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Coffee?
This is the best coffee Myanmar can offer and it’s pretty bloody awful. 
Coffeemix three-in-one sachets. That’s instant coffee, instant milk, and instant sugar all in the one convenient sachet. The only alternative to Coffeemix that I’ve encountered is pretty dire and tastes like coffee grounds recycled fifteen times and wrung through an old sock with a bit of dishwater added to balance the flavours. A shop in Nyaung U advertised espresso in the window but their machine was broken. It’s almost, at a long and desperate stretch, a relief to find a sachet of Coffeemix at breakfast.
You just open the sachet, tip it into a cup, pour over hot water and hey presto! Coffee! Or something like that.
I don’t think I have ever been so under-caffeinated in my entire life. I drink gallons of Chinese tea with meals. When you order black tea here, it is actually black, so strong and tannin-tart that it is pretty hard to drink. Tea with milk is usually the same with a bit of powdered milk stirred in. If you’re really unlucky, you score a three-in-one tea sachet which is very bad news. I think if I drank a decent cup of coffee, I wouldn’t stop jiggling for days. I also think I would be very happy. A strong cappuccino from a café would be ideal but I’d cope with stovetop espresso, I’d cope with a cup of plunger coffee, I’d even cope with a cup of Blend 43, for crying out loud. If the traveller must (yawn) face the challenge of breaking habits and redefining her comfort zone, the caffeine situation is certainly amplifying the challenges for me.
Coffeemix three-in-one sachets. That’s instant coffee, instant milk, and instant sugar all in the one convenient sachet. The only alternative to Coffeemix that I’ve encountered is pretty dire and tastes like coffee grounds recycled fifteen times and wrung through an old sock with a bit of dishwater added to balance the flavours. A shop in Nyaung U advertised espresso in the window but their machine was broken. It’s almost, at a long and desperate stretch, a relief to find a sachet of Coffeemix at breakfast.
You just open the sachet, tip it into a cup, pour over hot water and hey presto! Coffee! Or something like that.
I don’t think I have ever been so under-caffeinated in my entire life. I drink gallons of Chinese tea with meals. When you order black tea here, it is actually black, so strong and tannin-tart that it is pretty hard to drink. Tea with milk is usually the same with a bit of powdered milk stirred in. If you’re really unlucky, you score a three-in-one tea sachet which is very bad news. I think if I drank a decent cup of coffee, I wouldn’t stop jiggling for days. I also think I would be very happy. A strong cappuccino from a café would be ideal but I’d cope with stovetop espresso, I’d cope with a cup of plunger coffee, I’d even cope with a cup of Blend 43, for crying out loud. If the traveller must (yawn) face the challenge of breaking habits and redefining her comfort zone, the caffeine situation is certainly amplifying the challenges for me.
1 comment:
respect for overcoming your addiction :P
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