Joss Coffee

Joss Coffee: Coffee Charcoal in Yogyakarta

This is the story of a man in Yogyakarta, which update the way to drink coffee with hot charcoal plunge into it.

On Sunday at 23:00, all the way to the north of Yogyakarta Tugu Station filled with young men who snacking satay and drank a glass of strong coffee and smoky. Midnight conversation while coffee is not really a foreign thing in Indonesia, but this area is unique because it presents mixed charcoal coffee can help calm the stomach is "restless".

Pak Man

An old man nicknamed Mr. Man has been making coffee Joss since the 1960s. Like most coffee concoction from this area, he mixes coffee grounds with four spoons of sugar. Then he poured hot water from the kettle iron and followed by entering key ingredients: charcoal fire is still burning from the stove.
Charcoal helps neutralize stomach acid and has long been a cure for the problem of gas and bloating. Now for the sake of practicality, charcoal tablets are sold in pharmacies, but 50 years ago coffee seems to be a more pleasant way to digest the drugs that overcome the problem of the stomach and intestines.
Although some coffee charcoal gatherers say it generates stamina drink, coffee charcoal gain more popularity because of its uniqueness. As a beverage choice, people often choose tea or tape, fermentation of cassava. And from 17.00 hours until dawn, people sit in the front stalls Lesbian chatting - a favorite activity in the city famous as a city of this student.
This type of crowd that came to depend on hours of arrival.Sometimes office employees stopped by after work to snack fried tempeh, spring rolls and "cat rice" (rice wrapped with a small portion). Meanwhile, lovers usually come over tonight for a date.Many people also hang out to play music.
The atmosphere of the living is what attracts customers to come back. Although now it started to become popular with many tourists and travel bloggers, the atmosphere remains friendly and intimate like most hangout in Yogyakarta.
Now although he was already stepping 80 years, Mr. Man is sometimes still appear in the coffee shop in the kettle to boil water and invite customers to chat. If he's not there, some young men served as ministers and Sir Alex will replace Mr. Man dispensing coffee. Coffee shop itself is made from a collection of tents and wooden pieces are arranged into a long bench. Stove in the shop was located in a temporary kitchen that is connected to a bamboo pole. After the shop closed, Sir Alex will bring back his stake.

Coffee charcoal imitation

Several years after Pak Man Joss coffee first created, there are three other stalls that appear along the same road. Any street corner and then increasingly crowded by street singers, beggars, and pedicab drivers who take turns to appear.
When I've run out of coffee Joss, Mr. Alex ask my opinion about the coffee. I said, taste sweet, like most foods and beverages in Central Java. And from under his mustache that he is not good, he smiled broadly. Coffee Joss suitable for those seeking a little fun, a little challenge, and dynamics. That is all there in Yogyakarta.

Joss Lek Coffee ManJl. Wongso Dirjan (north side of the Tugu Station, Yogyakarta)Open: starting at 16:00 every day