Coffee with condensed milk, strong, with less water. Here’s what’s in the cup, and how to say it like a regular.
Coffee with condensed milk, strong, with less water, hot, in a cup and saucer.
In the cup: 3 pours of kopi · 2 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. |
| gao | Stronger: more kopi, less water. |
Change it in the decoder · Every word, and where it comes from
Coffee with condensed milk, strong, with less water, 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. gao: Stronger: more kopi, less water.
Say “Kopi gao”: the drink, then the milk (O or C), then how strong, how sweet and hot or cold. Iced, it’s “Kopi gao peng”. To take it away, it’s “Kopi gao tapau”.
Yes, it’s the sweet one: the condensed milk is the sugar. Say siew dai for less, or C kosong for none.
3 pours of kopi, 2 squeezes of condensed milk, hot. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi gao is normal sweet; Kopi gao siew dai is less sweet: coffee with less condensed milk, so less sweet, strong, with less water, 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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