A decent choice beside verdant rice fields, this modern restaurant serves ayam (chicken) in more than 20 ways, as well as beef and seafood Indonesian dishes. Sit on the ground in individual pavilions above murky green water, or inside one of two dinning rooms, the smaller with colourful matchstick blinds in place of walls.
Pondok Daun Ubi
Sumba
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