Bandung Trip - Another CUPS of Coffee

The last day in Bandung. We spent our morning buying our favourite snacks in Kartika Sari Bandung, the heaven of snack. Past review can be seen in http://littlefeetroundtheworld.blogspot.sg/2014/08/bandung-trip-last-night-at-bandung.html. 

After that, we went for our late breakfast at one of the cafe in the town. After doing much research, we had a few options laid out and finally we chose CUPS Coffee and Kitchen. This cafe is located at Jalan Trunojoyo No. 25, by the side of the road. From the outside, you do not find this cafe appealing. But once you step in, it is different atmosphere.

The outside, plain and old

A greenhouse inside

Plants on the wall, plants hanging from the ceiling, plants everywhere

We love to make coffee for the city who loves to drink it

The cafe was empty when we entered and it was still empty until we left. Perhaps it's the timing, perhaps it's the facade that made it empty. I don't know. After ordering our food, we hang around to snap almost every single corner of the cafe.

The coffee bar

The photogenic corner

In the middle of the cafe with my flat white

We waited quite some time for the food but we did not mind. The cafe made us want to sit there all day. And of course, once the foods were out, they were all great. We even ordered additional pasta. CUPS Coffee and Kitchen also serves decent cups of coffee.

Nasi gila - rice with sweet and spicy beef gravy, omelette, bala-bala (prawn ball fritter), cucumber, and prawn cracker

Beef burger with ham and mushroom

Spicy salmon spaghetti

Chicken and mushroom spatzle

We enjoyed sitting around enjoying the ambience before we decided to move on to the next destination: Lembang.

Group photo in CUPS

Love is in the air,
Little Feet

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We had our tummy quite hungry already and we decided to proceed to our next destination. We were considering between Kebon Awi Restaurant or Warung Salse. Kebon Awi Restaurant is a Sundanese restaurant in the middle of bamboo woods while Warung Salse is a cafe located atop of the hills at Dago.

Since Dad wanted to have a Sundanese dinner at his favourite restaurant, Alas Daun, we decided to have some light bites at Warung Salse.

Warung Salse has a unique space utilization. It is located at the edge of the cliff at the side of Jalan Dago Giri. Perhaps due to its narrow land area, it is designed to be cascading down the cliff. The roof at the main building is slanting. It really looks small from the outside, but once you step in, it feels spacious and heavenly.

Interior of Warung Salse, directly facing the woods

Outdoor area downstairs

We walked all the way down and found this beautiful wall art

Menu in the form of magazine

Our order: nasi bakar oncom (grilled rice with fermented soybean), tahu jeletot/tahu isi (fried tofu with stuffing of vegetables), batagor (fish cake with peanut sauce), tahu gejrot (fried hollow tofu in chili sauce), and rondo royal pisang (fried banana and pineapple)

The foods were pretty tasty especially the tofu variant. The nasi bakar was nice too. The only thing that was a bit of disappointment was the banana-pineapple fritter, I could not taste the pineapple at all!

Taking picture before leaving

After resting for a while, we continued to the next destination just a few hundred metres away, Lawang Wangi Creative Art Space. It is a newly establishment combining cafe, art gallery, and souvenir shop. Only in Warung Salse we knew that Lawang Wangi belonged to the same owner.

Lawang Wangi Creative Art Space has spacious parking area and minimalist 2-storey building. The first storey is used as an art gallery and souvenir shop while the upper storey is used as a cafe with a viewing deck.

Upon entering the building, we were welcomed by sounds of a traditional instruments and it felt so serene. We walked to the souvenir shop and saw arrays of handmade crafts and art items being displayed. We walked to the art gallery and took a glance of the exhibits. We then walked up and walked straight to the viewing deck.

Potteries

Fabric

Art Gallery

We were lucky that no officer was guarding the door to the viewing deck when we reached the second level. We just walked straight and started enjoying the panorama and of course, taking pictures.

The bridge towards the end of viewing deck

The view, how great thou art~~~

Don't follow, this is dangerous

Mom and dad <3

We walked in after a while, thinking there was only this platform to enjoy the scenery. But, to our surprise, at the back of the parking lot, there's a compound which was as beautiful as the viewing platform.

