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Photo AlbumAnomali Café (14 photos)May 13, '08 3:33 AM
for everyone

Anomali Coffee
Jl. Senopati Raya No. 35
Jakarta
Tel: +6221-5292-0102

About 8 moths ago, I received an e-from Abgari or Abgar who asked about my drinking coffee activities. Well, actually he wanted to build his own café. Not long after that, he also invited me to come to his café, Anomali Coffee.

Then I found out that there was media coverage about this Anomali Coffee. One of them was my best friend, Ree. She went there before me hehehe.

The last Sunday, after working out at 3 yoga classes that made this body tired and hungry, I and my Japanese friend, Kaori, decided to go to the Anomali Coffee.

After calling out Abgar asking for the way to get there, we found out that Anomali is quite near from our gym. Yippee let’s go, girls!!

When we arrived, the place is so cozy. Not that exclusive cozy, but this is more to warehouse environment. Some of the interior of Anomali were left unfinished, just like an unfinished warehouse.

After observing the area, we decided to move upstairs to the second floor and sat at the chairs at the outside balcony. Suddenly, a waitress told us that rain might come and a bit ordering us to sit inside. Eh what?? Hey, we wanted to get some fresh air here. But anyway, as the day was too beautiful to argue with unimportant matter, then we did what the waitress wanted.

As we moved inside, we took the chairs next to the glass windows and started to order from the menu. Kaori ordered Caramel Nut Latte, and I ordered Black Forest Latte. For our snack, we chose to share the Anomali Club Sandwich. What kind of snack sandwich is hehehe.

After waiting for some moments, then our drinks came. The Caramel Nut Latte that Kaori ordered tasted like the Caramel Cafe Latte from the other café. Eh, which café is it hehehe. Try to guess, OK. Meanwhile, my Black Forest Latte tasted better. At the bottom of the drink, I could find some delicious granules. So this delicious drink was made from the mix of coffee, cream, and black forest cake. So delicious!!

Then finally, here comes our snacks. This was not just some snacks. The sandwich came in 4 slices and was big enough for both of us. Inside the whole wheat bread, there were cheese slices, smoke beef, some vegetables and sauce. A very healthy snack. The sandwich was delicious. Was it delicious or were we to hungry after stretching our lazy muscles at 3 yoga classes hehehe.

Abgar came right after we finished our sandwich. He joined our table and chat around about Anomali things.

Anomali only sells single origin coffee. A single origin is a coffee from one region. This simply means that many plantations from one region contribute to a coffee type. When you take only the best beans from a specific region and roast them to perfection the coffee you get is truly remarkable.

All coffee in Anomali comes from the land of Indonesia, such as Java Jampit, Toraja, etc. Anomali has its own roaster machine. It is placed in the middle of the area at the first floor. That is why Anomali also call itself as Specialty Coffee Micro-Roaster.

Its coffee storage is placed in the middle of stairs to the second floor. Interesting concept!! Anomali is listed in the Specialty Coffee Association of America. This is to keep the quality and standard of Anomali in shape. As I said earlier, the interior of Anomali is left unfinished to create the coffee warehouse environment.

Abgar said that he was interested in coffee from a long time ago and learned it by himself from browsing at the internet. He and his partner, Irvan Helmi, are the coffee roasters in Anomali. They call themselves as the Coffee Chief. Yeah!!

When talking about coffee, suddenly Abgar asked a waitress to make a black coffee using the Java Jampit beans. Yup let’s start the coffee cupping!! When the black coffee came, Abgar stirred and knocked the side of the cup using a spoon with style. Yeah right, that kind of style!! And yes, the coffee tasted so nice.

The coffee cupping would not be completed if we did not chew the coffee bean. The beans come on a small plate, and we chewed them just like chewing some nuts. So crunchy!! And Kaori got a new experience that chewing coffee beans is also nice. The rule is that the beans should be fresh roasted within 2 weeks. If we chewed over 2-weeks-old beans, then the beans would not be so crunchy and nice.

After we chat around here and there, Abgar allowed us to go touring in Anomali. He showed us the roaster machine, the coffee storage, and the coffee bar. The most interesting part was the big banner above the coffee storage that urges the readers to support the Indonesian coffee farmers and the Indonesian coffee itself. Yep, let’s support that!!

By the way, Anomali provides free internet hotspot facility for its guests to surf on the internet. Sadly that I did not bring my laptop that time.

After all the chat, questions and tour in Anomali, I and Kaori decided to end the beautiful day and went back to our homes.

Maybe next time, I will go back to Anomali and bring my white Mac book and sit in the corner while enjoying a cup of hot coffee.

Enjoy some pictures I took in Anomali!!
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Blog EntryLampung Coffee – Bus Patas Brand – from Cibubur MarketMar 14, '07 4:52 AM
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One day, my Mom said that there is coffee sold at the Cibubur Market, near our home. She was not sure about the kind of coffee sold there, but the coffee is still in beans and will be grinded when we buy it. And then she offered if I wanted to taste the coffee. Well, Mom, off course, I want to.

 

A few days later, my Mom said that the coffee is ready. The coffee is from Lampung - Bus Patas brand. It came in three packs.

 

Why three packs? My Mom said that the coffee has three qualities, which is why it came in three different packs. It has first, second, and third quality. My Mom added that the coffee was grinded right in front of my Mom. So, the freshness is guaranteed, and nothing was added to the beans.

 

The coffee cupping was done at my friend's house.

 

The fragrance of the three kinds of this Lampung Coffee are different. The first quality of Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand has strong fragrance. So nice at my nose. The second quality of Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand has less fragrance compare to the first one. It is predictable that the third quality of Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand has no fragrance at all.

 

All qualities of this Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand is categorized as medium roasting as the color of the beans are dark brown.

 

It is time to drink the coffee. The one who prepared for the coffee was my friend's servant who always remembers that I really like black coffee. The first cups were wrong as she added sugar. Well, we should not use sugar when we conduct coffee cupping. The coffee should be black, no sugar and has been filtered, so we can taste the whole coffee, not the sugar.

 

The second cups were right. Three cups of coffee that represented three qualities of the coffee.

 

The color of the three qualities of the coffee was black. It is clear that the roasting method does not affect the color of the coffee in the cup.

 

The taste and the aroma of the coffee is the same with the fragrance of the coffee. The first quality of Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand has strong aroma and tastes so good. The taste was light and did not leave any mark as it ran through my throat. The second quality of Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand has less aroma and taste compare to the first one. Again, as we learned from the beginning, the third quality of Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand has no aroma and no taste.

 

But the cupping at my home found that the first quality of Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand tasted so bitter when sugar is added.

 

Overall, the quality of this coffee is good. Fresh and original. Nothing is added. The quality is the same with the taste. And yes, the price is cheap and friendly compare to the price of coffee at the supermarket and the café.

 

So, you wanna taste this Lampung Coffee - Bus Patas brand? I bet you do.

 

 

Happy cupping,

 

Astrid

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