Coffee with extra condensed milk, so extra sweet. Here’s what’s in the cup, and how to say it like a regular.
Coffee with extra condensed milk, so extra sweet, hot, in a cup and saucer.
In the cup: 2 pours of kopi · 3 squeezes of condensed milk
| Kopi | Coffee, Nanyang style: beans roasted with sugar and margarine, brewed through a cloth sock. |
| (no O or C) | Condensed milk: thick and sweet, so it’s the sugar too. |
| ga dai | More sweet: more condensed milk. |
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Coffee with extra condensed milk, so extra sweet, hot, in a cup and saucer. Kopi: Coffee, Nanyang style: beans roasted with sugar and margarine, brewed through a cloth sock. (no O or C): Condensed milk: thick and sweet, so it’s the sugar too. ga dai: More sweet: more condensed milk.
Say “Kopi ga dai”: the drink, then the milk (O or C), then how strong, how sweet and hot or cold. Iced, it’s “Kopi ga dai peng”. To take it away, it’s “Kopi ga dai tapau”.
Extra sweet: extra condensed milk.
2 pours of kopi, 3 squeezes of condensed milk, hot. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi ga dai is more sweet; Kopi is normal sweet: coffee with condensed milk, hot, in a cup and saucer.
From the kopi order decoder: type any order and see what’s in the cup. Think you can make them fast? Play the kopi game.
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