Friday, February 20, 2009

Jan 28-30th 2009: Jakarta - Bandung Visit


On the last Chinese New Year, some of us went home to our home country and get excited with how our lovely home country which known as the 4th place of the coffee exporter world wide.

Because of the limited time, we listed out the place that we gonna visit. We have listed down 3 coffee houses that we visit over at Jakarta and Bandung

Here are some picture and from our very own comment.

1. Crema
City: Jakarta, Indonesia

Location: Mega Kuningan

Menu: Coffee, Tea, Wine and Cakes

Ordered: Espresso, Cappucino, Strawbery Cake

Price: Premium

Environment: Nice place to hang out over the tea time.

Comments: Maybe because of its location, the price is just a bit higher than expected on Jakarta. The espresso taste very acidic, but not very bitter. Good to have it with the sweet cake. For the Cappucino, nothing special, and the taste is more on the milk rather than the coffee inside.





















2. Newspaper Coffee House
City: Bandung, Indonesia

Location: Paris van Java

Menu: Coffee, soft-drink, cakes

Ordered: Espresso, Cafe Latte

Price: Medium

Environment: A little bit not comfort for hang out, because of the place bit dark and looks dusty. But as their concept is newspaper, the decoration is match with the concept. Have a good location in Bandung where lots of coffee house took place.

Comment: Espresso taste bitter, not very acidic. Caffee Late taste weird which can not taste the coffee at all.




3. Caswell's Coffee
City: Jakarta, Indonesia

Location: Kemang

Menu: Coffee, Tea, Cakes, Sandwiches

Ordered: Single Origin Aceh Gayo Coffee, Single Origin PNG coffee

Price: Medium

Environment: The one we went is not the coffee house, but more like the warehouse and Barista Training Centre. But they do serve coffee there. The concept their have on this place is more into the professionalism coffee tasting place. The place looks like a living room, so it feels like tasting coffee at home.

Comment: Aceh Gayo taste nice, It mild and the medium body really hit with ASIAN taste. And since this is an Indonesian coffee, the aroma is earthy. This is a good coffee.
PNG Bunom, have a full body with the a little sweet aroma, makes it taste like caramelized coffee. Also a good coffee, will taste more the single origin when we go there the 2nd time. Sure we will go back.

Over all the coffee houses that we visited have their own style, taste and concept. Begin to understand, that coffee house business is not only about coffee, but also about the concept and style. Here is some picture we took for coffee houses in Bandung.

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