The Roquette is here!!!

Being a new cafe in the town, with some of the best cafes of Ipoh surrounding the area, it has to make good coffee, provide good customer service, and most important of all, be able to offer something special that no other cafe can.

And this is EXACTLY what this new cafe has done! The Roquette Cafe (derived from the word "Rocket") @ Old Town Ipoh is not just a new cafe, it's a really special one, with not just good hand craft espresso based coffee and dripper coffee, but also a political service centre, offering a place for locals to share information, talk, and raise complaints to DAP's Kepayang Assemblyman, Nga Kor Meng (if you are not sure who he is, just type his name on Youtube, he's all over the place).

The service cafe is divided into 2 parts, with the front part being the cafe and the back portion being the service centre (Mr Nga can be seen every Tuesday at this service centre). The cafe offers various freshly roasted coffee beans, mostly from Indonesia. I ordered a cup of Indonesian Lintong (mid acidity, slight herbal and fruity, a full body cup) brewed with dripper method (they called it Paper Drip Coffee) and I love the way they brew the coffee right in front of me at my table. They are using Kalita wedge-shaped dripper and coffee server, which is pleasant in the eyes. The espresso machine they are using is a semi-auto La Cimbali M27 with double group head.

Though the baristas are not skilful (perhaps they are still new), they are very sincere and passionate in serving us good coffee. Their courtesy make me want to return to that cafe again in the near future.