"Surprise" Birthday Celebration at Terazo, Bali

The dinner of Day 3 was the surprise birthday celebration for my husband. I had planned that before come to Bali. I do research on web for restaurant with nice food and nice ambience nearby Ubud.

After a few search I found this website: http://www.baligoodfood.com/. It got 5 restaurants under this group. After browse through I chose Terazo Restaurant, which I found it with nice ambience and good review from Trip Advisor too. Without second thought, I email them to make reservation, and make a special request to have Tiramisu + candle as my hubby birthday cake.

When we reached the restaurant, I felt quite satisfied because the restaurant is really nice decorated, just exactly the same as I saw from their website. They arranged us to have the upstairs seats because I request to have more privacy. The waitress is friendly as well, and had a great patient to guide us through food ordering.

While waiting for the food to be served, we took a few photos around the restaurant.




After a while, the food served. This is part of the foods we ordered, which I have forgotten their name and price:


After we finished our food, I hinted the waitress it’s time to serve dessert. Without long wait, all the waiter and waitress started to sing birthday song from downstairs while serving Tiramisu. They sing also the Indonesian birthday song.



My husband felt really surprise and kept laughing. He happily accepts our blessing and blow off the candle. He thanks me for arranged a surprise celebration for him and made it a memorable birthday for him.

By the time we leave, I show my husband a note on the whiteboard next to the washroom. He didn’t realized it while he went washroom with me, neither my sis-in-law.

Thanks to Terazo to make this surprise a real surprise!!

Chinese Valentine's Dinner at Tony Roma

This year, my hubby and I had early Valentine’s celebration. We decided to have dinner on 9th Feb (Chap Goh Mei) - Chinese Valentine’s Day. The reason was he will be going to Bangkok for one month job attachment starting from 10th Feb, and not able to celebrate Valentine’s Day with me.

Since I love “meats” and “ribs”, my hubby decided to bring me to Tony Roma. He tried this restaurant with his friend before and he thinks its worth to dine at there again. Of cause I agreed with him since I’ve been longing to try out this restaurant also!

Tony Roma has a few branches around Klang Valley : The curve, The garden and Sunway pyramid. We choose to dine at the nearest branch at The Garden. The advantage of having an early celebration is no reservation required, no traffic jam and lots of parking bay available! We walked in and make our own choice of seats, since its Monday and there are a lot of vacant seats.

I look at the Menu for a few minutes, and decided to give up. I think the fastest way to order is to get the waiter’s help. Indeed, within few minutes we decided to follow the waiter’s recommendation and ordered one bowl of soup, one starter, one main course and one cup of free-flow juice. It sounds too little for me, and I’m thinking to add on another main course later.

Here is what we ordered:

Soup:

Baked Potato Soup
Topped with grated cheddar cheese, bacon and chives.

I can’t resist on cheese and bacon... it’s a really fast decision for soup..

Starter:

Onion Loaf
Giant hand-cut Spanish onions, breaded, deep fried and served with our house BBQ dipping sauce

There are two types of serving size: Full @ RM19.90 and Half @ RM16.90. My hubby intended to go for full since it’s only RM3.00 different. (My hubby is always good in calculation) However, the waiter advised us to take Half Loaf instead, because we have only 2 persons and full loaf will be too much for us. After consider sparing our stomach for main course, we ordered Half loaf as recommended.

Main Course:

Roma Rack
3 pieces of Beef ribs with 2 choices of side dish

Again, now is the choice between Roma Rack @ RM49.90 and Full Rack @ RM69.90. The waiter recommended us to take Roma Rack which consist of 3 pieces of beef ribs. Even though I think 3 pieces are too little for both of us (people who knows me will understand this, I’m definitely not a small eater), however, looking at the sincerity of the waiter, I decided to follow what his recommended. (Actually I’m thinking to try other main course if really not enough later on..hehe..)

They served us a small piece of French Bun with garlic butter in short while.
Then follow by Free-flow mango juice.

After few seconds, here come the baked potato soup.. This is the best soup I ever try… even it’s a bit salty, but it’s thick enough and smell and taste really nice. I’m satisfied with the generous amount of bacon also.

The Onion Loaf served few minutes later.. It tastes exactly like Onion rings except it stick together, and you need to separate it out before put into your mouth. I start to feel full, after finish the half of the Half Onion Loaf!! I decided to stop because I still want to enjoy our main course – The ribs…

Finally, here comes the Roma Rack… It looks so crispy and delicious. It was really awesome - a little crispy on the outside, but the meat was still soft enough to come off the bones easily. They are prepared with some special red sauce that tastes nice with meats… After finish one piece, I surrender myself; too full… and let my hubby had the other 2 pieces. My stomach got no more rooms for other main course and dessert! And we still got 2 side dishes, half bowl of soup and half of half loaf onion! This rarely happened to me as I have the well-known bottomless stomach!

