Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu Originally Posted By: v8dave Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu yep, i'll second that. good coffee. such a damn pity, however, that i have to go to the ends of the earth (aka south jakarta) to buy it. Send one of your academic qualified staff to get it... good thinking, 99. i'll send one of my useless lawyers to pick it up. Useless Lawyers? I thought that is where you get all of your keen legal advice?

Originally Posted By: v8dave Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu yep, i'll second that. good coffee. such a damn pity, however, that i have to go to the ends of the earth (aka south jakarta) to buy it. Send one of your academic qualified staff to get it... good thinking, 99. i'll send one of my useless lawyers to pick it up.

Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu yep, i'll second that. good coffee. such a damn pity, however, that i have to go to the ends of the earth (aka south jakarta) to buy it. Send one of your academic qualified staff to get it...

yep, i'll second that. good coffee. such a damn pity, however, that i have to go to the ends of the earth (aka south jakarta) to buy it.

PC, Bob, check out the coffee from Merdeka (http://www.merdekacoffee.com) which you can get from the the Periplus Bookshops (I get it from the one next to Hero in Kemang) I buy the Java Estate coffee which is strong but a good tasting coffee. If you like it a little lighter, the Java Village is good too. Kuku has tried both but is not man enough to handle the Java Estate one and prefers the milder Village one.

Originally Posted By: Polisi Cepek I don't like starbucks on principle - creepy cookie-cutter stores, big american company, etc. The price is absurd, but taste-wise are there better options in Indonesia? Beng. Solo is cheap, but really much worse than starbucks.

I don't like starbucks on principle - creepy cookie-cutter stores, big american company, etc. The price is absurd, but taste-wise are there better options in Indonesia? Beng. Solo is cheap, but really much worse than starbucks. As for Bakoel Kopi, also expensive but at least it's an Indonesian outfit: I **will** their coffee to taste good but the roasting is crap and the low turnover means their beans are stale and taste pretty bad, no matter how I try to fool myself.

I'm baffled, I thought having a kitas was what they wanted foreigners to do. Kuku?

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