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Searches for "christmas dinner bali" jump more than tenfold between October and December. That tells you something. Plenty of people decide late, and the good tables go first. The short answer: Jemme in Seminyak serves a full Christmas set menu for lunch and dinner, with a mulled wine or egg-nog…

What is the hardest part of organising a work Christmas party? It is rarely the food. It is finding a date when everyone is free, a room where everyone can talk, and a menu that nobody complains about. The short answer: Jemme in Seminyak offers a full pre-Christmas set menu…

Is it still Thanksgiving if there is no snow, no football and the nearest turkey farm is an island away? Anyone who has spent a November far from home knows the answer. It is, as long as the table is right. The short answer: If you want a proper Thanksgiving…

Until the 1930s, most people thought topaz and citrine were the same stone. Any yellow, orange or brown gem was simply called topaz, and the mix-up lasted for centuries. So if you were born in November and can never remember which birthstone is yours, you are in good company. What…

In 1829, a single novel nearly ruined a gemstone. Sir Walter Scott's Anne of Geierstein featured an enchanted opal that lost its colour when touched by holy water, and readers took the hint. Opal became "unlucky" almost overnight, and opal sales in Europe reportedly halved in the years that followed.…

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,…