SMEA Cafe - The Source of Inspiration for Steemian

Coffee drinking culture has become one of most importance thing in daily activities for the Acehnese peoples. It can be interpreted as a special tradition for the Acehnese peoples for spending their plenty time to hang out at the coffee shop.

The barista of SMEA shows his performance for making a special coffee

Especially for the tourists who visit Banda Aceh, they would find many cafeterias which located along the street. The coffee shops in Aceh used as hangout place while enjoying favorite drinks such as sanger (coffee mixed with milk), kupi pancong, sanger arabica (a special arabica coffee) and others. Now the cafeteria began to change where customers who come from various circles want to spend long hours while accessing free internet services.

The view of SMEA at the front side

One of most precious cafe that I discussed is SMEA cafe. Although was built only simple constructed, the shop which located at Jalan T. Nyak Makam, Lampineung, Banda Aceh is one of most attractive for coffee lovers. The visitors also come from various circles, including students, artists to officials though. The coffee menu provided here is very diverse, such as black coffee, sanger coffee. There is also an espresso menu, coffee mongoose and any natural juicy. In terms of food provided also varied, such as savory rice, lontong, special bread jam from Samahani, pulot, and various other dishes.

"Nowadays cafetaria here is not just having a coffee break, but it's also as the source of inspiration and creative ideas," said Anwar Abdullah (@anwarabdullah), the manager assistant of SMEA cafe.

Aan (@anwarabdullah) is calculating about the demand role

The figure who is familiarly called Aan said, every day SMEA Cafeteria never deserted. Even since morning there are visitors who come. After ordering coffee and other menus, they generally open the laptop directly. Most visitors who are dominated by students, artists, journalists and entrepreneurs are on average many become Steemian like @vannour, @ejhaasteem, @matajingga, @boynashruddin, @munaa, @tarmiziahamid, @anwarabdullah and others. They are all part of the Aceh Steemit Community group. The last Steemit account I mentioned is the belonged to Aan, the assistant of SMEA café.

"Aceh Steemit Community is a community that focuses on the Acehnese special issues, including the traditions, travel, history, etc. The goal is to promote Aceh to the world community as a friendly area in receiving guests, "said Aan.

Aan confessed, initially he knew Steemit at the end of 2016 then, but he joined on March 2017.
At that time there are some colleagues from visitors SMEA cafe invited him for join and doing a Bitcoin business on Steemit. Initially, he did not pay much attention because it focuses on his work, which is managing SMEA cafe. Eventually, Aan became more interested in learning what Steemit was.

"At that time I have started actively learning Steemit from my friends to understand. Vice versa, if anyone new to know and want to learn Steemit, I will help as much as possible. We just need to give something wonderful by sharing our knowledge each other, "said Aan again.