Post by dontom on Nov 1, 2014 14:20:51 GMT -5
In some of the Salvation Army stores in this area, they sell coffee from Pleiku, Vietnam. Pleiku was my home base camp in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, but it seemed I spent more time in An Khe, a bit to the east. Anyway, I had no idea Pleiku was in the coffee business. But I just had to try it and now Tom & I are.
It says on the package "Cafe Lav, regular, Pleiku, Vietnam". Package says it is made from 75% Vietnamese Robusta beans and 25% El Salvador Arabica beans.
It will be weak if it's made like regular coffee. Instructions say "use two tablespoons of coffee for each six ounces of cold water". I don't understand the "cold" part.
Once a couple of years ago, Tom & I ordered some Vietnamese coffee in a Vietnamese restaurant. We couldn't sleep for around three days after. This Vietnamese stuff is strong. So we make this stuff today on the weak side.
It tastes good, IMO, better than most American coffees or coffees that most Americans like. But Tom & I like Italian roast coffee the best of all. In year 2000, in a restaurant in London we told them to keep the cream and sugar out (the default there is to have it in, if you say nothing). And then we thought it was the best tasting coffee we both ever had. So then we asked what it was, and they told us it was "Italian roast" and we have been using it here ever since.
BTW, I cannot stand French Roast that many Americans seem to like.
-Don- SSF, CA
It says on the package "Cafe Lav, regular, Pleiku, Vietnam". Package says it is made from 75% Vietnamese Robusta beans and 25% El Salvador Arabica beans.
It will be weak if it's made like regular coffee. Instructions say "use two tablespoons of coffee for each six ounces of cold water". I don't understand the "cold" part.
Once a couple of years ago, Tom & I ordered some Vietnamese coffee in a Vietnamese restaurant. We couldn't sleep for around three days after. This Vietnamese stuff is strong. So we make this stuff today on the weak side.
It tastes good, IMO, better than most American coffees or coffees that most Americans like. But Tom & I like Italian roast coffee the best of all. In year 2000, in a restaurant in London we told them to keep the cream and sugar out (the default there is to have it in, if you say nothing). And then we thought it was the best tasting coffee we both ever had. So then we asked what it was, and they told us it was "Italian roast" and we have been using it here ever since.
BTW, I cannot stand French Roast that many Americans seem to like.
-Don- SSF, CA