It’s no brainer that most of us cannot function without coffee. I totally get the popular saying “don’t talk to me after I have my coffee.” I feel that in a deeper level. Luckily, I live in a country that has been one of many top coffee-bean importers in the world. It has always been an amazing experience to try coffee from Indonesia, Gayo and Toraja to name a few, but there are still many of them waiting to be explored.
Walking down the memory lane, I have a few first-time experiences with coffee. The first time my grandmother let me have her Kopi Susu Tubruk. I remember the first time a local coffee shop emerged in my tiny city in Indonesia several years back. I kept going back and forth to that coffee shop after work. Now, I can go to one coffee shop on the way to work and to another one on the way back. They are everywhere now and with a lot of different varieties. I enjoy hopping from one coffee shop to another after work, preferably with a friend or two, and just have a good time.
Everyone agrees that sharing about what we love is one of the best things in the world, but knowing that many people have been helped with their “coffee quest”, it is more than that. It is rewarding to know that the contribution that I make through Google Local Guide becomes a reference to a lot of people. Getting feedback from this has become a perk and a purpose of keeping on contributing one hop at a time.