Tina had corrected me on my last post. Apparently a Jiggs dinner consists of potatoes, carrots, turnips that’s boiled with salt beef. The dinner we had was a baked dinner, but it had a jiggs dinner with it. Confusing? I know I am!
Over the weekend we had tried out the Bali Indonesian Restaurant in Calgary. Never have had Indonesian food before, (other than the soto ayam that my roommate made for me) it was quite exciting. We had ordered the bali platter (spring rolls, triangular spring rolls and croquettes), soto ayam (chicken soup), mee goreng (fried noodles), and the rendang (coconut beef stew).
It was definitely an experience going there. The service was really good and the owner who was our waiter had explained what everything was. The food was mediocre. Though there was a lot of similarities to Thai and Malaysian food, there was quite a bit of spices used in comparison. (Spices were stronger, not hotter). The soto ayam was overly salted and was our least favourite. The spring rolls we felt could have been cooked a little longer.
And everything else was tasty but definitely not our favourite.
I guess the real question is, what does really good Indonesian food taste like? I’m not entirely sure, other than that it’s no Banana Leaf! I know I know, I can’t compare Malaysian with Indonesian, but all I know is banana leaf is uber tasty and totally eye rolling!
I’d rate the restaurant 3/5. The restaurant does get thumbs up for the guava juice. Yum!
