Dinner and Doxy
Posted by marshall Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:32:26 GMT
Tonight we went out for dinner at a "coffee shop" -- which was more of a restaurant -- with Reza and David, another of our guards. The building was in a traditional style with wood floors and a woven bamboo ceiling. Very beautiful. We had nasi goreng, mie goreng, and a variation on a Chinese omelette. Reza and David ordered a couple of baskets of french fries, which they dipped in hot sauce. I think the whole meal for the table came to six dollars, which included five plates of food, two baskets of fries, three juices, three coffees, and a Coke.
In many of the rice and noodle dishes there are one or two little green peppers. These things are tiny, highly compressed, portable combination gasoline tank and lit match for your mouth. I accidentally ate one (two?) tonight, and I thought I was going to breathe flame. The Indonesian guys at the table just laughed as the silly American went through all of his mango juice, water, and coffee in seconds, trying to soothe the pain.
After dinner we stopped at a local drugstore to pick up some more Doxycycline, the anti-malaria medication that MAF recommends for Indonesia. I got three 10-packs for a total of 12,000 rupiah, or roughly $1.30. That's just a little over four cents a pill. Amazing.
