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Japan's Trip: Blue Bottle Coffee - Shinjuku

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Our second post from Japan . It took the same place like our last post , Shinjuku . It was really satisfied to strolling in Shinjuku , there are so many things to see, so many things to buy, and it's fun! There are few coffee shop lists that I made. Here's in Shinjuku the Blue Bottle Coffee was an interesting place to visit. The iconic open bar with lining of iconic drip sets was so appealing. The service was fast , great coffee collections, taste good as well. They serve espresso based and manual brew coffee. Both taste great, light and sweet taste that just fit with me. I had my Kenya Kiambu Gathiruini in manual brew, it has an intense fruity like berry flavor and delicate sweet honey after taste. Really glad to had this. I've tried their milk based as well, it taste unique and sweet than usual milk based that I had in Jakarta. It might be because the milk that they use, it taste sweeter when combined with the espresso. By the way if you are looking for some kind of ...

Japan's Trip: Kohmen Ramen - Shinjuku

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Glad to be back again! After several blog less months, now I'm about to share our last trip in Japan . Basically our trip only covers Tokyo city, those one week experience that we had was so memorable. REALLY!! So, this gonna be our first ramen shop that we had in Tokyo , it's located in the heart of Shinjuku . Our friend ( Mr. @ briandsumito ) refers us to pay a visit to this local ramen shop. There will be not much pictures that we share about this place but I hope you will still enjoying it because we were so excited back then to try this. One thing that we are sure is they use pork broth for the soup. So it gave a thick soupy texture which has flavorful experience both in aroma and taste ! Really glad our first ramen was so impressed like this. Personally, I love the ramen texture, it a little bit dense but still chewy and enjoyable. They put a sliced pork on the top, sliced bamboo shoot, half egg, crispy nori and bunch of spring onions. Those pork taste sweet but yet ...