Coffee with less condensed milk, so less sweet. Here’s what’s in the cup, and how to say it like a regular.
Coffee with less condensed milk, so less sweet, hot, in a cup and saucer.
In the cup: 2 pours of kopi · 1 squeeze 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. |
| siew dai | Less sweet: less condensed milk. |
Change it in the decoder · Every word, and where it comes from
Coffee with less condensed milk, so less sweet, 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. siew dai: Less sweet: less condensed milk.
Say “Kopi siew dai”: the drink, then the milk (O or C), then how strong, how sweet and hot or cold. Iced, it’s “Kopi siew dai peng”. To take it away, it’s “Kopi siew dai tapau”.
Less than plain: less condensed milk, so less sweet. Siew siew dai is even less.
2 pours of kopi, 1 squeeze of condensed milk, hot. Every stall pours its own, so it’s a picture, not a measure.
Kopi siew dai is made with condensed milk; Kopi-O siew dai is made with no milk (O): coffee with no milk, with less 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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