Mak Beng: A menu with Thousands Customers

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Armed 12 employees, 28 wood chairs, 6 tables, and modest building Mak Beng will serve your lunch. This restaurant is never visited by only few customers. Approximately 12.00 pm it will be flocked by the people who want to have lunch. No chair is left!

“Mak Beng” is a well-known restaurant that serves you just one set menu. A plate of rice, a hunk of fish completed with hot spicy sauce, and a bowl of fish soup are enough to satisfy the hungery people. With only Rp 22.000 to spend you can taste this Balinese cuisine that sometimes oblige people to stand, waiting for their turn to sit and enjoy their long-waited meals.

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Even when you have got your seat, it sometimes takes 30 minutes even more than it. “I have been waiting here for 1 hour, where is my order?” complained a customer. And the waitress answered that the soup was been cooking and asked the customer to wait. Another customer asked her to serve himself only by a hunk of fried fish and rice. Well, restaurant that has many customers should keep the customers comfortable, is not it?

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However “Mak Beng” usually serves their customer as soon as possible. 10 minutes is nothing to taste a menu that has many fans

Ok one set menu has come. What should you try first, the fried fish or fish soup? If I were you, I will take my spoon and try the yellow soup with a little hunk of fish and some slices of cucumber. The soup is really good to open the lunch. “Mak Beng” use Balinese spices to make it so that the soup is not fishy smell. When you try the fried fish then, it is better using hand than spoon. Try it! “Mak Beng” uses various fish everyday, skipjack tuna for example.

Something common that always do by people who have lunch at there is they wipe off their sweat using back of the hand. Then they slurp the cold drink. The hot spicy sauce, which is the magnum opus of Mak Beng dishes, makes them do that. Mak beng sauce is made with a secret traditional recipe that only Mak Beng and her son know how to cook it.

Perfect? Well since de gustibus no es disputandum, some said “Mak Beng” serves delicious food but others do not agree. “Not really special, I think,” said Pramaiswari. So if this is true, why do so many people stand to have their turn to get having meals at there? Wanna prove it? Just drive your vehicle to the Sanur beach which is closest to the Dunkin Dounut. “Mak Beng” is in the end of the road. Mak Beng opens from 8.30pm until 5.00 am. “Yes, we always close at 5.00 am because our fish have been sold out on that time,” said one of the waitresses.

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