Bringing you the cool sea breeze and the ancient psychedelic aroma of Asia, Thai traditional iced coffee

If there’s one coffee that can give you a cool ocean breeze and the psychedelic aroma of old Asia on a hot summer day, it’s Thai iced coffee.

Traditional Thai iced coffee is a mixture of very strong coffee, ice cubes, cardamom, a spice native to the East Indies, cream and sugar. A cup of Thai iced coffee made in this way will instantly take you to Phuket under the scorching sun and sea breeze.

Thai coffee usually does not use syrup like Starbucks. Many Thai coffees use condensed milk. Speaking of condensed milk, Thais love it. Many desserts must be added with condensed milk, even coffee. Using condensed milk instead of sugar and creamer makes the taste very rich.

First, prepare a very strong coffee. You can choose dark roasted coffee beans, grind them and set aside. Generally speaking, the amount of coffee used for Thai iced coffee is half or double the amount used for regular coffee. Then put the coffee and fresh green cardamom in a filter and pour water to extract the coffee liquid. You can let the extracted coffee dry for a while to let it cool naturally.

Thai iced coffee recipe

Take a 350ml glass and add a full cup of ice cubes to the glass until it is level with the rim.

Use a coffee machine to extract 75ml of espresso. If you don't have a coffee machine, you can use a moka pot to extract it. Then add a spoonful of condensed milk and stir well. (The spoon is a stainless steel spoon used for eating at home)

Pour the espresso with condensed milk into a cup filled with ice cubes and stir it with a spoon.

Measure 75ml of black and white evaporated milk, pour it into the cup and stir well. (After pouring the black and white evaporated milk into the cup, it should be about 2-3cm away from the mouth of the cup)

Then you can enjoy it to your heart's content. Condensed milk is the favorite coffee ingredient in Southeast Asia. It has a rich milky aroma and is not too sweet when added with ice cubes. It is a great summer drink.

At low temperatures, strong coffee and fresh cream are diluted by ice water, and you taste the cool, sweet and light coffee flavor. But after a few minutes, you will suddenly find a faint smell of spices lingering in your mouth and mind. Take a breath and do you smell the salty sea breeze?

Eden Iced Coffee Recipe

1. Pour the Italian coffee with sugar water into the shaker until it is 80% full, add passion fruit juice, gin, fresh milk, fill with ice cubes and shake well.

2. Pour into a juice cup and sprinkle cinnamon powder on it.

How to make black crystal ice coffee

1. Pour the single-origin hot coffee into a stainless steel cup, place the cup in a container filled with ice cubes and water, and wait for the coffee to cool.

2. Add 1/3 cup of ice cubes into a shaker, then pour in the cooled coffee, fructose and liquid creamer prepared in step 1 and shake well.

3. Cut the coffee jelly into pieces and put it into the cup. Then pour the coffee shaken in step 2 into the cup.

Precautions for drinking iced coffee

In foreign countries, coffee is as popular as tea in China and has become an indispensable part of life. It seems that there are no taboos or precautions about coffee, but coffee is an imported product after all. There is a big difference between the physique of Chinese people and that of foreigners. Just like foreigners are not used to Chinese tea, Chinese people also have some taboos and harms to coffee. You should pay attention to drinking coffee beans in moderation.

Iced coffee can also make you get angry, so it can also make you fat. Coffee is the same as eating chili oil and chocolate. If you don't exercise after eating, it will increase your calories. The reason why some people say that eating chocolate and chili oil can help you lose weight is that if you exercise immediately 15 minutes after eating, you can burn more calories than if you don't exercise at all, because these things can accelerate the burning of flammable fat in the body.

Avoid drinking coffee while smoking. The caffeine in coffee, under the effect of nicotine and other inducing substances in cigarettes, can easily cause changes in certain tissue cells in the human body and even induce cancer. In the hot summer, many smokers like to drink iced coffee while smoking, which increases the possibility of inducing cancer.

Avoid drinking coffee when drinking. Drinking liquor and caffeinated beverages together will increase the damage of alcohol to the human body. Alcohol and caffeine both have excitatory and inhibitory effects on the brain, causing the brain to switch from extreme excitement to extreme inhibition, stimulating blood vessel dilation, accelerating blood circulation, and greatly increasing the burden on the heart.