YOFORIA YOGURT STUDIO - BANDUNG
So I
literally just arrived back from Bandung, couldn't sleep and in the mood to
write something, I slept the whole time on the way and now feeling so refreshed,
especially after taking a bath, thought I just share you my experience visiting
this very happening pop-up Yogurt studio located in Paris Van Java Bandung:
Yoforia!
First things first,
what's yogurt to you? A necessity, a running trend or a lifestyle? Well a little
bit of everything for me but most likely something that I like and doesn't have
to explain why, aside from being delicious, it's not a secret anymore that
yogurt contains mainly vitamin & calcium and famously known as one of the
"white magic" meal to help human lose weight. When it comes to me I never treat
yogurt for the latter reason mentioned, it's a delicious sweet dessert that
would perfectly end my meal, or simply something that I love munching on
anytime.
Yoforia is a name
inspired from the word "yogurt" & "euphoria" and it's their aim to make and
spread the yogurt euphoria! It's located at Bandung's most well known shopping
mall Paris Van Java (the 'walk' area Resort Level) and will be around for three
months (as this post written they're on their second week), on the day of my
visit, it was rather packed and I have a reason for that (keep on reading).
Yoforia from
outside, should be eye-catching enough for you guys to notice.
Aside from the
Japanese calligraphy, something about the overall logo design that gave me this
Japanese vibe, maybe its simplicity.
The outlet also
occupies outdoor seating area dedicated mainly for smoking guests (or simply
those who need more natural air lol), simple wooden furnitures beautifully
decorated the area.
The
pop-up store wasn't entirely made for Yoforia alone, but they share it together
with some other local brands like Sanoesa, Gammara and Morning Whistle. Sanoesa
is the wooden furniture producers and seriously teasing me with their amazing
crafts but I chose to shop online because I didn't want to carry heavy ass
hand-carry, bought so many Kartika Sari cakes and pastries already barely have
any space on my hands. Leather items enthusiasts can also pamper their eyes on
Gammara's beautiful leather item selections (had my eye on the simple and posh
laptop bag) and of course Morning Whistle, I own like 6 of their simple t-shirts
and always my go to casual wear or simple tees that I can combine with good
looking outer wear.
Sanoesa items
A little piece of handdrawn art made by talented urban
artist/sketcher: Thufeil, you can see more of his great sketches on his
Instagram @thufeil
Coffee here, what
for?
Yogurt is definitely
the main item sold here and creatively twisted to various yogurt drinks that you
can choose here (more below), but aside from that, you can also find some light
bites selections (they don't serve heavy meals here) such as potato wedges,
chicken wings, Gomabo, salmon salad, pannacotta and yogurt smoothie bowl with
price ranges from IDR 25-40k.
Price for
their yogurt drinks creations is IDR 35k (regular) & IDR 45k
(large)
Most
of the creations here are made by the ideas and hands of my friend Chef Martin
Natadipraja, my visit here was sorta like a mini catch up. One thing that I love
about their yogurt base was that it's not overly sour, mainly sweet without
completely leaving the essential sour factor, even though just a hint, making it
perfect to be processed and combined with various further creations like the
yogurt drink, sauces for the food here or direct consumption as well!
All
my friends who've previously been here before heavily emphasized their favorites
to the fruit based mix, but when it comes to me I have my own favorite, a little
anti-mainstream but you'll love it: it's the Yofoccino, yes basically yogurt
with shots of espresso and the answer to the coffee beans picture above.
Yofoccino - IDR
35k
Plain yogurt +
espresso + caramel
Plain yogurt,
espresso and caramel shaken together
The fact that the plain yogurt base wasn't exactly sour
made a good match to the espresso mix, coffee can be very acidic (sour too) and
when you mixed it to the lighter and sour yogurt I don't think it can create a
drink with such a delicate taste like this one. I tried their initial serving
with one shot of espresso and I found the thicker and bolder yogurt to
overshadowed the flavor so I asked them to make me one with double espresso shot
and THAT WAS MY KIND! The coffee finally had more role to this drink, still
without overpowering the yogurt. I don't know if they can customize you with the
double shot, but paying extra would be worth it, or else you'll have a very
light coffee flavor, your choice.
Fresh caramelized
strawberries
Mother of
Dragon (left), A-Yo Strawberry (right)
A-Yo Strawberry -
IDR 35k (regular), IDR 45k (large)
From their yogurt
and fruit based drink selections, surpisingly their A-Yo Strawberry was my
favorite for all the easy reasons: I am a huge strawberry fan and they managed
to make a very good blended yogurt drink with very easy ingredients too, but
again, their plain yogurt holds the main key! Overall I love this drink
(especially when it's served cold) as it's very refreshing, perfectly sweet,
fruity (with lychee fruit mix too) and natural, you can definitely taste the
real strawberry flavor and I saw with my very own eyes too that they didn't use
artificial ingredient.
Berry Smooth - IDR 35k (regular), IDR 45k
(large)
Mother of Dragon - IDR 35k (regular), IDR 45k
(large)
This could easily be everyone's favorite due to the
lovely blend of mainly banana and dragon fruit, the blueberry contributed in
giving a hint of sour flavor in the right amount. Refreshing is probably the
rightest word to describe their fruit drink creations, that's why it's super
important that you have the drinks right off the kitchen to enjoy them on its
best state.
Y.O.L.O - IDR
40k
GLAD THAT THEY HAVE THIS ON THE MENU! I have heard
praises about this from my friends and after trying it myself I understand the
rave, it was indeed very good. Prolly my first time having yogurt with chocolate
and peanut butter, or yogurt as a smoothie bowl base. The flavor had such
interesting blend of little sour + strong peanut butter flavor (PB always rule
when you put it on the mix) and crunhy toppings to add texture and fun.
Seriously highly recommended.
Salmon Salad with
Dill Yogurt Dressing - IDR 40k
The dill yogurt sauce was homemade and made from the same
yogurt base only with some tweaks done to make it salad dressing worthy. The
smoked salmon was given pretty generously (as you can see from the picture) and
paired with fresh lettuce + lemon to make it even more refreshing.
Chicken Nachos with Thai Sauce - IDR
35k
The chicken breasts were coated with yogurt mix to hold
the nachos and flour together before beautifully deep fried. I could pass the
sauce, not that it's bad but the chicken itself was already nicely marinated,
something about the spicy seasoning that was tasty, spicy and fragrant in the
same time, almost like this red-pepper kind of seasoning.
Yogurt Coffee Pannacotta - IDR 25k
Was kinda skeptical about this for its plain look but
this simple dessert turned out to be one of those impressive pannacotta
creations, it's been awhile since the last time I had pannacotta and it was a
delightful comeback LOL. The pannacotta was velvety-creamy and paired with nice
and sweet caramel sauce, they claimed to have coffee infused but I couldn't seem
to a catch a note, anyway still delicious though.
Now special thanks
to my talented buddy Martin Natadipraja, be sure to follow this good looking
chef on his Instagram @MartinNatadipraja, very glad to be able to sample your
delightful creations, seriously bruh they're SO GOOD.
From the last
update, I heard that the studio will be around until March 17th 2017 so I
suggest hurry up and explore their menu! Good creations sold for a very
reasonable price tag, if you're on a healthy diet and are watching your weight,
I suggest going for their smoothie bowl and their fruit yogurt blend drink to
take away right after.
Thank you and best
of luck Yoforia!
Yoforia
Yogurt Studio
Paris Van
Java - Resort Level G-B61
Jalan
Sukajadi No. 131-139
Sukajadi,
Bandung 40162
Opening
hours: 11 AM-10 PM
Average
spending for two: IDR 100k
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