WARUNG YS SIDO SEMI MBOK MUL - Vintage and Eccentric Ice Shop

WARUNG YS SIDO SEMI MBOK MUL

Address: Jl. Canteng, Kotagede, Yogyakarta Indonesia
GPS Coordinate: S7°49'48.6" E110°23'56.5" (view map)

Do you want to drink ice while enjoying an old atmosphere? Warung Ys Sido Semi Mbok Mul which was built since 1957 can be the answer. Its vintage furniture and its eccentric menu make this shop continue to live from time to time.

WARUNG YS SIDO SEMI MBOK MUL
Vintage and Eccentric Ice Shop

"Monggo (javanese word for please, have a seat)," says Mas Agung, grandchild of Dalijan Mulyo Hartono, a founder of the shop which YogYES visits this afternoon. Located about 10 meters from Majid Mataram Kotagede, the shop which was built since 1957 gives tempoe doeloe (past) atmosphere and culinary which make the customers are loyal to buy here. Spatial layout of the shop is very special. Dingklik and lincak (old Javanese seats), big wooden table, old school jars, vintage self-portrait paintings in the wall, Javanese letters in sablak (small blackboard) which hanged on the wall, lines of Sar Saparila botles which are separating the kitchen and the shop make this shop becomes very antique. Looking at the menu which is hanged in the east of the stall makes the time suddenly stopped. Menus with an old spelling blended with a new spelling and the price which used cent not IDR can be clearly seen there. For example, it is written "ys soklat(chocolate ice) 1,5 cent". Ys itself read as es (ice). The way of those writing makes menu in Sido Semi looks eccentric.

Those menu did not change a lot. We still can find a drink that became the main menu in Sido Semi mBok Mul, kacang ijo (green bean) ice. This ice consists of the mixture of green beans, white rice, and coconut milk with a splash of brown sugar that gives a special flavor. The special thing from this ice is ginger that can warm the throat. There is also ice mix consisting of fruits and tape. Those mixed ice are divided into two variants, es buah (fruit ice) and es coklat (chocolate ice). Es buah is a mixture of jack fruit, pineapple, camcau, kolang-kaling, cendol(ingredients for mixed ice), and tapai (sweet yeast cassava) which adding red syrup that make the fruit taste in this ice is so fresh. Meanwhile, ice chocolate is almost similar with fruits ice, but the differences is the taste of tape that will tickling our throat.

Well, the row of Sar Saparila bottles which are being the partition between the stall and kitchen make us seeing how Mbak Yul (Mbah Mul grand child) blends various ingredients into beverage and makes the ice with ice shavings. If there are so many costumers, we do not have to wait for so long. Mbak Yul only takes the ingredients in the old school jars which line up in the side of the window. Mas Agung which is busy to make meatball also can be seen. Yep, besides beverages which became the uniqueness of Sido Semi mBok Mul, a bowl of bakso also can be eaten here. This bakso is also unique. Instead of using beef marrows as its flavor, Mbok Mul meatballs using empal (meat). With the original meatball recipe since Soeharto reign, Mbok Mul meatball and its sauces can shake our tongue. Its delicious meatball soup makes our tongue addicting and want to eat it until the last drop.

If you are broke, do not worry! In Sido Semi you only need IDR 10,000 to eat a bowl of bakso and ice which can break the myth "hot food and cold beverages are not proper to you who have sensitive teeth". When the weather is hot, the are some many satay fans that can be used. Really eccentric to provide such a satay fan for consumers! But that is the value which can make Sido Semi’s consumers prefer to eat and drink in this stall. When the rainy season arrives, the are some hot beverages such as hot tape, a mixing of tape with red syrup, and hot oranges, the uniquely hot oranges which adding pineapple and kolang-kaling (ingredients to kolak and mixed ice).

Open hours: 10 PM - 6 AM, Tuesday closed

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