I love food in Bali. It's fresh, simple and healthy - and I honestly don't touch any western food if I can help it. There's a lot of western food on offer in most places - pizza, steak and chips, pasta - but give me a gado gado or nasi goreng any day. If you don't know what these are, keep reading.

In Seminyak, we walked up to the same restaurant for lunch and dinner three nights running. When you find a good place, you stick to it. It's attached to an accomodation, so the pool area for guests creates an nice ambience, particularly with the waterfall.

The prices were reasonable which was also great, and the portion sizes decent.

My favourite was gado gado. This is a selection of steamed vegetables with some kind of protein, often a boiled egg or some tofu or tempeh, with a peanut sate sauce. How could something so simple taste so good?

My uncle can't go past chicken served with rice and peanut sauce. It's an old favourite and a crowd pleaser for those who don't like 'foreign' food.

Jamie's favourite was fried chicken with rice and one of my favourite - if not THE favourite - sambals, which is a kind of sauce that can be specific to different regions of Indo. Sambal Oelek is often the most well known, a chilli paste, but this one was incredible, having lemongrass, chilli, kaffir lime leaves, shrimp paste and shallots? It would become a firm favourite for the next week, particularly with fish.

Jamie had an amazing beef rendang for his birthday - no photos, as it was dark and we were busy having fun. A rendang is an Indo curry with all kinds of spices you wouldn't expect like cloves. I had a tofu curry which was also delicious.

Meals here ranged from around $4 to $10 - pretty good to eat like a king on your birthday. It'd be five times as much in Australia. No wonder Aussies love coming here.

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