A key part of any holiday experience is food. During the first week of our stay in Bali we had two nice and very contrasting dining experiences. Merah Putih is billed as the best Indonesian restaurant in Denpasar. It was just a few blocks from our Seminyak villa so we prebooked well ahead of time for a visit. The restaurant venue is very impressive - from the inside it looks a bit like a giant greenhouse, including the plants. The food was spectacular. While every dish was good, the Bak Pao Sapi (Beef steamed buns) and Semur Sapi (slow roasted beef cheek) were incredible. Then for Christmas Eve lunch we had booked at Starfish Bloo at W Bali, one of the swankiest Sunday Brunch venues on the island. Sunday brunch buffets are a signature Bali experience with many of the big international hotels putting on all you can eat extravaganzas once a week. Needless to say the meal was jaw dropping. We had a great table close to the beach where we enjoyed unlimited luxury food from 12 to 3.
Eric's view... Waterbom might be Bali's number one tourist attraction. It's beautiful, clean, safe and full of high tech slides which can be a surprise to some tourists who might have formed a different view based on poor stereotypes and subconscious bias. Frankly it leaves Australian water parks for dead in pretty much every way. We were lucky to visit on what seemed to be a fairly quiet day. The longest wait we had for any slide was about 15 minutes, but mostly wait times were between zero and 5 minutes which meant plenty of exercise climbing stairs between sliding. They have an excellent cashless system for buying food and other things in the park. You just pre load a wristband with credit and off you go. Unused credit gets refunded at the end of the day. Oh and the food is a fair bit better than western amusement parks. Way cheaper for starters, more variety and the claim that they have Bali's best chips might even be accurate. The lazy river was particula