Anika cooking course

We love asian food! We love going to the restaurants and experience new flavours and new food! But the best way to celebrate it, is to learn how to prepare it yourself!

The last day on Bali we spent with Anika Cooking class. The class started early in the morning, because our chef wanted to show us the local market. He explained us the main ingredients used to prepare typical Indonesian meals.

Preparing the blessings, which attract good spirits.

When we returned from the market, it was time for morning tea.

The chef is showing us typical sweets to enjoy with tea.

The chef explain, that we will be learning to cook the following dishes: beef in Balinese sauce, grilled fish, fried noodles, fried rice, Balinese chicken satay, roasted eggplant sambal, tofu fritters, bean and coconut salad, bubur sum-sum and pisang rai. First we had to prepare and chop the ingredients.

When everything was finely chopped, we started working on chicken satay.

Next, we prepared delicious tofu fritters.

We continued with fried noodles, fried rice and other dishes.

The result was very delicious!! Our taste buds were having the time of their life.

The last thing on our menu was the dessert.

We had a great time learning how to handle the ingredients and how to cook proper and delicious Indonesian food! The owner and his aunt made sure we had a great time and bellies completely full.

The owner and main chef and his aunt.

Greetings from Anika Cooking Class in Bali,

Jerneja & Boris

Back to Bali

Our vacation was coming to the end, but before we returned to Germany we needed some chillaxing. We went to our favourite Cafe & Hotel chain - The Hard Rock Hotel Bali. Amazing area, incredible collection, good food and pretty awesome pool. What more can one ask for? We had a great time here to relax and prepare for our return to reality.

Best regards from Hard Rock Hotel Bali,

Jerneja & Boris

Yogyakarta: Borobudur and Prambanan temple

We left Jakarta, but we wanted more history. We booked flight tickets to Yogyakarta and we were on our way. 

Yogyakarta is smaller city than Jakarta, nevertheless both cities have something in common - they are not very touristic! Even though they have a lot of rich history and art to offer, it is still mainly appreciated by the locals. The streets are crowded and it is very easy to get lost. Our decision was to take a taxi, which brought us directly to Andrea Hotel. It is a very nice and clean hotel owned by Swiss guy and his indonesian wife. He was very helpful and he recommended us a very nice place to eat and organised a tour to Borobudur and Prambanan.

It was late in the evening and we were hungry for some local cousine. We took the advise from the hotel owner and went to the House of Raminten, where we tried the meat balls.

The next day started very early. We woke up at 4:00 in the morning. We did our best to clean up and look normal. We were off to see the sunrise above the Borobudur temple. We had to hike to a mountain to see it, but not without a cup of coffee and some breakfast.

The mountain was full of people - mainly locals, waiting for the sun to come out.

At the top of the mountain

The view from the mountain. Borobudur was unfortunatelly not seen, because of the fog.

The way was back to the car was fun. We saw a lot of unexpected things and people...

On the ride to the Borobudur temple we saw beautiful rice fields.

Borobudur is the biggest Buddhist temple in the world and it is definitely worth seeing. It is important to get there early, before it gets crowded. And do expect, that locals will ask you to take pictures with them.

Borobudur temple

Meeting the locals :)

After the second breakfast we headed towards Prambanan temple.

We only wish we were hobbits... :-)

The view of Prambanan was spectacular. Prambanan is the biggest Hindu temple in Indonesia.

Prambanan temple

Greetings from Yogyakarta,

Jerneja & Boris

Museum Bank Indonesia

The center of Jakarta has quite a few museums. By far the most impressive is the Museum Bank Indonesia. The museum was opened by Bank Indonesia in 2009. When visiting the museum you will see how the history of banking developed in Indonesia. The banking system was implemented and managed by the Dutch and it all started by trading with spices.

Greetings from Jakarta,

Jerneja & Boris

Jakarta history museum

Since we had some more time, we decided to visit the history museum in Jakarta as well. The museum is full of art, history and old furniture, inspired by Dutch influence.

Regards from Jakarta,

Jerneja & Boris