Going Local In Manado
By Lothar. Filed in Indonesia |
Our Hotel Sahid Kawanua in Manado, on the island of Sulawesi, is the only dirty place we stayed at in South East Asia. The bed sheets are gray with stains and holes, the towels are more black than white and the bathroom faucets are falling apart. We fix the broken toilet flushing chain a couple of times. We are the only guests for a late dinner in the hotel’s restaurant. I order a tuna sandwich and am surprised when the waitress brings me a whole fish on a roll. Don’t they know that tuna is supposed to come out of a can, so that I do not recognize it as a fish! Gabi ends up eating my dinner.At least the dinner only costs us 3 USD per person.
For breakfast, we admire a large Asian food buffet with more fish and food that I do not know. Gabi miraculously still has some cereal packages in her suitcase, and all we need is some hot water for our nutritious breakfast. We are the only Non-Asian guests, drinking our own Nescafe and eating our cereal versus soups, rice and fish for breakfast. It shows how difficult it is for me to try unknown food items early in the morning! I am calling our next hotel, the island resort on Siladen and arrange for an early transfer to the island. Lunch will be in the international resort!