Bali Noms

Another bad photo due to the lighting. I think I'm starting to understand that dinner in Bali means bad lighting and which also means cool nights.
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Nevertheless this is one of our best meals thus far. Ordered a seafood platter for two which came with lobster, prawns, squid, tuna loin, snapper fish and nasi goreng.
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The nasi goreng was perfectly fried with vege, shallots and some herbs and spices like tamarind and lemon grass.
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The grilled seafood are all marinated with their sambal oelek, just a little spicy and not over the top. The squid was super tender and snapper was super fresh! Lobster may not be the freshest, but with the quality of the rest and the price tag at ~S$52, one can easily close one eye for that.
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. Furthermore there was a one for one cocktail promotion before 2130!
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Will definitely recc this place to anyone that is visiting Bali!

Reason for not having and photos of the mains is because dinner lighting is horrendous. The fiancé only helped to lit up the dessert plates with the front light of his phone for the dessert photos 👆🏻
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Spiced lapis, passionfruit brûlée. This really reminded me of Christmas. The spices in the lapis was a bit of ginger, cinnamon and cloves. The lapis was done very well! Thin dense layers of cakes, where you can almost distinct the layers. The passion fruit brûlée was tangy enough to balance the sweetness of the lapis. Plus the meringue bits that were added on top really added crunchy fun to the textures. It was such a delight to eat everything as a whole. There was even blobs of ganache for a switch up of flavours 🤤 definitely the star tonight.
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Another dish we tried was the Sumatran Barramundi filet. The skin was perfectly crisp, and it sat on a bed of squid, mushrooms and gnocchi with a turmeric coconut sauce. This was the most balanced main dish out of all that we had today. Though there could be more sauce for the barramundi since barramundi doesn't have much flavour on its own but because the bed of stuff absorbed all the sauce, there wasn't much left for the fish.
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Though one dish I would recc not to order is the achar! I'm quite used to the peranakan achar with pickled vege, peanuts and belachan. However the achar came in 3 small plates. 1) Ang moh pickles with a slightly spicy sauce. 2) mixed vege like cucumbers, carrots, capsicum that were half pickled in a sauce not sweet nor salty. 3) some sort of pickled fern that the fiance immediately gave a face to. So unless you are in for a different experience, go ahead and order haha.
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Another must order is definitely the cocktails! Cheap, tasty and easy to drink 👍🏻👍🏻

For small plates, prettily plated and modern Indonesian cuisine. But if you visit at night, it will be too dark to see any of your dishes 😂. Ambience is en point though.
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To be honest, I like certain elements in each dish, but not quite the whole dish. We got the Tahu Isi Bebenuk Lombok, an amaranth stuffed tofu that's fried with grilled mushroom and egg plant. I like the grilled mushroom and egg plant, the crunchiness of the batter but not quite the amaranth stuffed tofu. It lacked a bit of flavour and fragrance from the amaranth?
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Suckling pig. Slow roasted babi guling with corn. Unlike our suckling pick, the skin quickly lost its crispness. The meat doesn't have much flavour. Though there's a layer of meat that tasted like char siew, that was pretty good. The corn stewed in coconut milk that was served together was pretty good too. It kinda reminded me of grits served in southern American eateries but even better.
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Back to the main photo. Egg flan, honey cake and stewed pears. The deconstructed plating was nice and the egg flan was smooth and good. Honey cake was a straight up honey sponge cake but went well together. 👍🏻👍🏻

Bad photo due to lack of light. Food here is pretty decent, though nothing to shout about except the gado gado and price point. Stir fried vege in peanut sauce, what else can you ask for. Besides, we had all this for S$41!! We didn't realise the beef rendang would come with rice, if not we wouldn't have ordered so much 😂
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Top left. Beef rendang, Top right Nasi campor bebek to too, Bottom left pork satay, Bottom right gado gado. The most expensive was the beef rendang at ~S$11.50
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They do quite a wide spread of western and Indonesian food but we chose to have Indonesian food for our first meal in Bali, while waiting to check into our villa ◡̈