Koen’s Coffee Corner part of Mylifestyleblogs.com Channel

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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