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Originally Posted by alexander
Yeah, i prefer small shops filled with Turks, if you ask me, i like to drink my arabica, Arabic-style (strong coffee prepared in these pots, where you boil water and then add coffee and boil it some more and it comes out sooo good, no cream, no sugar, and a cup of ice water, you take a sip of coffee, and before the next sip, you take a sip of water to cleanse the senses.... such an enjoyable experience, and it definitely turns heads at a coffee shop here in the US  ) |
I am with you there.
Not abig Turkish community here although strong ties because of Anzac Cove (WW1)
The Leabnese here make a'short black' with about and inch of grounds in the bottom. You can certainly stand up a spoon in it.
My daughter was a 'barista" briefly in a new shop in London. The new machine broke down (probably because no-one knew how to work it). The Italian repair man after af ew minutes talking to her about the machine said
"Who are you you are not English?"
"No I come from Australia"
" Ah; Australians; they know how to make coffee."
Still you can get crap coffee, in my own restaurant I would often pull lousy coffee from our $8,ooo Italian machine. while others like my daughter could pull a lovely cup every time. it seems areal art.
Keeping the machine VERY clean is part of it.
Often you get a lousy coffee in Malls where they have not cleaned their machine for a day or so. The coffee granules get into the machine and you get a burnt flavour. sheer ignorance and laziness. I take it back tell them to clen their machine and get my money back (I am allowed to be a
cranky old man now)
The old inner city suburbs full of -now very wealthy- migrants is the place to go for good coffee. (The inner city suburbs were not fashionable when the migrants arrived (mostly after ww2) now homes are worth many millions)
I think that, like chocolate, many seem to have lost their taste for bitter things and drink week, luke-warm coffee and eat that abomination "White Chocolate" (What is that?).
Never thought of the glass of water; but an excellent Idea
