Ramadan starts and the food courts are empty. My Actifit Report Card: February 19 2026

Well, I think I've hit a lot of the malls in Surabaya. Ciputra mall. Pakuwon Mall. Pakuwon City mall (not the same). Tunjungan mall. Today was Galaxy Mall.

Yeah, I don't really care for malls but if I don't get my wife out of the hotel room she goes stir crazy and gets upset. Mall it was.

What did I see? Well, as you can see above my wife shrunk. Haha. Not really but she liked how the picture turned out. :)

A couple things made an impression at the mall though. First it was big and bright like other malls in Surabaya. My wife wondered why we didn't have malls like that in Canada and I had to tell her: easy, our "city" has 200,000 people. Surabaya has 3,500,000 people that's over 15x bigger so they can make bigger malls.

What else struck me about the mall? Well, the food court was really really empty.

Some of the food booths had no-one operating them. Other food booths had someone operating them but there were no customers. I was curious at first then realized that today was the first day of Ramadan. Since Indonesia has a huge portion of Muslim people they would all be fasting.

For that reason I figured that I should probably wait until after 6pm to eat. Yes, I'm Christian and am under no fasting restriction but I would rather not be the only person eating.

As a side note on that topic...

I found the eastern campus of the Christian church I have been going to in Indonesia. It was located on the 4th floor of the Galaxy mall ... Much easier to find here than at Pakuwon Mall :)

When the fasting was over? Time for food!

Yum.

Okay, it really isn't diet food but I really wanted a burger :)

As an amusing aside?

I saw the biggest noodle section in a store that I've ever seen.

I was like wow, so many noodles. I took a video but I've never actually gotten them to work on Actifit :(

(Yes I uploaded it, yes I watched it to verify once I uploaded but it doesn't show up on my video's I can't post :( )

We caught a grab home and watched a video after all that. We got the oldest Grab driver in Surabaya. Well, maybe not... But he seemed to want to drive the whole trip in second gear and I don't think he ever actually got over 30km/h and I was watching everyone pass us.

Then again, it was a short drive so I wasn't too worried :)

Why didn't I go out to explore?

It was super rainy and miserable today.

And that's how I got almost 20K steps. Treatmill at the hotel and 5 hours wandering around a gigantic mall after that :)

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