Institut Teknologi Bandung

Being part of the GBA's series of events, this occasion was held to introduce and refresh the memories about Aceh culture and its own cultural products. The visitors could see the traditional house prototypes, traditional clothes of 3 main ethnic groups in Aceh, the custom wedding display, cultural artifacts, and various Aceh traditional musical instruments. Besides, there were souvenirs such as purse and shoes with Aceh traditional patterns sold in the event.

While looking at the various cultural heritage from Aceh, the visitor could also enjoy the traditional cuisine from Aceh in the culinary festival with a concept of food stalls in Aceh. In this festival, the visitor could taste the traditional noodle of Aceh, Aceh famous coffee, teh tarik (milk tea--red), nasi gurih (buttered rice--red), martabak Aceh (Aceh traditional omelette), Cane bread, rujak Aceh (Aceh mixed salad) with special spices, and many others.

Beside the main courses, there were also Aceh traditional desserts that might be not very much familiar with people. They were timpan, baked pulut that resembled sticky rice, kekarah or bird's nest cookies, coffee mixed with eggs, and Aceh milk called sanger.

To build the food stall in Aceh's atmosphere, there were used the circle tables to enable the visitors interacting with each other. "Aceh people like to socialize. Chatting while having food is one of the boldest Aceh tradition," said Zhilal Yusya (Industrial Engineering 2010), one of the organizing committees of GBA's cultural exhibition and culinary festival. The stalls are decorated with red, yellow, and green colors, which were the basic colors in Aceh tradition.

"I really miss Aceh cuisine. It has been 10 years I stayed in Bandung and the exhibition with the culinary festival make me feel nostalgic about my hometown. I hope this event can be held once a year, as a nostalgia for traveler like me," said Mamat Suharto, one of the visitors whose hometown was in Lhokseumawe.

This occasion wasn't the same with any others. In the end of the day, the visitors were entertained with the performance of mass dance from the participants of Saman dance workshop who had been practicing for about one month. Beneath the rain, the dancers were still high-spirited to do Ratoh Duek dance as the closing of the event.