00:00Hi Valley Interiors, I'm Nicky and I'm Carlos. Welcome to Motel Mexicola, Changu.
00:07Come on take a peek in on your restaurant.
00:30We are now here in Motel Mexicola, Changu. This is our second baby. Our first baby was born 10 years
00:37ago.
00:38It's a big baba and it's located in Seminyak. For this adventure we have decided to take it a
00:44little bit further south of Mexico. It's more tropical, the beach, the coconuts, pineapples,
00:52great food, really fresh food. So they brought me in, we've known each other for more than 20 years,
00:58in Playa del Carmen, when it used to be the tip of the iceberg. It's the hip. Yeah, hipest of
01:05all.
01:06And then well we got together again to make some magic happen here. That's when we created
01:12what you call a Changu.
01:17So we have a few areas. This is what we call Taqueria because it's right by our kitchen pass.
01:24So we get our little tacos around here. We're right close to the street.
01:27Just full of details. Just bringing some of the original Mexicola DNA, but giving it, you know,
01:36that tropical punch, giving it that pink and that yellow. Just these beautiful ideas that Miss Nicolasa
01:43has, you know, transponded onto us and that we are bringing down here.
01:52Okay guys, this is where most of the action takes part. You know, you see it now for dining,
01:58but as the tequila comes out, these tables go out and this is all dancing. We have our DJ and
02:04our little
02:04puppet over there. And sometimes we have a live band as well. So you're sure you love it. We have
02:11our
02:11taqueria over on there, which is the kitchen. And we have our peep on that side there. I'll be sure
02:17to show
02:17you some of that as well.
02:21Why a Mexican restaurant in Bali?
02:24Simulators between Mexico and Bali are great.
02:27Phenomenal, especially in this island where we, they celebrate and eat pig, right?
02:33In our roots in Mexico as well, especially the South Park. Pig is celebrated. It's delicious.
02:39But we will show you a little bit of the history of the kitchen.
02:42So where this, what you see in here is where all the friends and family gather to have a big
02:48feast.
02:49And not only that, you come alive. There is something in there, in the love of the food,
02:55in the drinks that they put into you, that you will have the time of your life and you can
03:01quote me on that one.
03:14If you're traveling solo, you will never be solo. This is perfectly the spot for you to mingle.
03:20Shots get surveyed in a beautiful bar. Carlos is going to take you through the story.
03:25This is exactly what it feels when you're in a holiday, in a Mexican holiday.
03:34So we have some really good design cues that we've got here. It's like, I call it the high and
03:40low.
03:40You know, we have a very high end marble, green marble that reminds us of that Mexico from that,
03:46you know, rich 60s, 70s there. And we also have that brick that reminds us of the Mexican town and
03:54that, you know, that low, you know, how can something with some simple and so such low cost become
04:00something so beautiful. So we have a mixture of them both. And then we have a little old to the
04:05Mayan calendar that we did on top here. So we managed to get these sculptures made in fiberglass and
04:12been illuminated. And these are all the Mayan signs. This is the star. That is the moon. That is the
04:19monkey.
04:19And this is like the whole Mayan zodiac. And so we created this kind of ambience. And it looks great
04:25at night. You have to come and see this at night.
04:38This is our Mayan shrine, very distinctly from Hotel Mexicola. Seminyan has his own. Our sign for this
04:46adventure, this is a very particular thing that we want to take you into a journey. This here you see,
04:54dogs are sacred in the Mayan culture. The dog animal is a spiritual animal that takes you to paradise.
05:00Through this gate, you eventually gonna enter to what we are portraying here, which is the garden
05:08of paradise. And that is where the artwork is gonna go. Pop! It will be the best and most beautiful
05:15garden
05:16we ever had. We would like to take you to our booth area. This booth area is really, really fun.
05:24It's when you really want to feel very important. High heels, purse, tequila!
05:41This is a very, very comfortable area. Really fun as well. We've got the wiggle chairs. All face the
05:48colors, blue, the pinky. Just like in the south of Mexico, there's a lot of pastel colors. We got the
05:55beautiful lounges with the confetti pattern that carefully grasped by Carlos because he wanted to
06:02create a bit of festivo. You got the lights over here, the lamps that he loved and a little bit
06:07of a
06:08star. The mirrors are spectacularly and they've been there like they look like they've been there for a
06:14very long time. Neons represents a little bit of the 60s era. The whole Motel Mexicola is based on
06:22three eras of Mexico. The glorious time in Mexico. But Carlos is going to explain you this.
06:27Okay, so when we started dreaming this place up, we thought of three very important eras in Mexico.
06:34We talked about the pre-Columbian era, which is the Mayan and the Aztec and the Olmec. But we did
06:39a lot
06:39of hints to the Mayan because we're talking about southern Mexico here. Then we have the colonial era,
06:45which is all the haciendas, all of the arches. You'll see some of those examples around. And then the last
06:50era that we scaled upon is the golden beach times of Mexico. Not just Acapulco, but also Cancun and
07:00the beginning of these crazy, fantastic eras full of color, full of parties, stars from all over the
07:06world were coming. And that really put Mexico on the map since, you know, 60s and 70s. So you'll see
07:13a little bit of that. The pre-Columbian, the colonial, and just the hip 60s, 70s party time.
07:21Through this neon paradise, we go back to fruteria, what I believe to be the real estate area. It's
07:33beautiful breeze, ocean views. Believe it or not, we got a little bit of ocean. And this is where people
07:40really like to be outdoors. This is the outdoor. It's really fun. It's high energy. People wait here
07:47for a table. People get some drinks before your dinner. This is the place to finish. This is the
07:52place where people want to come and, you know, feel like it's splitting into the street. This is where
07:58you get all the fresh products of Bali. Again, like we mentioned before, there's similarities in between
08:04this island and my home in Mexico.
08:18Well, so like I've come, where I live is in Akumal, Mexico, which is in the Yucatan Peninsula.
08:25Now there we have a special kind of suckling pig we call cochinita. Also here in Bali, they are very
08:33fans of the suckling pig. It's called the Babiguli. So we have like all of these just matching ideas
08:41of Mexico and Bali, and you're trying to bring them up to life. So this is our PIV station that
08:49we created here. It's reminiscent of a Mexican hacienda. And so we have some of the magic is
08:54being made inside. So we'll have to show you some of that in a little while.
09:11I want to introduce you to our Lady of Guadalupe, the mother of Mexico and the mother of Las Americas.
09:19She's a patron saint and keeper of all of the Americas. She was a miracle. She appeared in Mexico.
09:26And I got this. It's a copy of the original and it was blessed by the Bishop of La Villa
09:34in Mexico.
09:35And we brought her directly to bless. And his name is Carlos. How coincidence.
09:39His name is Carlos the priest. The priest that blessed his virgin.
09:50Okay, so we have a little bit more of an experience for you guys. We did a mixture
09:54of some of the tiles that are, you know, that we also have in Mexico and we also have in
09:59Bali. We
10:00have these hand painted, uh, wash faces. We have these old school tabs. And then we did this cute
10:07neon neon to go around it and the colors and the matching just as well. It's got that whole Mexico
10:14called DNA. It's brought in like a nucleus just for the rest of the room. So you have to try
10:20those too.
10:32Shalom, Nicolás speaking. Ricardo Moltealban reservation for tonight? Certainly sir. Two people,
10:41see you here tonight.
11:11Shalom, Nicolás speaking.
11:20Gracias Bali Interiors for taking a peek at our new restaurant.
11:24Muchas, muchas gracias. And see you tonight.
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