A little bit of both; I live in a largely Southeast Asian neighborhood, and if you go to one of the Asian groceries here, they sell an individual filter contraption that you fill with finely ground espresso roast coffee, pour in hot water, and when it’s all dripped into your coffee cup, add sweetened condensed milk. Yum!
If only they made it decaf; it’s the perfect ending to a Vietnamese dinner, but if I have caffeine past about 1 or 2 pm, I’m up all night and then completely scrambled for a day or two.
Although, realistically, I wimp out and have regular, brewed coffee. I do make up for the quality by drinking it in huge quantities, black, no sugar, the way God intended.
Unable to find such a contraption, (it is simply called a coffee filter, the process is called decocting) I ended up buying a MR Coffee Maker which just doesn’t measure up. I can’t believe you managed to find one. Damn!
In case I find it in an Asian store, can I use regular ground coffee?
(Oh, and even regular milk works well with that thick concotion)
I’m progressively becoming a coffee wimp. While in school, black was great- no muss, no fuss; just grab it and go. However, once into the workforce, there was generally cream and sugar available and I gradually started down that evil road of coffee bastardization. Lately, things have taken a turn for the worse. While car camping a friend brought along one of those flavored creamers and now I’m addicted to the damn french vanilla stuff - even though it makes your coffee so sweet you can feel the teeth rotting in your head.
I must be a coffee anomaly. I like my morning coffee black and my afternoon coffee with 2 sugars. I prefer it with the sugar, but I need it strong and bitter to wake me up!
