How to eat Lesehan in Yogyakarta

How to eat Lesehan in Java Island

Every Javanese neighborhood has some food-vending establishment.
Neighborhood diners and roadside delis that open from 9 am to 9 pm. Look like this Usually such a catering personality
doesn't want to do your dishes, either, so you'd get the meal on a
scrap of old newspaper and banana leaf fastened at one end with a
stick, called 'pincuk'.
In ordinary daytime delis, you'd find no waiters. All the food are
already cooked, and put into large bowls and plates at the front. Some
delis allow customers to take whatever they want themselves. But most
apply the same rule of having you stand there in line, while the owner
holds your plate and put into it what you say or point at.
He or she will tell you how much to pay after you eat, a very
impractical way but that has been in practice since time immemorial in
this island. Of course some customers always manage to forget what
they have eaten, hence some loss to the owner of the deli; some others
recall what they didn't eat, thus some profits.
In Yogjakarta we can finding many lesehan restaurant which start from
6.00 pm until 3.00 am in Yogya, artists and poets and dramatists and
such lifted this thing up into a sort of a sub-culture it was enjoying
the Lesehan restaurant where guests eat lesehan-style, sitting on
floor mats.
Staying awake all night at a roadside angkringan was from then on
something 'romantic' and 'artistic', despite the week-long influenza
that inevitably followed the uninitiated. As a matter of fact nobody
ever thought of the vendors themselves, either; who had been in
trouble because they couldn't sell as much as they normally did when
their spaces were crammed with the same artists sipping the same
glasses of ginger tea all night through. This habit is abating now,
though. Artists still stay up all night, but they do so at Playstation
arcades.
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