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.

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? (more…)

Long time ago there was a widow who had a only daughter called Ketimun Mas (Golden Cucumber). She was a young and cute girl of about ten years of age. They lived in the western-most part of the village, close to a forest, called Dauh Yeh. There was a few neighbors who live nearby. Most of them were peasant and traders; and some raised cattle.

One day Golden Cucumber’s mother went to the market to buy food stuff as there was nothing left in the house. Before leaving she said to her daughter, “My dear Golden Cucumber, Mother will go to the market and you stay at home. Mother will buy you pancakes. Please don’t go out, stay inside in the house and lock the door. When someone come don’t open the door, except when Mother come back.”

Golden Cucumber was home alone locking herself inside the house. Suddenly a giant approached the house and called out her name in a heavy and scaring voice. “Golden Cucumber, my dear, Mama has returned home. Please open the door.” The giant spoke imitating her mother is voice. Golden Cucumber was suspicious and she knew that it was not her mother’s voice. Therefore she did not open the door. The giant waited for a long time for the door to open, and since she thought nobody was home she left.

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