Coffee with condensed milk, iced. Here’s what’s in the cup, and how to say it like a regular.
Coffee with condensed milk, over ice, in a glass.
In the cup: 2 pours of kopi · 2 squeezes of condensed milk · ice
| 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. |
| peng | Iced, in a tall glass. |
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Coffee with condensed milk, over ice, in a glass. 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. peng: Iced, in a tall glass.
Say “Kopi 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 peng tapau”.
Yes, it’s the sweet one: the condensed milk is the sugar. Say siew dai for less, or C kosong for none.
2 pours of kopi, 2 squeezes of condensed milk, ice. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi peng is made with condensed milk; Kopi-O peng is made with no milk (O): coffee with no milk, with 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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