It's the last day of our safari stay. Last chance to have breakfast with the lions.
Sometimes I wonder if animals are kept in captivity for too long, will they lose their instinct to hunt? Or what if the animals were born here, never taught how to hunt by its parents, will they be able to hunt and survive if ever release into the wild again??
Anyway, something to warm the stomach. Spicy ayam soto. I liked the savoury and spicy soup minus the yellow noodles.
Goreng pisang. It seems that Balinese like to grow their own bananas and they served this almost daily. I liked the batter but not the bananas inside. They were a bit sour not sweet.
Blamer is a die-hard mee goreng fan. I think this was her fav dish here, the chili was definitely a winning factor, I liked the salty and slightly peppered crackers though.
I dug into their English breakfast this time. Scrambled eggs on toast, served with bacon, sausage, hash-brown and slice of tomato. Sadly, my fav was the tomato which was slightly charred on one side. Bacon was a bit over done, too hard. Weird tasting sausage, eggs were just fine. Concluded, they are only good at doing room service foods. Wa ha ha, if not for the lions, maybe we should just order room service.
A dip in the pool. Since we are shifting accomodation later, doesn't make sense for us to venture out. Quite cool to watch the animals and relax on such a sweltering day.
They have a poolside bar (as seen behind Blamer), but too bad nobody was manning it when we were there. Maybe we were too early...
Eh... Sun tanning???
I think this was more like it... Ha ha ha, I heard that spotting a tan makes one looks slimmer....
Sad that we got to surrender our key today. Definitely will miss this place.
The helpful room cleaner help us take a last pic of the place.
Blamer happily posting with her new bag.
We finally managed to pinch the safari hat from the driver. This completed our safari journey.
Our next accommodation : Drupadi Studios. Looks ok from here...
With a mini pool.
And our modest bed. A far cry from the safari, but you pay for what you get, so nothing much we can do. However, the staff were very friendly and took great care to ensure that we had all that we needed.
After settling in, we walked around the area in search of their mini mart for supplies like drinking water, and also to have dinner at Sate Bali, which was among the top few rated eateries on trip advisor.
Some dips to go along with the crackers.
My appetiser which was gado gado served with a stick of chicken sate. (I think sate here has the same meaning as satay)
We ordered a combination of Kuta set and Seminyak set, although I can't really tell the difference or why they name it this way.
They served it with three kinds of rice. Normal white rice, yellow and brown. I liked the yellow one, can't describe it but there's a faint fragrance to it.
The individual dishes. To me, this feels like eating chap chai pung, which is rice with a few side dishes. I particularly like the greenish chicken, bathed in a rich coconut sauce. And their beef rendang which was very soft and full of flavour. Goes very well with rice. Their vegetables was so-so, very plain as they only boiled them in water, and drizzled some oil on them that's all.
Next comes the dessert, consisting of goreng pisang (again), some cut fruits, I think it is pulau hitam in the center and some tapioca cakes and some greenish kueh. I liked the greenish kueh the most, with the sweetened coconut shavings in the center.
Look at the crowd @ Taka! Gosh, I nearly fainted when I tried to squeeze my way in.
Went all the way to Taka just for one particular booth
Mini egg custards mooncakes from The Peninsula, Hong Kong. I first read about this particular brand from MQ's food blog and I asked my fellow foodie colleague in HK about them. Turned out that we gave our HK clients' Peninsula's mooncakes as well.
3 boxes of 8 mini egg custards mooncakes. Mummy & great-granny were full of praises for these.
Raffles Hotel Snow-Skin mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache, courtesy of Leecher! This has got to be the must-have-mooncakes in my house, since it appeared for 2 consective years. I only got 1/4 bite of a mooncake and before I know it, the whole box was empty :(
Marriott's traditional double-yolk mooncakes with white lotus paste for my corporate clients. It was a mad rush delivering 32 boxes of mooncakes to my clients personally with their gift cards. Glad that we managed to finish the task in 4 days!
The turn-out of the night! It's a pity that Weiming's family left before I arrived :( couldn't get to see WenLe and TianLe.
A bunch of 20-yr-something people doing wacky poses for the camera, LOL. That's how life is supposed to be!
