{"id":78537,"date":"2026-08-22T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78537"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:25:58","slug":"9-johor-bahru-roadside-cafes-that-define-the-camping-chair-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78537","title":{"rendered":"9 Johor Bahru roadside cafes that define the camping chair trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The latest wave of Johor Bahru cafes \u2013 late-night, alfresco with camping chairs, downtempo pop like Lana del Rey on speakers \u2013 caught fire around 2024, away from downtown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">There are a few good reasons for it: These roadside cafes open late, downtown is anathema to the great outdoors, and the scene is, by and large, Malay and young.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The scene has its roots in the COVID-19 lockdowns, when Gen Z began posting shots of camping chairs overlooking calming vistas.\u00a0JB&#8217;s spread-out geography and forgiving municipal hand have helped the scene thrive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">While the internet tried popularising the trend under hashtags such as #healingchair, and local youth used terms like \u201cport lepak\u201d, the most accurate name for what this scene actually is remains \u201croadside cafe\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">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).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">We checked out nine of these to see if they\u2019re worth your time \u2013 roughly ordered by scale and\u00a0ending with the closest thing this scene has to a spectacle.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"EN-US\">1. KOPI KAMPUNG KAK CER<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com\/travel\/johor-bahru-roadside-cafes-camping-chairs-587301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest wave of Johor Bahru cafes \u2013 late-night, alfresco with camping chairs, downtempo pop like Lana del Rey on speakers \u2013 caught fire around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}