My Daily Coffee
— Koen • August 18th, 2007
Blogs should be personal — a good blog should tell a bit about its author. So today its my turn to reveal myself. The real me. I’m Koen. And all about my life have been told in detail both in Indonesian, English, and French. So I’d prefer to write how I prepare my coffee everyday.
As a typical Indonesian coffee lover, I used to make my daily coffee as kopi tubruk. Hmm, how to translate it to English? Impact coffee? Collision coffee? Caffè collizione? Hah. To prepare it, you’d simply put two teaspoonful of coffee grain to your mug, add some sugar (typical Indonesian, as I have mentioned), put the hot water, and stir them all. C’est tout.
It is just last week that my brother-in-law gave me his coffee maker. So far, I still haven’t used it. I still prefer to prepare my espresso with my Moka Express. See the picture here. It is a Bialetti stove. It has two part: the thorax and the abdoment, separated by two specially designed filters. The abdoment is a water tank. To prepare the coffee, fill the water tank with … water. Coffee grain are put between two filters. Apply an external thermal source (any burner you have at home) boil the water. Say “avara kadavra” to start the black magic. In one minute or so, the fresh black espresso would fill the thorax of the stove, by magic. And the water on the tank would be magically disappear. None ever understand the real process.
En fin, this afternoon I enjoy my Estate Java espresso. Hey, d’you have your own story on preparing your daily coffee? Please mail me: kuncoro at asiablogging dot com. I’d love to post your story here.
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lady day
i love coffee and i do prepare my own espresso/cappucino/latte — from grinding the bean to the final touch. it only takes me less than 10 minutes to do all, with Aerobie AeroPress. The details come later, OK? it’s 3:50 am and I need to sleep!
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Riri Satria
Hey, I guess I am a kind of coffee-lover, where Starbucks is my favorite place to meet friends anyway … good to see this coffee blog … keep this good work … thank you
Cheers
Riri
September 29th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Toni
Other than espresso machine, Bialetti stove is my tool. We still can have a bold coffee for a morning treat.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Budi
Please give me info, where I can buy this Moka Express in Jakarta / Bandung ? Please….
February 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
aaqq
i use it for the last three months. it rocks!
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Gary platon
Hi Koen..
Great blogsite.
Im living in Bali.. they grow some great beans up on Mt Kintomani here… actually I lke them so much, I want to roast them and sell them in Australia.. trouble is, Im having big problems finding a company who can roast , pack and export coffee for us.
can you help out… any company.. malang, surabaya. jakarta.. who would you suggest??
Thanks
Gary
March 14th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Andy
Thanks infonya Pak Kuncoro! Tapi saya masih belum nemu Moka Pot waktu ke Toeng Market, bisa kasih info ngga kalo mo beli di Surabaya di mana ya? Andy.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:32 pm
TRIA NURAGUSTINA
You can easily buy BIALETTI at METRO DEPT STORE jakarta atau di Starbucks (021)5746501
January 23rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
Aris
Pak Koen,
Ulasan yang sangat menarik. Saya sedang mencari coffee roaster kapasitas kecil sekitar 300 gram above. Bisa kasih saran dan sekalian dimana bisa mendapatkan nya. ^_^
Thanks in advance and have a great weekend.
BR.
April 24th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Jeff
Kopi Tubruk could be mentioned in english as “Collision Coffee” a.k.a “Rushed Coffee” a.k.a “Mud Coffee”.
Greetings from another end of the city… :)
http://kopitubruk-kayumanis.blogspot.com/2009/01/kopi-tubruk-mud-coffee.html
June 30th, 2009 at 4:08 pm