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Day 4
Got 2.5 hours of sleep, because we were off to Amsterdam. 0750 flight, which means getting to the airport by 0550, which means a taxi pickup at 0500. Fortunately Laura and i did most of our packing after getting back from the beer bar, but that only shifted the sleep back 45 minutes, it didn't help us sleep any more.
Also given that it was Saturday morning there were still many youths out n about after partying Friday night. In fact at some point in the early morning b(though the sun would imply it wat mid day) a pair of young women made their way into the courtyard of the building we were staying at for a few minutes of some activity that was too private to undertake on the street. What they were doing I am not sure, but they selected a spot seemingly right under our window.
Anyways getting to Amsterdam was uneventful. Between the flight time, and he time change it was 1330. Decided to take the bus into the city center, Anto eat up time so we could make it right into the Airbnb, and B. to same a little money. But the ticket machine didn't like our Uber Visa card, nor that of my parents, uh oh, the kiosk wanted a PIN. We're from the United States, we aren't concerned about identity fraud, or people stealing our credit cards... fortunately our reliable Capital One Quick silver card worked.
We purchased a set of 3 day passes and hopped the bus. Easily enough we were getting off at the end of the line, the bus station.
Few hundred meters into the neighborhood, on a side street we found our Airbnb host, who took us around the corner into a side street of a side street and showed us the place. Is great, she even showed us stuff to do, and gave us food recommendations, including an Indonesian restaurant anfew blocks away. Which is great because I was looking forward to exploring the food of Dutch colonies.
So we went out to a cafe to waste enough time for the Indonesian restaurant to open. Laura curated the experience, I just had a very fresh cup of ginger-lemon tea, and my dad had an espresso. After enough time passed we headed to Long Pura.
http://www.restaurant-longpura.com/
Everything we had was amazing, and a welcome change up from the Icelandic food we had been having. Lots of "exotic" flavors. After we ordered but before our food arrived our waiter tried upselling us on Kuruk/Emping chips. To be honest I didn't hear or understand what he said but I remember the last time someone tried upselling us on and appetizer and it went great (see Singapore posts
The chips arrived with a thick peanut sauce that was a great way to start our gastronomic experience.
The satay sampler platter, goat, chicken, beef and ground fish. All were great, there was a spicy sauce that the beef got draped in which pished it to my favorite of the list.
We got the rice platter too, it was effectively a sampler of the whole menu. There was a spicy beef, a coconut beef, a coconut chicken, coconut goat, a spicy hard boiled egg, adish of steamed veggies, there were more of the chicken satay as well. We also ordered an eggplant dish was was very good.
We ended the meal with an Indonesian style creme brulee, which was as good as creme brulee, but honestly nothing special, and my parents split a coconut crepe that was certainly interesting.
The dinner experience took several hours, and was far less expensive than Iceland was. Ultimately we just toddled home and went to sleep shortly thereafter.
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