He gave us one of the most pleasant and educative tour of the area where he lives at what is called the Rifle Range Flats area near Air Itam. His father owns a coffee shop somewhere close to his flat.
What is Nanyang Coffee? That's what we were there to learn, how to prepare it the old traditional way and the modernized version. I was surprised to learn after all these years that word Nan Yang is not the name of a province in China but is used to describe the South East Asian countries. Duh!
Yeah you got to keep stirring the beans so they get evenly burnt, you know when they are ready when you hear the first pop like a popcorn and then followed by others. Tiger's Dad owns a coffee shop close by and no wonder he has a good idea about how to prepare the coffee beans.
Easy to remember, just snap a photo of it! Yes that's the ingredients!
We were walked through the whole process of turning coffee beans into the black coffee that we all enjoy. The ingredients itself was an eye opener. I did not realize that butter and sugar and sesame seed are added to the process in preparing the roasted coffee beans.
Pouring thick black and bitter coffee into the cup is an art when you are using a cloth strainer in the old way. It is tricky if you do not learn how. It is like the tea ceremony where every step matters in the development of a sense of awareness. In pursuit of the so called bigger things in life we tend to take for granted the simple that equally matters. I need sugar in my coffee I told them, sorry, I know sugar is poison and so on, but I am hooked on it. So no bitter coffee for this guy. Then out of the blue one of the tour members a gentle man from China handed me the most tasty sweet black coffee he had prepared.
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