Coffee
Some Coffee machines images I’d stolen from Hau
I dunno about coffee, and I learn abit while Hau was here in Shanghai last weekend. There are mainly two species of coffee sold worldwide, known as Arabica and Robusta. Most of our South-east Asian kopi belongs to the Robusta group. They are usually soury in taste, so when I heard that our South-east Asian [...]
The coffee you drink
In the coffee world, there are two commercially-viable species of coffee plants: coffea arabica and coffea canephora. The latter is commonly known as robusta coffee.
Robusta is usually the crap stuff you get off supermarket shelves, like the instant coffee kind. It looks like coffee, smells like coffee, taste like coffee.
But coffee is much more than [...]
conversations at the espresso bar
When you work at a coffeehouse, very rude interesting conversastions can happen.
Here’s one. Burger (yes, nicknames abound in the coffee world) was standing at the LM, holding a portafilter wondering what she would drink, saying that she didn’t want anything too strong but still was enough for her to stay awake. Miss Choo answered her [...]
