Koen’s Coffee Corner part of Mylifestyleblogs.com Channel

On his personal blog, my colleague Harry Sufehmi questioned the price of a cup of coffee on Starbucks cafe which could reach 10x the price of local-branded cafe. I have posted an unusually long comment on his blog entry, though. One of my point is that my nation, Indonesia, who has unquestionably the best coffee in the universe (haha), has no culture — and law — to save a partial number of the best coffee to be consumed domestically, for tourism etc. Almost all best coffee (and tea, and other) has been exported. The only thing we can do to sip some drops of Indonesian best coffee is to reimport it: to buy from Starbucks, Caswell, etc.

I have talked to a manager of a Starbucks cafe in Bandung, the town where I’m living. We have some similarities. One of them is that our favourite coffee brands are always Indonesian origin: Sulawesi, Sumatra, Ijen’s Java. And now I found this brand on a visit to Surabaya: Komodo Dragon.

The name Komodo reminds us of an island in southeast Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia; as well as a giant lizard species who only live naturally there. But Komodo Dragon is apparently not a variety of coffee planted on that region. Not so far from Lesser Sunda Islands, we could find a small country, Timor Lorosae, of which coffee is also internationally famous. And, no, this brand is not from that region either. This brand in a blend of Indonesian-only coffee varieties. A blend of my favourite coffee, in short :).

I just grinded the bean last night, and took the first sip this morning. Yeah, it was a great time :).

Then I spent a couple minutes to google it. Apparently, there are many coffee connoisseurs  have favored this blend. Customers on Amazon awarded it with five stars. Starbucks itself describes it as a full-body coffee with a brilliant crispness that is refreshing and unanticipated, since Indonesian coffees are low in acidity.

I have changed the text for my wake-up alarm. Previously, it was “Hey, it’s time to colourise the universe.” But, starting tomorrow, it will be “Hey, it’s time for another mug of Komodo Dragon.” I hope it will motivate me better :).

Topic: Indonesian, My Story, Sbux