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- If you were born in September, or you're shopping for someone who was, you've probably already landed on the answer: the september birthstone is sapphire. That part is easy. What's less obvious is everything sapphire actually covers, because it's a far bigger, stranger and more interesting stone than the single…
- If you've been to enough celebrations in Indonesia, you've seen it: a tall cone of golden-yellow rice, surrounded by a colourful ring of side dishes, usually appearing right at the moment everyone reaches for their phone to take a photo. That's nasi tumpeng, and it's one of the most recognisable,…
- Not every event in Bali needs to feed 200 people. A lot of the best celebrations here happen at a much smaller scale: a birthday dinner in a Seminyak villa, a family lunch to mark a milestone, a small wedding reception with the people who actually matter in the room.…
- Planning an event in Bali usually starts with the fun parts: the guest list, the venue, maybe the playlist. Then you get to the food, and things slow down fast. Bali has hundreds of catering companies, ranging from one-person home kitchens to full-scale event production teams, and the difference between…
- If you've spent any time researching Bali dining, you've probably come across the word "rijsttafel" and wondered what it actually means. It's Dutch for "rice table," and it's not a dish so much as a way of eating: a long table covered in a dozen or more small Indonesian dishes,…
- If you have spent any time in Seminyak in the middle of the day, you already know the problem. The sun is relentless, the pavements radiate heat back at you, and half the restaurants worth visiting are open-air by design, which is lovely in theory and uncomfortable in practice once…
- Search for steak in Bali and you will mostly find beach club grills and Australian-import steakhouses charging Australian-import prices. That is a fine option if a grilled ribeye and an ocean view is exactly what you are after. But if you want steak done properly, without the beach club markup…
- Seminyak does not have a shortage of places to get a cocktail. It has a shortage of places to get a good cocktail without paying beach club prices or standing in a queue for a table with a sunset view you will spend most of the evening fighting a crowd…
- Most restaurants in Seminyak treat wine as an accessory. A short list of a red, a white, and a rosé from whichever distributor delivers cheapest, printed on the back page of the menu almost as an afterthought. If you actually care about what is in your glass, and want it…
- Seminyak after dark has a fairly predictable soundtrack. Beach club DJ sets, house remixes bleeding between venues, and bars competing to be heard over each other along the main strip. It is exactly what a lot of visitors come to Bali for, and there is nothing wrong with it. But…