Pulau Flores Restaurants

The owners of Camellia restaurant are very nice old Chinese couple. They still speak some Chinese and very aware of their roots. The interiour is very simple, the walls are only decorated with some timetables and unique huge map of Flores island (it's very hard to find any Flores map, even Periplus doesn't bother to publish the map of this island). They cook very quickly and serve very big bowls of food. The fried rice noodles are very good, as well as springrolls and even some green curries. For local people restaurant is quite expensive but it's considered the best in town so sometimes there's no tourista and all seats are occupied by locals.

Favorite Dish: chicken fried noodle

Actually Flores island is not famous for its food. The best thing you can try here is grilled fish on the shore of ocean in fishing kampong. ))) But after a few weeks in Flores the foood in Gardena seems delicious especially its hotplate dishes. They cook tuna, steak, fish fillet and sometimes barracuda on the hotplate and serve it with nicely cooked vegetables, onions and tomatoes. The huge sizzling hotplate with a fresh fish costs only 2,5 USD!

Favorite Dish: Tuna hotplate