9 Johor Bahru roadside cafes that define the camping chair trend

The scene has its roots in the COVID-19 lockdowns, when Gen Z began posting shots of camping chairs overlooking calming vistas. JB’s spread-out geography and forgiving municipal hand have helped the scene thrive.

While the internet tried popularising the trend under hashtags such as #healingchair, and local youth used terms like “port lepak”, the most accurate name for what this scene actually is remains “roadside cafe”.

And even as the scene scales up into hybrids, many have retained the DNA of the camping chair. Whether operating out of a van or a container on a gravel patch, these are businesses built on the freedom of the road (and roadside). 

We checked out nine of these to see if they’re worth your time – roughly ordered by scale and ending with the closest thing this scene has to a spectacle.

1. KOPI KAMPUNG KAK CER