On the way down

Enjoying the sunset at the backyard

My favourite shot

The cheesy shot 

Mom's favourite shot 

Lawang Wangi Creative Art Space from the backyard

We drove back towards the city and found that the road was jammed like hell. We drove off from Lawang Wangi at around 6:00 p.m and we reached our dinner place at around 08:30 p.m. Another AWESOME ride.

We had dinner at Alas Daun, which was covered before in http://littlefeetroundtheworld.blogspot.sg/2014/07/bandung-trip-wilujeng-sumping-bandung.html. After the heavy dinner, we went back to Cibadak Food Street to try out another wedang ronde. Wedang Ronde Alkateri was recommended by a few friends and relatives. But still, for me, Wedang Ronde Gardujati 86 has no competition. Absolute champion!

Wedang Ronde Alkateri

Love is in the air,
Little Feet

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Bandung Trip - Pines in Maribaya

Since Bandung has changed so much, our destinations this time round were almost entirely new. Our first breakfast destination is Miss Bee Providore Cafe. It is one of the recently opened establishment and it is always packed with people. Many food bloggers have covered this place in their post and I guess it so-called increases the hype in this place.

It is located in Ciumbuleuit nearby our accommodation. We were out of the apartment at around 10 a.m. and we reached this cafe in about 10 minute drive. The car park was almost full when we arrived. We walked in and we were asked to wait since all the tables were occupied. 

We used the waiting time to play around the area. The place is green and cozy with a small yard nearby the outdoor seating. Perhaps it is due to the spaciousness, even though the place was full of people, it did not feel noisy nor suffocating. It was still homey and pleasant.

The parking lot and the facade

Rabbits at the backyard

Playing with the swing <3

Seesaw, who is heavier???

Indoor setting at the main building

It's so colonial

Indoor setting of the annex building, it was originally a green house I guess

Open space facing the backyard where we were seated

After waiting for awhile, we were seated and given the menu. We ordered a plate of fried rice (for dad because he has a stomach made in Indonesia), a portion of egg benedict, a portion of waffle, and a slice of carrot cake. It serves a pretty decent food, and topped with the cozy ambience, thumbs up!

Waffle for our sweet teeth

Our next destination was The Lodge Maribaya. The Lodge is located in Cibodas facing the pine woods of Hutan Raya Ir. Juanda (Er. Juanda National Forest Park). It was opened since 2010 as a camping ground and tourism spot. It can be utilised as outbond park and wedding venue too.

The entrance fee is IDR 25,000 (~SGD 2.6) per pax and it comes with a complimentary mineral water. The attractions inside, such as climbing the tree house, sitting on a sky swing, and pedalling the sky cycle, are on additional cost. We spent our time just walking around inside.

The entrance of The Lodge Maribaya

Walking down down down

A Lady selling Surabi, traditional Bandung snack made of flour and coconut milk and baked on top of traditional charcoal clay stove

Camping ground with onion shape tents, restricted area! 

All pines, as far as you can see

It reminds me of commercial of cleaning agent

The lower viewing platform

We kept walking downwards. There are a few viewing platforms and we stopped at every single one of them to take pictures of exactly the same background, pines.

Walking down, we have one additional member

View at lower panoramic spot 

Still a place to walk down

Everybody with phone except mom who always focuses to the camera

Looking at the future?

Green, red, pink, white, yellow, stripes

There are a few attractions inside which we can enjoy by paying certain additional fee. The queue was long thus we decided not to try. Besides, the ticket should be bought at the front counter and we were too lazy to walk back.

A tree house, you can climb up and get someone to take photo of you from the upper viewing platform. It looks cool

A sky swing (I don't know what is the official name of this thing), basically you just sit and the operator will move your swing towards the cliff so that you can get a cool picture of you swinging atop the pine woods

A sky cycle (again I do not know what this is called) and this is so called the most extreme one, you need to pedal along a line of cable till someone can take picture of you pedalling on the sky and you will be pulled back. It needs balance!

Love is in the air,

Little Feet

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