Culture Vulture | Traditional Coffee Shop in Aceh

Coffee Shops is something inseparable from Acehnese life. For Aceh people coffee shop not only a place for hanging out but also a place for learning, working, discussing, or sharing. I can say coffee shops is just like the heart of Acehnese culture. The numbers of coffee shops in Aceh especially Banda Aceh keep growing, even this town being called as Town with 1000 coffe shops. For this challenge I'd write one of coffee shops which is so "Aceh". This coffee shop name is Keude Kupi Aceh|KKA (Aceh Coffee Shop). Unlike most of coffee shops which adopted western coffee shops, KKA adopted Aceh traditional house design to be its design, besides the design which is so unique this place also serving Acehnese cuisines.

if you are a traveler and wanted to see Aceh culture, this coffee shop really a recommended place to visit. Here you can see how Aceh traditional house looks like while enjoying your a cup of coffe. Anyway Banda Aceh is a Town in western Indonesia.

This technique what makes Acehnese coffe have different taste. Besides coffee this technique also used to make "teh tarik" tea with milk.

This black coffee is the favorite one, almost everybody love it. (I got a serious gastric due to my habit in drinking coffe).

Besides Black coffee we also can order another Acehnese drink (from Banda Aceh), we called it **Sanger**. Sanger made of coffee with milk, the composition 3:1. If you come to my town this drink is something you must try.

Here you also can taste Mie Aceh (Aceh Noodles). usually This noodle served with slices of meat, seafood, or eggs. But at KKA you can only order it with eggs. Mie Aceh served in rich, hot and spicy curry-like soup. The spice mixture consist of black pepper, red chili pepper, shallot, garlic, cardamom, caraway, cumin and star anise. Usually this noodle cooked together with bean sprouts, tomato, cabbage and celery.

For snack they are serving Aceh special snack known as **Timphan**, made of glutinous rice flour, ground banana and coconut milk. These materials are then mixed and stirred until as thick as a dough. The banana-rice flour dough then filled with *serikaya* or grated coconut mixed with sugar. Then the dough is wrapped in banana leaves and steamed for an hour.

Just daily hang out, this is how beneath the house looks like.

Me and my friends learning Spanish inside of the house. For more, just come and visit my town 😄 Note : we only use sweetened condensed milk (susu kental manis) to mix with coffee or even tea, not pure or plain milk.

Culture Vulture | Traditional Coffee Shop in Aceh - Indonesia