Kabaya Ambu (Traditional Sundanese Wedding Dress)

When you're thinking of having a traditional Sundanese wedding ceremony, you should wear traditional bride and groom dress then. One place that provides Sundanese wedding dress rental service, as well as tayloring for your own, is Kabaya Ambu.


All the dresses are hand-made by native Sundanese women. While the design is created by the owner-operator Winni, assisted by her husband Okka. There are quite many local celebrities who entrusted their Sundanese wedding gown to be made by Kabaya Ambu. It's positioned in the mid-premium class in the city. The cut are all classical Sundanese style, enrich by contemporary accessories.


Kabaya Ambu has presented numerous catwalk exhibition, collaborated with famous Indonesian artists. Here, you can also have fine services on make-up and hairstyling, as Kabaya Ambu team up with professional make-up artists and hairstylists.


Jl. Dr Hatta No. 3 
Cihampelas
Bandung 40116
Phone: (022) 520 1829, 0811 238370
E-mail: winni.kabaya.ambu@gmail.com
Web: www.kabaya-ambu.com

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Kopi Aroma Traditional Coffee Maker

All you coffee-lovers put on your mocha loafers, for it's time for a trip down memory lane. Don't spill your beans, but let them drain. Aroma's Coffee Factory has been in the business of making good earnest coffee since the 1930's. When you enter the small shop on Jalan Banceuy, central Bandung, its wooden interior and antique coffee paraphernalia such as old coffee machines and bronze scales will make you think that you stepped into a movie set. Aroma's coffee factory remains dedicated to entrepreneurial craftsmanship that keeps rusty German made coffee burners from the 1930's a foundation instead of a relic from a long forgotten past.


Everything in the factory is still hand-labor, from the picking and sorting of the beans to the roasting and packing. The coffee beans coming mainly from Sumatra and Jawa are dried in the back yard for an hour and then piled sack upon sack rising more than 10 meters above our heads in the storage room, where the Robusta beans will dry for 5 years, while the Arabica beans require an astonishing 8 years of lying around.


Get a taste of authenticity and drop by at Aroma's. Open daily, if you want a behind the scenes look on the coffee making process, be there before 2 o clock or call in beforehand.

Aroma's pabrik and toko kopi
Jalan Banceuy No. 51 

Bandung 40111
Phone: 022 - 4230473

Fax: 022 - 4232648

Source: http://www.streetdirectory.com/

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Tamim Alley Jeans Shop

If you've ever been to Pasar Baru, maybe you can further explore the surrounding area. Actually not too far really, but only a few hundred yards behind Pasar Baru, you'll find an alley called Gang Tamim.

If you look at the shops around this hall, you may not see anything special. All the shops are as ordinary as those that sell grocery items. But if you look more closely, there are several shops around the alley that are always crowded surrounded by people who are shopping. What goods are sold in those stores until the people were crowded in there?

Before the shops in Jalan Cihampelas became famous as the center of Bandung Jeans, a lot of Bandung people actually come shopping at this Gang Tamim. Yes, you can guess, they shop for Bandung Jeans! This gang (alley), was the first that sell unique jeans pants, high quality with low price. Even plenty of them are branded. But apart from that, there is something more interesting in this Gang Tamim than the jeans shop in Cihampelas. So, next time you are looking for Bandung Jeans, you might want to consider Tamim jeans.
If you shop at Gang Tamim, you not only can buy the ready made jeans pants. You also can buy the materials quality jeans with a very low price. If you want to get a cheaper price, you can buy a kilogram system. That is, the materials you purchased was not measured on its length and width, but it will be weighed. The price is calculated per kilogram of what you get. Very interesting is not it?

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Cihapit, Second Hand Goods

Street yard of Cihapit Bandung is famous for its collection of sellers that offer used goods. Starting from electrical appliances such as audio radios, cars, shoes, home furnishings, as well as the most unique, there are many sellers in Cihapit tapes, CDs, and LPs(PH) which is rare, the sellers mostly serves as a collector.

The vendors are usually open starting at 10:00 am to 16:00 wherethey each have their own place that is not too small and not too big, either. With a simple situation and arrangement of the goods are neatly allows each buyer can find something he wanted very well.

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T. Kardin Knives Workshop

Jl. Hegarmanah No. 46 
Bandung 40141 - INDONESIA
Phone : +62-22-2031307
Fax : +62-22-2041592
SMS/Mobile Phone : +6281322933459


T. Knives KARDIN WORKSHOP - KNIFE INDONESIA is a workshop that promises high quality handmade knives with D2 steel raw materials, O1, 440C and ATS-34standard AISI (American Iron & Steel Institute) or high-quality Damascus steel, strong and able to survive long. High-quality steel materials and touches sincerity, dedication, precision and high artistic imagery in the manufacturing process has been and will always produce exclusive, beautiful and pretty knives, yet able to fulfill the functional side as a superior blade sharpness, strength and durability.

T. Knives KARDIN WORKSHOP - KNIFE INDONESIA has served many different desires and requests of their lovers and can now also serve your orders. The blades can be ordered with a form like the examples in their catalog, or may follow a new approach to design your own creations. Materials are available D2 steel blade, O1,440C and ATS-34 (AISI standard) or Damascus, the handle can be made ​​of deerhorn, buffalo horn and ebony wood of high quality or other tropical wood. Every bladeof your message is included with a leather sheath.

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