In Reply to: if it said posted by crowboy on Tuesday, 29. March 2011 at 21:53 Bali Time:
We ate at another place a few doors down and again ordered 1 kilo of squid made into calamari. The difference in what was on the plate between both restaurants was amazing. We both came to the conclusion that someone had their hand on the scales during weigh in. Still we had a wonderful time at both restaurants. Given this was our first ever trip to Bali, you do tend to walk around in a state of bliss even when you know you are being ripped off. :-))
Like the second we walked in to one of the restaurants..."Mr and Mrs stand her for photo with the pretty Balinese lady". We dutifully stood for said photo knowing that at some time in the night, someone would appear to sell it to us. Like clockwork the guy comes up and proudly shows us the most gaudy, garish plate emblazoned with our photo. I had to turn away I was laughing so much. The more I tried to stifle it, the worse I got. I was waiting for something but my imagination couldn't conjure up something as ugly as that plate. Suffice to say we skipped the IDR300,000 plate and opted just for the photo. We're still laughing about more than a week later.
To add insult to injury, husband and I looked like sumo wrestlers next to the gorgeous and overwhelmingly petite Balinese girl. If they want to sell more photo's, pick a bigger girl haha.