less can get back home, but they do have a twang of spice and acidity in it that makes it different from the rest. Love the kangkung and the egg omelet though. Those were amazing, and the soup tastes pretty unique. Who knew soto soup goes well with peanuts?

Overall rating: 7/10

Sandekala

My hubs and I went on his company trip to Bali last week, and of course, we tasted some awesome local cuisines there. First off, lemme introduce our daily breakfast area within our hotel, which is called the Sandekala.

Location: Within The Best Hotel, center of Bali

Setting: Awesome open air dining where you can feel the cool morning wind and not worry about freezing to death with any sort of air-conditioning. All au naturale

Our breakfast is buffet style, so of course I took a lot of shots around the area to showcase the food they have.

What lies behind the counter

Sauces and condiments for those interested in the Asian breakfast

Soto stand

Asian breakfast section, includes fried noodles, broiled chicken, mixed vegetables and Malay omelets

Western breakfast section, including the egg booth where you can order how your eggs needed to be cooked, cereal and bread with the jams involved

Plates and bowls for eating

The food here is pretty good, grade-A hotel food, though it would've been better if they didn't have the Asian breakfast, but then again there are locals here as well as people from other Asian countries who prefer to eat Asian breakfast, so it's cool.

Overall rating: 7.5/10