Rating: 7 / 10 I'll admit to feeling slightly guilty eating pork in Indonesia, even tho I am not a muslim. It's a bit like farting in church, it's enormously fun but someone else is going to suffer as a result.
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Rating: 7 / 10 After spending almost 45 minutes in my Grab Taxi getting here, despite it being a short drive, the traffic finally let up and movement was achieved. Eating ramen in this heat is irresponsible, but I calculated in at least 10 minutes of wait time between being seated and eating, which was enough for the AC to cool you down a touch.
Rating: 7 / 10 Housed in a charming building on "tourist lane", with every corner taken up by yogamericans in their late 40's hoping for a Julia Roberts experience, I naturally gravitated to a table away from the hushed whispers about acai seeds and stool consistency.
Rating: 3 / 10 On the odd occasion you find miracles in the strangest places.
This was not one of those occasions. Rating: 8 / 10 Home comforts are not only for travellers with a fear of coriander, they also apply to those that spend more than half the year away from home, and therefore have cravings of normalcy that creep in. My life has always been about spending the summer months in Europe and winter months (as many snowbirds do) trapped in the constant rays of a tormenting sun.
Rating: 8 / 10 Sometimes the hunt for perfection takes a sudden turn and spurs you headlong into an out-of-body experience, where life flashes before your eyes, memories of loved ones flood your sight-field, and a deep welling erupts from within at the first sip of broth.
Today was one of those days. Rating: 5 / 10 Locals are always right? Right? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say "it depends".
Rating: 8 / 10 Look, I know you're in Bali to try Balinese food, visit a temple, prance around barefoot because you think it's sacred, buy a sarong at the nearest stall for 10 times the real price, almost drown learning how to surf, put off that morning meditation alarm until your holiday is over, and maybe, just maybe, meet the person of your dreams... well.... those things can happen, but one thing that doesn't happen too often in Asia is finding an above average Mexican-ish spot.
Rating: 8 / 10 I started eating at places Bourdain went to years ago, knowingly wanting to see what his palate was like, or if his local friends were short-changing him. On some occasions the food met with muted grief, on others divine raptures of falling angelic gang-bang euphoria shaking the very foundations of my soul.
Rating: 9 / 10 The bartender at La Ramona turned to me amid a plume of kretek smoke:
"You like chinese style noodles?" "Oh yes" "Ok, tomorrow go to Fu Shou Noodle Club and try their chicken noodles!". Rating: 8 / 10 Look, anyone who represents an underground music style or counter-culture movement is going to get my vote. I get thrilled to find spots like this around the world where a group of people who are into a certain subculture start a tattoo shop, pizza spot or burger bar.
Rating: 6 / 10 Walking down to rent a scooter from my hotel, I happened upon this cafe with a nice outdoor seating area that was well enough shaded from the midday sun. Bali is hot these days, hot enough to make me reconsider my aversion to head-wear.
I started off with a cooling cocktail of lemongrass, ginger and vodka. It took the edge off a blistering day filled with airport arrivals, grab taxi's, bag draggings and room unpackings. |
"Tastes are subjective, so take everything with a pinch of salty tears"
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