Lastly, we requested the waiter to help us “tapao” the Onion loaf and fries, and asked for bills. The total bill cost us RM85, and the waiter told us to vote for him online by providing the bill number, if we think his service is good. He told us he can get a reward if he been vote as the best service staff of the month.

Here I would like to take opportunity to say sorry to the waiter, I do think that he provided us a good service, but I can’t vote for him, because I misplaced the bill. By the way, I think this kind of competition is really good to motivate the staff to perform, at the same time to build up company reputation by provide good service to customer.

My Valentine's Celebration

This year I have a very special Valentine's celebration.. I'm not celebrating with my hubby, but with my best friend - Shelyn ! My hubby and her bf was away to Thailand for works, and we two lonely ladies, decided to make it a special day for ourselves..

Before we decide on what to do on this day, Shelyn asked me: "What are the things you can't do with your hubby?" Without a second thought, I replied: " Sing K lor.. my hubby doesn't like to sing." Hmm.. it's truth, but this is not a special things to do on this special day.. After that I told Shelyn: " Why don't we pamper ourselves with Spa treatment on that day? and we can go shopping as well.." "Ya," this time Shelyn reply spontaneously, "I can't shopping with Don"..

So, it's decided, and later on Shelyn sent me a link to Jojoba promotion, RM260++ for Valentine spa package for 2 pax, and asked me to call for reservatation.

I called to reserve the package on 14th Feb, 2pm. I asked the receptionist whether it's located at Times Square, she answered me yes. She confirmed my booking and told us the price will be RM299 for non-member. I then confirmed with shelyn that booking done, without notice that I've actually done something wrong.

On Valentine's day, I'm so happy and reached Times Square on 1:20pm. Shelyn was late because it's crowded and hard to get carpark in Times Square. Lastly she able to reach on 2pm and we proceed to Jojaba Spa located at Level 15 of Times Square Hotel.

After we reach, we told the receiptionist that we have reservation on 2pm, but they are not able to find our record in their list. They told me i might call to the wrong branch for booking as many peoples done the same mistake. Honestly, I about to get angry and going to show them my black face, because I'm so confident that I called the correct branch, and think that they don't admit their mistake. I show them the number that I call, very confidently, and then so embarass that that lady told me i actually called to Rimba Spa at Royale Bintang ! I was like "Har? Really? Die lor".. coz i would have let Shelyn down, and we can't enjoy our Spa, because it's too late to rush to Royale Bintang ..

Luckily the lady is nice, she then told us we can go for another package but not the Valentine package because the room with shower facility are occupied. She then recommend us Jojoba Ultimate which cost RM280+ per pax. However, it's over our budget. After seeing us in a pity face, the lady went to her manager and come back to us with a good news. They agree to offer us for RM299++ for 2 pax for the Jojoba Ultimate package. That's nice! Shelyn and I agree and proceed to the treatment.

Our treatment first start with Ear Candle treatment, together with shoulder and ear massage. I felt so comfortable and felt asleep. I don't really know what the therapist did, just noticed she put a candle into my ear, and massage my shoulder and arround my ear.

This is what i found from web, some details on ear candle treatment:

"How do ear candles work?
The healing properties of the Hopi ear candle has its foundation in two primary physical actions. First, the slight pressure created inside the ear candle, and the vibration of the rising air column, serve to gently massage the ear drum and promote secretion in the frontal and paranasal sinuses. This has an immediate effect of regulating ear pressure. Users often describe a soothing, light sensation in the ear/head area. Second, the locally applied warmth stimulates vascularization, invigorates the immune system, and reinforces the flow of lymph.
Ear candles users often report successful treatment of nose and throat congestion, sinusitis (or other sinus problems), headaches, T.M.J. pain, tinnitus earaches, and swimmers ear. Most day spas and other relaxation professionals will offer ear candling, because ear candles are an ideal relaxation treatment for stress or anxiety related symptoms. Ear candles, generally speaking, tend to soften earwax for easy removal At the same time, important acupuncture points and reflex zones are stimulated, causing further relaxation of the muscles in and around the ear, which can also help the ear and sinuses to open up."

After the ear candle treatment, we continue with Aromatherapy massage. The therapist massage technique is really good, even better than Thai massage i did at Phuket. I was so comfortable and sleep again, until she woke me up and ask would I allow for breast massage. I agree and then they continue for the breast massage.

After massage here come Aroma eye pillow treatment. After that it end with facial and mask treatment. The 120 mins treatment ended with a fresh and awaken me, I'm quite satisfied with this treatment. While waiting for Shelyn for changing her clothes, the therapist showed me my ear wax from the ear candle treatment.. Wah, it was a lot, and I really don't know when they collected that.

We walked out from the room and took a few photo:

Me and Shelyn

Nice ambience

Time to pay, it cost us RM343.85 after added tax for 2 pax. I think it's worth for the treatment and service we received. Another good things is they didn't waste our time by doing their marketing to persuade us to join as member. I will definitely make Jojoba my choice for next Spa treatment.