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Sparklette Food Poll! What is your morning pick-me-up – tea or coffee?

By Veron Ang | Tags #coffee #tea

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I am having a lot of fun interacting with readers on Twitter and Facebook. To spice things up even more, I thought it might be interesting to run some food polls. This way we can learn more from one another and maybe even try out new food!

To start things off, I tweeted an impromptu question last night:

What is your morning pick-me-up – tea or coffee?

For a simple either-or question, a surprisingly good mix of responses came in!

From Twitter,

GrowlyBear tweets: Coffee
beaker133 tweets: soda or tea, I do not drink coffee ever
don_alano tweets: Has to be coffee
nickpan tweets: kopi C peng

From Facebook,

Joel Pan says: Milk.
Jennifer Hardy says: tea :)
Merv Kwok says: coffee
WeeKee Chia says: coke? :D
Saul Sio says: Milo
Elf Seah says: coffee
Edmund Ng says: milk and cereals
Anastasia Sin says: kopi o kao ka dai
Khairani Moktar says: teh c

That’s a whole range of answers! No one said beer?

As an avid coffee drinker myself, I start each morning with a hot cup of kopi si. This is, quite simply, coffee with evaporated milk. It’s less sweet than the sugar and condensed milk variety. Personally I find that the evaporated milk gives the drink a smoother and well-rounded texture.

What’s your morning pick-me-up?

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Veron Ang is the founder and chief editor of Sparklette. She lives in Singapore and has dined and traveled across the world. She also runs Sparklette Studio, a web design and WordPress development firm. If you'd like to connect with her, head on over to the contact page or follow her personal updates on Twitter: @VeronSG.

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auntie lucia
September 17, 2009

Agree with you abt evaporated milk improving the taste of coffee, esp the very strong type. For me, I always start the morning with coffee, with seven teaspoonfuls of mix rolled oats, steel cut oats and wheat germ bran added to the coffee powder, all topped off with some Oatley oat milk! A complete breakfast in one large cup!
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- Veron
  September 18, 2009
  
  That’s a power-packed breakfast in a cup, with a caffeine kick!
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py
September 17, 2009

I drink soya bean milk in the morning most of the time.
If I am forced to choose between tea and coffee, tea with milk will be my choice.
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- Veron
  September 18, 2009
  
  Healthy, healthy! Is that home-made soya milk?
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Kidtalentz
September 17, 2009

sparklette@ Sparklette Food Poll! What is your morning pick-me-up – tea or coffee?: i tweeted an impr.. http://bit.ly/M7DoP

This comment was originally posted on Twitter
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guerrillapoet
September 17, 2009

RT @sparklette: Sparklette.net: Sparklette Food Poll! What is your morning pick-me-up – tea or coffee? http://bit.ly/M7DoP

This comment was originally posted on Twitter
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ping
September 18, 2009

mine’s kopi-o gao kosong :)
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- Veron
  September 18, 2009
  
  Whoa, that’s hardcore!
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sheida
September 18, 2009

ice milo can or not?
if not, tea lah…
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bOOts
September 18, 2009

hmmm … milk or juice …
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pkchukiss
September 18, 2009

It depends on what I’m doing on the day: if I didn’t have enough sleep the day before, and I have an important assignment, I would go for coffee with extra milk and sugar (kopi kah dai). Otherwise, it’s tak kiew less ice for me.
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Jiun Hao Neoh
September 18, 2009

Tropicana Premium Orange Juice :P (with extra pulp)
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- Veron
  September 20, 2009
  
  Nice :) That’s something my mom would approve of.
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Suzanne
September 19, 2009

definitely coffee o
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Melissa
September 20, 2009

Coffee for me too :)
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- Veron
  September 20, 2009
  
  Many coffee drinkers here :)
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jalapeno
September 20, 2009

Teh tarik when I can get it! :) Latte would be ideal though.
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- Veron
  September 21, 2009
  
  Teh Tarik is my favorite, too! I love it when the guy really “tarik” the drink so that it has a nice thick frothy layer. The one at the hawker center near my place only “tarik” it once, so it is no difference from the regular and cheaper Teh!
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jalapeno
September 20, 2009

Would you say S’pore is a tea or coffee culture? Seems split but my guess is coffee (or kopi) has the lion’s share.

Then there’s Godzillas & Dinosaurs and Teh Cino/ Kopi Cino. Wonder if Malaysia will claim these as theirs as well. :)
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- Veron
  September 21, 2009
  
  Looking at all the Ya Kun and Toast Box outlets whose main specialties are coffee and toast, the western coffee chains like Coffee Bean and tcc, and the sheer number of coffee variations offered at your friendly neighborhood coffee shops, I would definitely say that Singapore has a coffee culture :)
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Fei
September 21, 2009

Can I say something citrusy like unsweetened grapefruit and orange juice (with pulp) as like what Juin Hao voted for.

Not a drinker of coffees and teas. Ocassionally an ice-coffee with lots of condensed milk is a nice start. If tea, there has to be a slice of lemon. Plain tea is simply hard to take (whatever flavours or infusions).

Anyone likes bread with condensed milk and milo powder. Suddenly remembered the crazy things I used to do as a kid, stealing scoops of horlicks, milo or ovaltine and eating them by the spoonfuls…. that was the perk-me-up for the day when no one is around. (usually get caught when adult finds the spoon missing or with fossilised evidence)..
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- Veron
  September 25, 2009
  
  Fruity drinks are certainly much healthier than the caffeinated ones. That said, I don’t think I can ever say no to my morning coffee. It’s been a decade long routine! Plus, I love the first whiff of coffee aroma in the morning :)
  
  Now that you mention it, I remember doing the exact same thing with the bread when I was a kid! I learned it from my brother actually, to spread condensed milk and milo powder on bread! lol! Thanks for reminding me of my fond childhood memories. I have almost forgotten.
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  - Fei
    September 25, 2009
    
    That’s not all. I think I dripped condensed milk over Jacob’s biscuit too and watched the milk drip through the ‘holes’ in the seu-dar bia. Hahahaha. After that I sometimes dunk the entire piece into a cup of over-saturated milo drink.
    
    I used to cough like mad after these sinful steals. That’s when my mom will check the tins and find evidence of over-indulgence.
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    - Veron
      September 25, 2009
      
      lol that is so adorable! You must have been one cute kid! :D
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      - Fei
        September 25, 2009
        
        Actually maybe you could have a new thread on ‘Stuff you did with food as a kid’ or something. I always thought I was weird, eating milo and all until I realised other people also had such kid-recipes when they were small. I don’t think by mom felt i was adorable. For sure i wasn’t, for contaminating the 1kg tin of milo, leaving behind a spoon with hardened substances in the tin. Hahahaha…
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  - Fei
    September 25, 2009
    
    Forgot to respond to what you wrote about the aroma of coffee. I don’t drink coffee or tea but I do absolutely love the smell of coffee! So yes, the smell of coffee is the sure wake-me-up:)
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