Singapore’s Own Coffee – Complete List Of Kopi Variations

June 4th, 2009 - In Singapore Gourmet

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Complete List Of Kopi Variations

Never get lost again if you stand in front of your kopi shop and you dont know how to ask for a Coffee without sugar or More Milk. Here is a list of all coffee / kopi terms in Singapore.

• Kopi: Coffee with condensed milk
• Kopi-O: Coffee without milk and only sugar
• Kopi-C: Coffee with evaporated milk
• Kopi-gau: Coffee (strong brew)
• Kopi-po: Coffee (weak brew)
• Kopi-C-kosong: Coffee with evaporated milk and no sugar (’kosong” means empty in Malay)
• Kopi-O-kosong: Coffee without sugar or milk
• Kopi-O-kosong-gau: A strong brew of coffee without sugar or milk
• Kopi-bing or Kopi-ice or Kopi-Peng: Coffee with milk, sugar and ice
• Kopi-xiu-dai: Coffee with less sugar
• Kopi-gah-dai: Coffee with extra sweetened milk
• Kopi-Di-Lo: All coffee, no water

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8 Comments for this post

Grace

Jun 5, 2009 at 3:09 pm

Please note that the above mentioned are for piping hot coffees.

If you’d like your coffee with ice on a hot Sunny Singapore day, please add peng at the end of the phrases (Kopi-peng- iced coffee with condensed milk please)

-winks-

Mark

Jun 6, 2009 at 11:28 pm

Useful! “Kopi-Di-Lo”

I guess that one is like a huge espresso?

admin

Jul 17, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Kopi Peng Sui Tai!!! (i bet thats spelled wrong, but i finally learned how to use it :)

A.J

Jul 28, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Finally i know how to order the kopi I want!

Jyoan