Coffee with no milk and no sugar, strong, with less water. Here’s what’s in the cup, and how to say it like a regular.
Coffee with no milk and no sugar, strong, with less water, hot, in a cup and saucer.
In the cup: 3 pours of kopi
| Kopi | Coffee, Nanyang style: beans roasted with sugar and margarine, brewed through a cloth sock. |
| O | No milk. With sugar unless you say kosong. |
| gao | Stronger: more kopi, less water. |
| kosong | No sugar. |
Change it in the decoder · Every word, and where it comes from
Coffee with no milk and no sugar, 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. O: No milk. With sugar unless you say kosong. gao: Stronger: more kopi, less water. kosong: No sugar.
Say “Kopi-O gao kosong”: the drink, then the milk (O or C), then how strong, how sweet and hot or cold. Iced, it’s “Kopi-O gao kosong peng”. To take it away, it’s “Kopi-O gao kosong tapau”.
Not at all: no sugar.
3 pours of kopi, hot. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi-O gao kosong is stronger; Kopi-O kosong is normal strength: 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.
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