SDQ Food
SDQ-Style Dining
Your package with SDQ resort includes all meals. The food here is very tasty. It's good, wholesome, home-cooked fare. Portions are just enough so that you're adequately nourished for diving without feeling bloated or sinking like lead. If you're used to American-sized portions though, you might want to bring along your own additional snacks.
Meals are served in the common dining/lounge area. It's a nice breezy area where you can sit and update your dive logs, browse through the very useful marine-life books they have there, or play with the two resident dogs Pino and BeeGee. You're encouraged to leave your slippers at the entrance to minimise the amount of sand that goes in.
During mealtimes, it's generally free-seating, but you basically take the cue from wherever the staff lays out the food. Pino also likes to sit under your chair or table while you eat, so be careful where you place your feet, and when you push out your chair to get up.
Free flow:
SDQ's Dining Pavilion
SDQ's Christmas Tree started my personal hobby of looking out for Christmas Trees at dive resorts
Look out for Pino under your chair!
Breakfast (omelette)
Lunch (club sandwich, fries and salad)
Dinner (rice, chicken, soup, fruit and smoothie)
For breakfast and items like soup, sandwiches and french fries, the cookhouse dishes out individual portions for every guest. So, for example, you sit down for breakfast, and in front of you is your portion of breakfast served on a plate. Everything else like the rice, dishes and dessert, will be on a serving dish at your table all at once, and you help yourself. You can finish all the food at your table, because the guests sitting elsewhere will be served their portions at their table.
You help yourself to the cutlery, soya sauce (dark, light and kicap manis), ketchup, chilli sauce and serviettes, most of which are on each table.
All the food is thoughtfully covered with clingwrap until you're ready to eat it.
If you're not at the dining area by the time the food is served (and sometimes you won't because of Indonesia's rubber-band time), one of the resort staff will knock on your door to tell you it's chow-time.
Food is only available at mealtimes. Breakfast is served around 7.30am, lunch almost immediately after you come back from your morning dive, and dinner depending on whether you do a night dive or mandarin (evening) dive. The timing of your meals varies, and depends on your dives and the number of guests in the resort.
The menu changes every day so you're rarely served the same thing twice unless you're a long-stayer. Here's a sample of what we ate during our 5-night stay:
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
