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Recently, traditional Javanese food stalls with a home concept have become quite popular. There is one food stall that provides a beautiful, typical Javanese village atmosphere that you can visit in Bali, namely Waroeng Kopi Klotok.
Located in the ‘tourist village’ of Seminyak, Kerobokan Kelod Village, North Kuta District, Badung, precisely on Jalan Lebak Sari, number 17, this eating place offers a homey concept with a cool interior. Visitors feel like they are eating at home.
The architecture of the building is designed in a typical Javanese style, namely a joglo house. The interior of the room is also equipped with a number of paintings and plays on words that are enough to attract the attention of buyers.
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“In Seminyak, with its modern atmosphere, we present a homely, old, beautiful Javanese atmosphere, especially the cuisine. We provide something different. Here, the restaurant is luxurious, we actually present it with a home concept, with authentic Javanese cuisine,” said one of the managers. , Son of Agung’s wife Yuli Savita Sari.
Waroeng Kopi Klotok has many dining rooms of various types that face directly onto the courtyard. Practically, visitors can have fun eating while looking at the shade of various Balinese flowers and ornamental plants.
Visitors can enjoy the dish in peace while enjoying Javanese music in the Limasan area. For those who want to feel the sensation of being at one with nature, visitors can choose to eat at the lesehan area called bale kebo.
This Bale Kebo is designed for visitors who like to sit back and relax. The other two bales are arranged like a restaurant with teak wood chairs and tables. The management has also prepared two special VIP rooms that can accommodate around 15 people with separate prayer rooms.
This food stall has not been open for a month but is already famous on social media. The fans are considered militant on the Island of the Gods because they have previously come to two other branches, namely Yogyakarta and Cisarua, West Java.
“This is the third branch. Previously we were present in Jogja and Cisarua, Bogor. In Jogja the view was rice fields, Cisarua with its coolness, spacious gardens, in Seminyak the concept is home. It’s more homey,” said Gek Yuli.
Regarding the food choices, said Gek Yuli, typical Central Javanese dishes are certainly a mainstay on the menu. For example, vegetable lodeh chicken feet, lodeh kluwih, and of course klotok coffee with fried banana as a side dish.
Javanese Concept Building Combination of Balinese Gardens
 Waroeng Kopi Klotok in Kerobokan Kelod, Badung, Bali. (Agus Eka/detikBali) |
detikers Of course you have been to several eating places that display traditional buildings. For example, a restaurant with Javanese nuances, whose building style is quite common for a restaurant and is often found in big cities.
Warung Kopi Klotok, at first glance, looks like a private Javanese-style house with a quite adequate yard. The restaurant opened by Siti Hediati Hariyadi or Titiek Soeharto in mid-July 2024 is no different from the ones in Jogja or Cisarua.
The concept both carries traditional elements that are closely related to the nuances of the 1970-1980s era. When entering, visitors are immediately greeted by a pyramid building with wooden walls with a majestic conical roof.
There is a gebyok door decorated with two lanterns and flanked by wooden windows full of Javanese carved accents on the left and right sides. There is also a 1.5 meter high black river stone bearing the name of the food stall.
In this part of the pyramid, there is a kitchen and main dining room. This is where visitors can order various menus directly. The side area is also opened for those who like to eat while enjoying the breeze.
Towards the central area, there are three bale kebo which are designated as places for casual dining or lesehan, including two VIP rooms. The buildings in the area in the middle are deliberately designed to be open so that visitors can enjoy the shade of the typical Balinese style garden.
The garden is laid out with river stones, accented with lamps made of black stone plus rows of frangipani trees, orchids and other refreshing fruit-bearing trees. In the middle there is a fountain and a children’s play area. Interestingly, there is no noise even though the stall is located in the middle of a modern area.
“Because in Bali, the garden adapts the Bali garden concept. There are lots of orchids, fruit trees and so on, lots of (plants). He (Titiek Soeharto) as the owner also took part in designing the concept of the building. Mother was detailed, right down to the choice of stones and floors. , or garden placement, buying equipment, it all comes together,” said Gek Yuli.
Lodeh Chicken Feet until Lodeh ‘Arise’
 Chicken lodeh at Waroeng Kopi Klotok, Kerobokan Kelod, Badung, Bali. (Agus Eka/detikBali) |
There are many traditional Javanese menus served at Waroeng Kopi Klotok Seminyak. For example, tempeh mendoan, tempeh garit and bacem, salted fish, fried chicken, and crispy eggs. Well, chicken feet vegetable lodeh turns out to be a mainstay and favorite menu at this stall.
The chicken feet lodeh dish costs IDR 27 thousand and is made with banana flower vegetables. Chicken feet as toppingsIt is cooked well enough so that the bones are not too tough.
At first glance, it looks like soto claw in general. However, the taste of the coconut milk sauce tends to be sweet and savory, slightly warm with a sprinkling of green chilies.
“Most of the people interested are domestic guests. There are also foreign tourists because they are vegetables, right, vegetarian. They are invited by local people and they get along well, their taste comes in,” said Gek Yuli.
This stall provides a menu of one package of lodeh rice with a rice menu plus lodeh claw, lodeh tempeh, kluwih. There is also a menu of fried chicken, fried catfish, even tempe chili which is also a favorite.
“A variety of lodeh are favorites. This means that the typical vegetable lodeh. There is kluwih lodeh when fruit vegetables appear in Bali. There is also tempe lodeh. But the delicious one is chicken feet lodeh,” said Gek Yuli.
Sipping Klotok Coffee
 Klotok coffee at Waroeng Kopi Klotok, Kerobokan Kelod, Badung, Bali. (Agus Eka/detikBali) |
As the name suggests, this stall serves klotok coffee dishes that you shouldn’t miss. Kopi klotok is a Javanese black coffee drink with palm sugar as a sweetener. This is different from black coffee which is generally only brewed in a glass.
Klotok coffee is made by cooking black ground coffee and other ingredients directly in a special pot using firewood until it boils. Once the coffee is cooked, it is served in old-fashioned glass glasses.
“Kopi klotok, yes, because when it is cooked until cooked it makes a klotok-klotok sound. So that’s where the name comes from. As an accompaniment (sweetener) Javanese sugar, or usually asked if you want it to be sweet or bitter according to requests,” said the manager.
To enjoy klotok coffee, visitors need to spend IDR 20 thousand. Meanwhile, the price of fried bananas is IDR 20 thousand.
Ginger Wedang to Tubruk Tea
Apart from the typical black coffee, the manager also provides hot drinks such as lemongrass ginger drink, milk coffee, and brewed tea with the addition of palm sugar or rock sugar, the prices of which are still relatively affordable. Buyers can also still order various orange drinks, both warm and cold, including water.
The Fried Banana and Mendoan: True Coffee Friends
After a heavy meal, it’s time to snack on a variety of delicious Indonesian snacks. Waroeng Kopi Klotok sells fried bananas, mendoan tempe, fried cassava and jadah or fried sticky rice/sticky snacks sprinkled with grated brown sugar as a true companion for coffee.
Gek Yuli said, fried bananas are the best-selling snack. According to him, most of those who come are those who like coffee. Fried bananas are considered a perfect pairing for tasting coffee.
 Food served at Waroeng Kopi Klotok, Kerobokan Kelod, Badung, Bali. (Agus Eka/detikBali) |
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