Kopi

Nanyang coffee is the traditional Singapore and Malaysian coffee preparation in which Robusta (and often Liberica) beans are wok-roasted with margarine and caramelized sugar, ground coarse, brewed strong through a cloth sock filter, and served with sweetened condensed milk or evaporated milk in a kopitiam (coffee shop). “Nanyang” (南洋) is the Chinese term for the “South Sea” — the historical Southeast-Asian diaspora region — and the name reflects how this style of coffee was carried south by Hainanese immigrants and refined into the kopitiam culture that still defines coffee in Singapore, Malaysia, and parts of Indonesia. ...