Many people say, you do not legally have visited the island of Belitung called if you have not tasted a cup of coffee there. Drinking coffee is part of the culture of the Pacific Islands community. No wonder so many coffee shops scattered around the island.
Billiton, a small island in the tin-producing Bangka Belitung Islands Province, administratively divided into two, namely the Pacific Islands with a capital of Tanjung Pandan and East Belitung Manggar capital.
Once lekatnya coffee drinking culture to the extent that the City Manggar make a coffee shop as a new icon of the tourism industry. Today, Wednesday (19 / 8), the city held a mass event will also include a coffee milk Manggar as "The City Coffee Shop 1001"
In the city Manggar, dozens of coffee shops can be found lined up along the streets in the downtown area or Manggar Market. Tables and benches where residents gather for coffee lined up to meet the curb. Just choose a coffee shop where you like.
Ake Coffee Shop
Similarly, in Tanjung Pandan, a coffee shop or coffee shop is very easy to find. It is said that people said, Ake Coffee Shop in Tanjung Pandan Market is very famous. That's where I tasted a cup of coffee while visiting Tanjung Pandang some time ago.
Do not imagine this coffeehouse-style of building design cool cafes in Jakarta. This coffee shop is located in the middle of shop-walled building that partially dull the paint peeling. In the middle of the shop there is a patch of yard. That's where this coffee shop stood for decades.
There are a lot of glass in front of the shop. The building is far from good. Some parts of the chip shop wall. While the zinc roof of a partially rusted dark brown-black. In front of the shop there are small tables. Some wooden table partly roundtable of cement. If you want to sit in there too long table against the wall.
Not just drinking coffee
In the Pacific Islands, as well as coastal culture in Sumatra, people drink coffee not just enjoy the coffee. Far more important than taste a cup of coffee is a social interaction in a moment of drinking the coffee. So drinking coffee in coffee shops will lose their meaning if we enjoy it alone. Unlike the Starbucks-style coffee shop in Jakarta where people come alone and opened laptops.
In the tradition of the Malay coast, drinking coffee is the moment of sharing stories and information. Also the moment to the discussion. No wonder if spending a cup of coffee can mamakan hours.
"If you want to know what's going on in the Pacific Islands today, no need to buy a newspaper. Just come to the coffeehouse. All information will you get there, "said Kusumah, our travel guide from your local travel agent.
Ake area coffee shop called Cafe Glad. Out of nowhere the origin of it. From past been called that. Ake own coffee shop is already in place for four generations. The shop is now guarded by Akiong (53), son of Ake (75), who now lives in Jakarta. Coffee shop was first founded by the grandfather Ake. Akiong do not know exactly what year this coffee shop stand.
In the Pacific Islands cup of coffee presented in a way typical. Coffee powder is poured one by one into each glass, but stirred into a large glass. From the large glass was poured into a glass coffee with a filter shaped like a sock. In this way the coffee grounds do not participate in the glass, which is presented to the customer.
I never drink coffee at some coffee shop in Jambi, Lhokseumawe, and Medan. With different levels of viscosity coffee tastes the same. In Ake stall, coffee served is not too thick, though it is black. Besides heat, there are also common coffee served cold with ice or mixed with sweetened condensed milk.
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