Coffee with condensed milk, weaker, with extra hot water. Here’s what’s in the cup, and how to say it like a regular.
Coffee with condensed milk, weaker, with extra hot water, hot, in a cup and saucer.
In the cup: 1 pour of kopi · a splash of hot water · 2 squeezes of condensed milk
| 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. |
| po | Weaker: less kopi, more hot water. |
Change it in the decoder · Every word, and where it comes from
Coffee with condensed milk, weaker, with extra hot water, 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. po: Weaker: less kopi, more hot water.
Say “Kopi po”: the drink, then the milk (O or C), then how strong, how sweet and hot or cold. Iced, it’s “Kopi po peng”. To take it away, it’s “Kopi po tapau”.
Yes, it’s the sweet one: the condensed milk is the sugar. Say siew dai for less, or C kosong for none.
1 pour of kopi, a splash of hot water, 2 squeezes of condensed milk, hot. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi po is weaker; Kopi is normal strength: coffee with condensed milk, 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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