Yogyakarta, as one of the most welcoming cities, never fails to surprise me. Almost every week, a new café opens in this city. This week, Arah Cafe opened right in the heart of the city, near Tugu Yogyakarta. Architecturally, it’s quite intriguing as it stands among a row of Dutch colonial-era buildings. The café’s design, in my opinion, is quite modern and minimalist with a Japanese-inspired ambiance. The dominant combination of white and maroon on every wall creates a warm atmosphere, while the high ceilings give it a natural and cool feel.
It just happen that I arrived on a extremely hot Friday, so I decided to head over after Friday prayers, hoping it wouldn’t be too hot or traffic-heavy. But unexpectedly, the area around Arah Tugu was both traffic-heavy and extremely hot that afternoon. I arrived at Arah Coffee already feeling exhausted and overheated. Fortunately, the space was fully air-conditioned, making it quite comfortable and cooling.
I wasn’t alone at the WFC that Friday, as several of my friends had joined me, so the atmosphere was even more lively. That day, we discussed many interesting topics, one of them being the state of the country, which seems to be drifting aimlessly.
Since I was hungry, I also ordered a meal at Arah a rice bowl, to be exact. Yeah, it’s just a pretty standard café with prices that are a bit overpriced, but luckily the coffee with milk I ordered was pretty good creamy and tasty. We spent quite a while there until around 7 p.m. We even took a few photos in the mirror before heading home with a sense of aesthetics.
After that, since we were hungry, we finally decided to buy dinner—red fried rice—from a place behind Kranggan Market. It was quite tasty and reminded me of the red fried rice from East Java. One thing to know is that most fried rice in the Yogyakarta area is Javanese style, which tends to be brown and sweet very different from what you find in East Java.
Look at this photo it looks so yummyyy!!
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