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!
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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?
Sep 17, 2009
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@sparklette oh ah then I upgrade my choice from just coffee to Kopi-C :)
Sep 17, 2009
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@GrowlyBear Oh that’ll be 10 cents more.
Sep 17, 2009
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@sparklette But worth it I believe. and for just 10 cents too :)
Sep 17, 2009
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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!
Sep 18, 2009
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That’s a power-packed breakfast in a cup, with a caffeine kick!
Sep 17, 2009
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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.
Sep 18, 2009
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Healthy, healthy! Is that home-made soya milk?
Sep 18, 2009
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mine’s kopi-o gao kosong :)
Sep 18, 2009
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Whoa, that’s hardcore!
Sep 18, 2009
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ice milo can or not?
if not, tea lah…
Sep 18, 2009
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hmmm … milk or juice …
Sep 18, 2009
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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.
Sep 18, 2009
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Tropicana Premium Orange Juice :P (with extra pulp)
Sep 20, 2009
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Nice :) That’s something my mom would approve of.
Sep 19, 2009
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definitely coffee o
Sep 20, 2009
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Coffee for me too :)
Sep 20, 2009
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Many coffee drinkers here :)
Sep 20, 2009
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Teh tarik when I can get it! :) Latte would be ideal though.
Sep 21, 2009
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Teh Tarik is my favourite, 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 centre near my place only “tarik” it once, so it is no difference from the regular and cheaper Teh!
Sep 20, 2009
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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. :)
Sep 21, 2009
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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 neighbourhood coffee shops, I would definitely say that Singapore has a coffee culture :)
Sep 21, 2009
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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)..
Sep 25, 2009
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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.
Sep 25, 2009
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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.
Sep 25, 2009
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lol that is so adorable! You must have been one cute kid! :D
Sep 25, 2009
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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…
Sep 25, 2009
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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:)