Coffee with no milk and no sugar, iced. Here’s what’s in the cup, and how to say it like a regular.
Coffee with no milk and no sugar, over ice, in a glass.
In the cup: 2 pours of kopi · ice
| Kopi | Coffee, Nanyang style: beans roasted with sugar and margarine, brewed through a cloth sock. |
| O | No milk. With sugar unless you say kosong. |
| kosong | No sugar. |
| peng | Iced, in a tall glass. |
Change it in the decoder · Every word, and where it comes from
Coffee with no milk and no sugar, over ice, in a glass. Kopi: Coffee, Nanyang style: beans roasted with sugar and margarine, brewed through a cloth sock. O: No milk. With sugar unless you say kosong. kosong: No sugar. peng: Iced, in a tall glass.
Say “Kopi-O kosong peng”: the drink, then the milk (O or C), then how strong, how sweet and hot or cold. To take it away, it’s “Kopi-O kosong peng tapau”.
Not at all: no sugar.
2 pours of kopi, ice. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi-O kosong peng is made with no milk (O); Kopi-C kosong peng is made with evaporated milk (C): coffee with evaporated milk and no sugar, over ice, in a glass.
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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