Duck Cooked in the Manner of Aceh Province

The province of Aceh in the most northerly part of Sumatra is well known as the home of a fiercely independent people. They maintained their independence of Dutch colonial power in a long war that only ended in 1903. The area is now quite prosperous, not overpopulated and with no big cities. Acehnese food shows distinct Arab and Indian influence, because as early as the thirteenth century AD mariners from these countries, sailing to Indonesia in search of spices, made their first landfall h