Once in the airport, we checked our luggage and head to security.
Right near the security area were a bunch of restaurants - one of them was a sate chain that we had seen all over the place, so we decided to give it a try.
Inside, it's nicely decorated, including an area with these puppets for wayang kulit - or shadow puppets which we had seen in Jogjakarta:
We had some kangkung (water spinach)
Chicken sate with peanut sauce and sweet soy sauce
Goat sate in sweet soy sauce - this was interesting - there was the standard cubed meat sate but also a minced goat sate - we had seen this in Bali, called sate lilit but this one was snappy - like it was in a sausage casing. It was delicious!
All washed down with some fresh squeezed lime juice
Security people move around on Segways and other hoverboard type things:
Earlier, I had not-intelligently decided that I should bring the cobek/ulekan on the plane as a carry-on to try to minimize damage. So, we got two heavy cloth grocery bags from the supermarket (we already had one from our first fruit purchase) so I could double bag it to hold the weight, I wrapped the cobek and ulekan in lots of newspaper, put a thick layer of socks in the bottom of the bag, then the cobek and ulekan surrounded by more clothes so it wouldn't want to slide around in the bag. Of course, security wasn't happy that I was trying to bring 2 heavy blunt objects on the plane and made us go out of the security area to check it in. Luckily, right next to our airline's check in area was a guy stretch-wrapping luggage. I asked if he had a small box and after looking around, he found one, and we lowered the bag in which happened to fit perfectly. He then wrapped the whole thing up, creating a handle and all and completely embalmed it. All for 80,000IDR or about $5.
Getting into the security area, you pass a nice plant display
Lots of Indonesian travelers were posing in front of it for their photo. It's no Singapore Changi airport, but the new Terminal 3 in Jakarta is pretty nice.
Our flight left on time (love you Singapore Airlines) and we had a couple hours in the Singapore airport transit area - I visited my favorite (but abhorrently expensive) tea shop, TWG to pick up some tea to hold me until Xmas time when I can get back there again. Even though they fed us on the 1h15m flight, I got a little snack while we waited for the long flight home.
One crab and one shrimp nugget on a stick.
Crab nugget.
Singapore Airlines fed us well on the very long flight home and then finally....
Home sweet home, landing at dawn (on time).
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