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    Tea or Coffee?

    Seeing as though it was international coffee day yesterday, I tried a few different free Costas.

    I'm not impressed and shall be sticking to my Yorkshire tea.

    What's your favourite tea or coffee and why?


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    I need two large mugs of coffee in the morning. Have settled on Nescafe Gold atm, two heaped teaspoons and a touch of milk. (Gave up sugar 21 months ago, felt like I wanted to be an axe murderer for at least six months before it finally tasted acceptable.) I occasionally have something mid-morning, either a good quality jasmine tea brewed in a teapot or a decent plunger coffee, currently liking a dark roast ground grown and made in Nan province.

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    Real coffee with a pinch of cream [no sugar].
    Decent Chinese tea [Taiwan/Southern China].

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    Nescafe Red Cup is the only coffee I drink, Earl or some herbal tea weekend afternoons if not in the doghouse otherwise none of the above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    What's your favourite tea or coffee and why?
    AM - Nescafe Gold

    Afternoon - Suzuki Espresso

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    Tea drinker here, just that crappy Lipton stuff usually.

    Never been much into the coffee as it used to trigger migraines when I was younger. All good now but just don't have the taste.

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    PG tips, drinking one in the office right now as I wake up.

    This cup of tea has a huge carbon footprint unfortunately. A mate bought the box of PG tips in the UK and brought it out to a boat in the North Sea for me a few months ago, and I took it back home to Thailand.

    When this office work came up I brought it back from Thailand to Norway to keep in the office. They only have Liptons here and I can't abide it!

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    Sainsburys dark roast is a real heartstarter. Brought over 5 bags which is good as the price of coffee in Jomtien is so expensive.
    This surprises me as if the Vietnamese can make their own coffee why can't the Thais ?

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    You think Jomtien is representative of Thailand?

    There's plenty of decent, fairly priced coffee grown in Thailand.

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    Usually drink a coffee with brekkie in the morning. Mostly the Suzuki stuff in the green packet.

    Otherwise it's Thai or Chinese loose-leaf green tea. Have gotten a taste for this over the years, great for cholesterol, blood pressure etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    You think Jomtien is representative of Thailand?

    There's plenty of decent, fairly priced coffee grown in Thailand.
    I didn't know that. I haven't seen any in the shops. Recommend a brand ?

    Orrens

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    You think Jomtien is representative of Thailand?

    There's plenty of decent, fairly priced coffee grown in Thailand.

    Indeed. I am limited to one cup a day (docs orders) and I have a cup of Duang Dee Hill tribe coffee.

    Quite a nice way to start the day:

    Duang Dee Hill Tribe Coffee from Chiang Mai Thailand



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    Tea, coffee or me?

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    Also taken black, no sugar (again sugar and milk out on docs orders). Used to take it while and sweet - took a couple of weeks to get used to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orrens View Post
    I didn't know that. I haven't seen any in the shops. Recommend a brand ?
    I think Boncafe uses Thai beans don't they?. Their Cafe Classica is a decent brew, used in a lot of restaurants around town.

    I have a drip-filter coffee machine at home and use Starbucks Sumatra, very nice!.

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    I used to work with an Indonesian guy who rented land near Bandung that he had made into a coffee plantation. The coffee beans were eaten and passed through some kind of a civet cat (?) before he collected them. He raved about this coffee and made a lot of money selling it. He brought some on the boat and I tried it but couldn't really see what all the fuss was about to be honest.

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    For coffee, first choice is a good coffee from a coffee shop. Second choice is coffee from a 7/11 - AllCafe. Third choice is Nescafe instant coffee.
    For tea, in Thailand, I drink Lipton Yellow Label tea.

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    Two double espresso in the morning gets me going. This month the beans are dark roast from Columbia and smooth enough not to require sugar. I use a moka pot in Thailand and stick to Lavazza crema e gusto.

    Cold climates I drink Tetley in the morning and Earl Grey in the afternoon. Hot climates I drink green tea, my favourite is an Oolong and ginseng from Taiwan.

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    Homemade latte first thing in the morning, no sugar.

    Tea during the day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I used to work with an Indonesian guy who rented land near Bandung that he had made into a coffee plantation. The coffee beans were eaten and passed through some kind of a civet cat (?) before he collected them. He raved about this coffee and made a lot of money selling it. He brought some on the boat and I tried it but couldn't really see what all the fuss was about to be honest.
    Indonesia and Philippines sell a lot of this stuff. Usually involves these Civet cats being kept in cramped, dirty cages / shit conditions. -If the thought of having your cuppa shat through a ferret beforehand doesn't phase you enough..

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    the thought of having your cuppa shat through a ferret
    Yup, adds new meaning to the phrase "now that's good shit"...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orrens View Post
    Sainsburys dark roast is a real heartstarter. Brought over 5 bags which is good as the price of coffee in Jomtien is so expensive.
    This surprises me as if the Vietnamese can make their own coffee why can't the Thais ?

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    The coffee shop in Chaiyapreuk toward the bottom end had a sign up yesterday for some type of roast coffee at around 350bt/kilo; thought that's cheap, or for the same price you could get two fancy cups at Starbucks.

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    Nescafe gold in the morning, two cups needed. Another coffee after lunch, school has a coffee shop that will deliver to my desk. Then I mostly stick to tea.

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    Stuff all of your grinding and roasting malarky.

    Yorkshire tea, 2 sugars and a dash of milk.

    Bonus points for a few chocolate hobnobs on the side.

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