Coffee, this sweet and tasty hot cup that indicates the beginning of a day. Coffee warms us, wakes us, stimulates us and we love both the taste alone at breakfast, only to share the terrace or in the office.
Long, short, hazelnut, espresso, tight, double, or served with a thin layer of milk foam, everyone loves in his own way. But how coffee is it appreciated beyond our borders? What is certain is that it becomes difficult to get the flavor of the coffee "from home" when we travel. This is most likely already in Europe with some variations, in Spain it will prompt you to "con hielo" with ice or "sweet" with then condensed milk in Italy one can drink Corretto with eau-de-vie grape marc, and it will be stronger or weaker in the mouth from one country to another. But on other continents, it is a real adventure to drink a local cafe, a discovery that your taste buds will remember for a long time, that you raffoliez or on the contrary you hate it.
Here are nine ways the strangest tasting coffee worldwide, but who knows one of them might become your favorite?
1. COFFEE KOPI Luwak
This is the most expensive coffee in the world, why? Because the seeds were selected in the feces of a small animal Indonesian Luwak or Civet called forest. After being left to dry and roasted coffee flavor is so subtle, with hints of caramel or chocolate. Its rarity and global production (only 200 kg per year) makes it an exceptional coffee, but if you travel in this part of the world make sure you know the Kopi Luwak from, civets are often captured and put into battery and not breeding, resulting gradually disappearance of the animal. At boycott.
2. COFFEE PEPPER
In Morocco the coffee will not be appreciated without black pepper. In addition to these grains, Moroccans also like to add to their cup of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg or cloves. Wherever you are in Morocco your coffee will be hot!
3. COFFEE SALTY
No I do not confuse sugar and salt. In fact it pretty common in some countries to add a few grains of salt in his coffee. This is the case in Hungary, Turkey, Siberia or Ethiopia. But be aware that the dose subtly salt come cut the bitterness of the coffee.
4. THE JOSS KOPI
The particularity of this coffee? A glowing charcoal is added to the beverage to neutralize the acidity of the coffee. Found the Kopi Joss Indonesia, it is ideal for people complaining gurgling after drinking coffee a classic. Then a steaming cup anyone?
5. THE KOPI GU YOU OR COFFEE BUTTER
Dissolve the butter in a hot cup of coffee, it may seem strange and yet it is a very popular across the world drink. Originally from Singapore, preparation is rich and creamy, butter releases a sweet aroma and makes the morning coffee creamy wish.
6. COFFEE CHEESECAKE
For cheese lovers we are, the idea of soaking in coffee seems totally improbable. Yet for Hispanics or Swedish it is natural to dive into a hot cup of coffee or a piece of gouda Leipäjuusto of a made from cow colostrum Finnish cheese. It will then be eaten after being slightly melted.
7. COFFEE EGG
Coffee egg is appreciated in different countries, each with their own way of preparing it. Americans with Scandinavian origins around the use with the shell mixed with ground coffee, while in Vietnam the Trung Ca Phe is prepared, café that is whipped with egg yolks and condensed milk for a drink sweet and fluffy.
8. THE ELEPHANT COFFEE BOUSE
Kopi Luwak as the Indonesian, the seeds of what coffee has the distinction of being recovered in the feces of the animal as the elephant did not digest. It's in Thailand that you can taste the very expensive coffee dung of elephants ... I do not know why, but it does not tempt me, do you?
9. COFFEE WITH LEMON
Was mixed with lemon juice in Brazil or Italy, this coffee is an effective remedy against migraine. I'm not sure that the taste is exquisite cocktail but caffeine and vitamin C must surely be very effective to wake up.
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