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<\/a>closed.<\/p>\nFast forward to this Caribbean island that’s closer to South America than North. With its Dutch Indonesian heritage, vowed one of us, there has to be a\u00a0Curacao<\/a> restaurant that serves rijsttafel. She is on a mission and since the Carnival Freedom<\/a> isn’t departing until late evening\u2026rijsttafel for dinner it must be!<\/p>\n And it was.<\/p>\n The restaurant (Tempo Doeloe<\/a>) was a short ride, we are told, and too far to walk. By the time the dinner bell was going to ring, we’d already walked enough of the streets of Willemstad<\/a> to hail a welcome cab. We’d been coached on negotiating the fare. “How much to Tempo Doeloe?”<\/p>\n “Fifteen dollars.”<\/p>\n “How about ten?”<\/p>\n “How about thirteen\u2026and a two-dollar tip?”<\/p>\n We admired the creativity. Fifteen dollars and 20 minutes later, we were the restaurant’s first customers, and only rijsttafel customers. The dinner \u2014 it means “rice table” by the way \u2014 is 15 dishes that you choose from the elaborate Dinner was $34 each, including taxes and tips. It was what we’d remembered from the That meant we weren’t entitled to dessert (family rules)\u2026except that it was included.<\/p>\n Fried bananas, just like the old days.<\/p>\n After returning to the Freedom in a cab ($13 and a $2 tip) and sending appropriate photos to our friends in North America, we were severely chastised for not inviting them but\u00a0 this time we had the perfect excuse.<\/p>\n We were even more geographically undesirable.<\/p>\n Today at\u00a0portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: The latest in cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Royal Caribbean Vision of the Seas WILLEMSTAD, Curacao \u2014 We used to meet friends regularly at an Indonesian restaurant to share a dish called “rijsttafel” until we became geographically undesirable\u2026and the restaurant closed. Fast forward to this Caribbean island that’s closer to South America than North. With its Dutch Indonesian heritage, vowed one of us, there has to be a\u00a0Curacao… Continue reading Curacao Mission Accomplished \u2014 Rijsttafel!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,31,36,15],"tags":[137,154,965,912,72,51,35,1707,26,27,1708,33,1709],"class_list":["post-21634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-freedom","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-curacao","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-restauarants","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-vision-of","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>menu. The servings are small, but a 15-dish meal is still a 15-dish meal and, to make matters more challenging, we ordered a 16th.<\/p>\n<\/a>last time we had rijsttafel with friends, maybe even better, perhaps because it was enhanced by a southern view of the Caribbean Sea, albeit under an overcast sky. Many of the dishes were meaty, many accompanied by rice and few that we knew how to pronounce \u2014 sambel goring oedang, daging smoor, sayer laden, nasi goring \u2014 and we couldn’t get through everything, of course.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>7 nights
\nJanuary 24, 2015
\nTampa<\/a> (return): Roatan<\/a>, Belize<\/a>, Costa Maya<\/a>, Cozumel
\n<\/a>Inside: $554
\nCost per day: $79
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