Coffee with no milk, with less sugar. Here’s what’s in the cup, and how to say it like a regular.
Coffee with no milk, with less sugar, hot, in a cup and saucer.
In the cup: 2 pours of kopi · 1 spoon of sugar
| Kopi | Coffee, Nanyang style: beans roasted with sugar and margarine, brewed through a cloth sock. |
| O | No milk. With sugar unless you say kosong. |
| siew dai | Less sweet: less sugar. |
Change it in the decoder · Every word, and where it comes from
Coffee with no milk, with less sugar, 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. siew dai: Less sweet: less sugar.
Say “Kopi-O siew dai”: the drink, then the milk (O or C), then how strong, how sweet and hot or cold. Iced, it’s “Kopi-O siew dai peng”. To take it away, it’s “Kopi-O siew dai tapau”.
A little: less sugar spooned in.
2 pours of kopi, 1 spoon of sugar, hot. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi-O siew dai is made with no milk (O); Kopi siew dai is made with condensed milk: coffee with less condensed milk, so less sweet, 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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