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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Gasibu Market Shock!

Market Shock is the term used by Bandung people or "Pasar Kaget" in bahasa Indonesia. This is because it normally nothing, no market around this area. But suddenly you will find this huge crowded market in Sunday morning!

If you visit the city of Bandung on Sunday morning, do not be surprised, if you see crowds and congestion that occurred in front of Gedung Sate Bandung, precisely around the Square Gasibu Bandung.

The atmosphere here is very crowded, because the presence of an impromptu market or “market-shock” is often called, are filled by various people from various circles of society.

Gasibu market that claimed to be surprisingly the biggest market in Bandung, there is only on Sundays from 06.00 am until 12.00 noon.

From the selling, exercising, just walking, like shopping for food or blend into one in this market. The goods sold here are also varied, ranging from vegetables, pets, bags, clothing, tools, electronics as well as merchants who sell clothing, shirts and pants and a wide range of accessories at low prices.

Usually exercise activities more deliberately excluded because typically most come to look around while enjoying the atmosphere of the morning in Gasibu was intending to look for food and shopping here. For foodies, this market is a typical street food paradise, as here you can find variety of snacks and food, like chicken rice steam, pureed chicken, chicken satay, roasted rice, rice lead, shake noodles, fried rice Sate Jebred, Lontong Kari, Rice Mix, Semur Jengkol, various Curried, various kit and much more than you can imagine!

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Bandung Trails

Explore Bandung in a different way. As this city is actually more friendly for pedestrian, then you might want to try some walking tours organized by Bandung Trails.

Bandung Trails
Jl. H. Ibrahim Adjie 304 No. 24
Bandung, West Java 40275
Celullar 0815-7030505

Contact persons

Teguh Amor Patria, Manager, 0815-7030505
Email bandungtrail@yahoo.co.id

Membership in Bandung Trails

There is no ‘membership’ or membership fees in Bandung Trails. By simply joining our mailing list, bters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com you will be updated with information on our Heritage in Togetherness events and be entitled to receiving special rate for the events (see below).

Participation is open to men, women, and children of all nationalities - particularly those who are interested in exploring Bandung and its heritage.

Our activities include:

• Heritage in Togetherness ; heritage-related programs, mostly heritage walks/tours, which are held 3 - 5 times a year and open to the public. They are non-profit ones and participants pay only for interpreter, meals, entry ticket(s), and other basic costs.
• Students Go Heritage ; heritage-related programs for groups of students
• Bandung Walks ; heritage walks / tours for visitors in Bandung
• I See BTers ; our club consisting of international citizens in Bandung. Activities include talks, walks, cultural programs, etc.

Note: if you are an expat or an international student residing in Bandung, we can give you a free orientation to Bandung and its heritage through a walking tour. Please contact us and we will arrange aa tour for you (minimum 5 persons - all must be based in Bandung).

~ Source: http://www.expat.or.id/

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