Questions
What is Kopi kosong?
Coffee with evaporated milk and no sugar (most likely: condensed milk can’t be made unsweet), 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. kosong: No sugar. With condensed milk that can’t be done, so say C or O too.
How do you order Kopi kosong?
Say “Kopi kosong”: the drink, then the milk (O or C), then how strong, how sweet and hot or cold. Iced, it’s “Kopi kosong peng”. To take it away, it’s “Kopi kosong tapau”.
What will the uncle give me?
Condensed milk is already sweet, so “kopi kosong” makes the uncle ask “C or O?”. Most give you kopi-C kosong: evaporated milk, no sugar. Say C or O to be sure.
Is Kopi kosong sweet?
It’s meant to have no sugar, but condensed milk can’t be unsweet, so most uncles make it kopi-C kosong (evaporated milk, no sugar) or ask “C or O?”.
What’s in a cup of Kopi kosong?
2 pours of kopi, a pour of evaporated milk, hot. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi kosong vs Kopi-O kosong: what’s the difference?
Kopi kosong is made with condensed milk; Kopi-O kosong is made with no milk (O): coffee with no milk and no sugar, 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.