I was walking along the street Yogyakarta – a
city I didn’t know existed until a week ago – and decided that I wanted to get
some coffee as I have been known to do.
I walk into this (suspiciously) nice-looking coffee shop. The interior of the place looked super clean,
even by western standards – for comparison, I had lunch a couple of hours
earlier sitting on a plastic stool at a place with no door. There were black marble tables and each one
had a computer. Also strange: there
didn’t seem to be an espresso maker or even a regular coffee machine. The place was empty except for two men
talking quietly in a dark corner and four (suspiciously) well-dress servers. Now, at this point, the smart thing to do
would probably have been to leave, so naturally, I walked up to the counter and
looked at the menu. The menu had maybe
10 things on it; all of which cost less than a dollar, which made me question
why they had multiple signs up saying they accept all major credit cards since
95% of the places I’ve been to in Indonesia don’t accept credit cards at
all. As the server nervously waited, I
ordered a coffee with milk. I sit down
at a table for a good 10 minutes as the servers busied themselves with work
unrelated to making my coffee when a guy walks in from outside with a black plastic bag that
looked like it contained a cup of some sort.
A couple of minutes after the guy bought the bag behind the counter, a
server magically appears with a coffee.
I slowly sip the strange-tasting coffee and scanned the room. A little while later a woman walks in holding
a slip of paper that she hands over to the cashier, who in turn hands her a
tightly wrapped box. The woman then
leaves and gives me a strange look as she walks out (maybe she’s never seen
anyone drinking coffee there before?). I
finish the strange-tasting coffee because I like to make poor decisions and
leave the place as confused as ever.
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