Sharing: Coffee Books & Rain Cafe

A cup of coffee on the wall

There are so much cafes pop out in Alor Setar since last year. Each cafe has different theme and speciality. For me, a top rated cafe will provide heartwarming service to his customers, has their own special brewed coffee and nice environment.

Recently, I had my coffee hunting [from the phrase food hunting lol] in Alor Setar. The first cafe is Coffee Books & Rain Cafe. I just randomly chose a cafe I felt like to go.

Coffee Books & Rain Cafe card

Coffee Books & Rain Cafe is located near Hong Leong Bank in Jalan Pegawai. It's a little bit difficult to find the exact location. Just turn into the entrance between Petronas and Hong Leong Bank and go straight until the T-junction. Then, turn left and you will see the cafe painted in black on your left soon. To explain it in a simple way, it is located behind those shops. Haha.

Front door of Cafe

Cashier

The first impression when I stepped into the cafe was the tables looked a little bit messy. But, this is good one, not a bad comment. I don't like cafe with tables and chairs organised too tidy like a restaurant. For me, it's order within disorder. Haha. The special about the tables here was oil tank tables. The oil tank was used as table but it looks kinda small for me.

Outdoor seats

I had no idea what coffee I wanted to drink. So, I asked the barista to recommend me. He recommended me latte speculoos. So, what is speculoos? Speculoos is a subtle mix of spices such as cinnamon, white pepper, ginger, cardamom and nutmeg. The coffee had the nice smell of cinnamon and I liked it. It's not too sweet. So, those who don't like rather sweet coffee like mocha, cappuccino etc can try this.

Coffee and Drinks

Hot Latte Speculoos

Plain water is provided! Seriously need some water after drinking coffee.

A cup of coffee beans

There's only coffee and cakes served in this cafe. If you're looking for a relaxing place to hang around with friends, you can consider here. The drinks here are not too expensive and the ambiance is nice.

I stayed there for about 2 hours alone, writing journal and taking some photos. I needed some courage to walk around and take photos. Luckily, there were not much customers during that time.
But, I still feel a little awkward to walk around there. :o

I didn't finish the coffee and left a little bit. Why? Because I was going to trap the smell of the coffee in my weekly planner! ;p It sounds weird I know. I just drew the cups and painted it with some coffee. I liked the outcome as it's the real colour and smell of coffee. However, it smelled quite sweet after it dried.