Grilled seafood Jimbaran beach

The best place to eat seafood in Bali has to be Jimbaran. Along Jimbaram beach, there's a long row of barbeque seafood restaurants, that are pretty much identical in menu and price. The special for this area is the fresh grilled seafood, everything is seasoned and marinated the same way. So it really doesn't matter which restaurant you end up in, it's all going to taste the same.

The bali/jimabaran seasoning is combination of chilli, tomatos, onions, garlic and other herbs, they grind it up into a paste and spread it generously all over the seafood before it's grilled over a coal fire.

It is absolutely delicious and not that spicey at all.. but you definitely have to use your hands!

Above is our extra side order of yabbies in jimbaran sauce... very yummy, but yabbies dont have a lot of meat. booo...

Above is our seafood platter with pipis, fish, squid, prawns, tuna, scallops with a side of chips and sambal kang kong. As yummy as it was, this meal did not come cheap... it ended up being about aud $80-$100.

ps: sorry for the confusing fonts... i could not change the first font... still haven't got used to blogger yet.. hehehe...

Malaysia holiday: part 1

many moons ago we went away to malaysia and (supposedly) thailand.
the thailand part did not eventuate... due to factors beyond my control...
(stupid thai riots!!...grrr!!!)... you read more about it in my previous blog, because im not going there again.

anyways... when we arrived in malaysia we were picked up by some close friends of ours.
and from the airport we went straight to a small hawker food stall that sold great indonesian style bakmi. sorry no pictures, we were too bewildered, hungry and excited to think about taking photos of food. food was simple and tasty and we had our first bak ku teh soup in malaysia.
it was VERY nice and did the trick.

from there we went straight to the malls... i cant remember the name but its the one with the egyptian theme at the entrance. at the mall we exchanged money and tried many snacks that was sold through out the place. my most memorable snack was a tako yaki - japanese octopus balls.... it was the start of many more tako yakis throughout the holiday.


from the shopping centre we started thinking about dinner... what to eat? where to eat?
restaurant at the shopping mall? or go hawker food?
screw the restaurants... we want hawker food! good cheap local eats ... yum....

and so this is where we ended up, petaling jaya in some huge open style food court.
and we pretty much went stupid and ordered with our eyes and noses ... because EVERYTHING smelt soooo goood...and yummy.

this is Brandon .. our friends son... such a cutie pie!

fruit juice!! yum!!! to tell you the truth i cant remember what juice this was (simon ordered it) but it was a huge mug and it was like RM5? sooo cheap!! in the background leni had a watermelon juice which was very nice too.

30 sticks of chicken and beef satay with longtong.

grilled to perfection and the meat was soo tender and full of flavour.

our little sting ray.

i've never had sting ray before but its a very nice white tender fish, cooked in a local sambal sauce with these wierd local beans. so yummy!!

grilled squid again with a local sambal and green beans

this was a really delicious meal, we tried so many new and different things that night and i just want to say thank you soo much to leni and gary for picking us up from the airport, showing us around and then taking us to the hotel. we really appreciate your friendliness and hospitality in showing us around that day. Cant wait to go back to malaysia!

luv.clio

ps: looking at all these foods is making me drool