On our second day at Horas, we had the Famous Horas BBQ fish dinner. It costs Rp 200,000 per person. The owner, Mr. Berend refused to tell us what we are getting for the dinner (there's no listing of dishes in the menu像台湾流行的那种无菜单料理) and told us that we have to accept his companion for this dinner.
All homemade, all organic. Very good organic peanut sauce that suit our Asian tastebud.
The best and smallest crayfish that I've tasted in my life. In fact, I don't think that I can get this back in Singapore or Malaysia. It's so fresh and succulent. According to Mr. Berend, it's still alive 2 hours before our meal in the lake.
BBQ small fish
BBQ big fish
More BBQ fish
BBQ spareribs. Very tender, juicy and well marinated.
BBQ chicken. My favorite BBQ of the night. The meat of kampung chicken tasted ridiculously good!
They served also fried rice but too bad I was really too full to try it.
That night, we had a few hours chat with Mr. Berend. We learnt that he's a Dutch, working his whole life for Deltares, had been living in a few interesting countries like Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, etc. He's being shot twice in his life and he has shot others too. He first visited Tuk Tuk during his business trip with the Dutch government and since then he has fallen for this place.
I guess this trip is quite educational for me.
I learnt the following:
- Batak tribe is the majorities around Lake Toba and Samosir Island, stand at around 6% of Indonesia population. Most of them are Christians.
- Urdu is the national language of Pakistan. (Mr. Berend has stayed at Pakistan for around 15 years and he can speak Urdu)
- There are a lot of oil palm plantations at north Sumantra and the owners are mostly staying at those big houses at Kuala Lumpur or Singapore.
- The workers of the oil palm plantations earn around USD 100 per month.
- Even you have the money, you can't buy a land at Tuk Tuk unless you are married to local Batak people.
- "Horas" means "welcome" in Batak language.
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