No pork served, we're Muslims

Even though Bali is one great place to spend a vacation, we found it was not an easy task to indulge ourselves in pork, let alone the famous lawar, one of the Balinese delicacies.

Feeling famished after touring the beautiful Bedugul, we, my three nephews and I, went straight to Mentari restaurant for a buffet lunch. When I asked the waiter if pork was available, he just smirked as if I was some kind of freak or something, and said, "Well Sir, I am sorry we do not have any pork here because we have many Muslim regulars here".

Look here we are on the island of Bali, not in Aceh. Did I say something wrong? To make things worse, another waiter then told me that if I was traveling with a certain tour group, then I should take a corner seat. For the information of the readers one of my nephews and I are relatively large which makes us relatively noticeable.

Despite all that we still love Bali and still want to visit Bedugul.

ALBERTO PRAMONO, Jakarta