Food
Your package with Nomad Adventure Divers includes all meals. The food here is good, wholesome, home-cooked fare with a very nice mixture of dishes, making you feel as if you're staying at your best friend's family home where all the grandmothers, mothers and aunts are on a mission to feed you.
Free flow
The "free flow table"
Meals are served buffet-style in the common dining/lounge area. This is a nice breezy area at the front of the resort with a view of the sea.
The resort tries to ensure that all guests sit together at the same table, and the last time we went, Sandra and Josef (who used to run the resort), hosted every meal. This makes for very enjoyable dining, because the company is always lively, friendly and everyone is friends with everyone else (because this is not a place where lady guests dress in heels and have "I will complain" written on their forehead!). You'll spend hours chatting and laughing at the dinner table, and sometimes it'll be 11pm before you realise it.
For breakfast, there was always eggs, Asian-style fried noodles or rice, and bread (which you can toast) with an assortment of spreads including butter, strawberry jam, marmalade, peanut butter and sometimes chocolate/hazelnut spread.
As for lunch or dinner, the menu changed every day and there were a handful of dishes for each meal, so there's no way I can list out all the dishes we ate. I can only give you a very rough summary and assure you that Asian and Western guests alike would enjoy the food. You really have to go there and eat to understand what I mean.
At the buffet table there were dishes like salad, rice, pasta, noodles, soup, chicken or fish cooked in different ways like stew or stir-fried, and one or two vegetable dishes. For dessert, there was always fruit like bananas, pineapple, papaya, jambu, and mangosteen; and occasionally, there were fried banana fritters and agar-agar.
On the table, there is one jug of iced water with a dash of fresh lime; one jug of orange juice; and sometimes deep-fried tapioca chips (my favourite was sugared while my husband preferred the salted). There are also the usual condiments like salt, soya sauce, Maggi seasoning and about 3 types of chilli sauce. And copious amounts of two-ply hand tissue.
