Who needs St***ucks when you have kopitiam. Kopitiam is a local coffee shop, kopi=meaning coffee in Malay and tiam=shop in Hokkien dialect. Singapore coffee is quite unique because they roast the coffe with margarine and sugar, giving coffee a very dark roasted finish. Nowadays in Singapore you could also opt for Ipoh's famous(?) white coffee where the coffee beans are not roasted with sugar and also not fully dark roasted, hence its name. When ordering kopi, here are some few tips: kopi kosong=kopi with nothing in it; kopi-si=kopi with evaporated milk and sugar: kopi-o=kopi with sugar only; kopi-ping=kopi with ice (ping is ice in Hokkien dialect). Funny that kopitiam is traditionally run by Hainanese but the term is all Hokkien.
Humble Japanese, trying to de-mystify Singapore cuisine and food culture. This is not a restaurant / stall rating blog.
11.24.2008
Kopitiam
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