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FAT TURTLE - GETTING FAT ON PANCAKES

Another little gem in Seminyak  is The Fat Turtle. This one’s popular for its Red Velvet Pancakes. So on our last day at Bali, before we took our flight back home, we decided to sample these. As it turns out, this one too knocked it out of the park. Seminyak for us turned out to be a fantastic place to savour food, and The Fat Turtle was like the icing on the cake. The Red Velvet Pancakes were the right amount of sweet, and not overdone. A vanilla bean ice cream, with a honeycomb crumble adorned the plate. Add cream cheese mousse and chocolate soil, and you’d know we are talking of a seriously sinful pancake. We hadn’t finished a plate as fast we did with that. It was YUM. We also sampled their Kaffir Lime Leaf Sweet Corn Fritters with bacon and avocado hollandaise and Brekky Pasta with spaghetti in a creamy mushroom sauce with crumbled poached eggs (Verdict = Alright). While we took our time with that, we also took in the place, the vintage décor, the simplicity of the place, the chalkboard written menu, and that quirky name. That summed up what Seminyak was all about. And Bali too. It’s a lazy place, moves at its own pace, and is rich on some of the best food you’d have. In short, when you come here, you too become a Fat Turtle.