Beaten Coffee
What did you guys do this Valentine’s day & what did you get? Well, we don’t really attach too much importance to this, but I got a new cellphone from my husband. It was much needed because the old one was beyond repair. So now you see, how convenient such days are?
Valentine’s Day reminds me of our courtship period. Those days when we would endless hang around coffee shops to exchange those sweet nothings. We still frequent coffee shops, but its mostly with friends now 
Anyways, in case you guys want to re-create the same ambience in your home, here’s a great recipe for some instant coffee
While I always love the classic South Indian Filter Coffee, this works well if you do not have the patience to brew coffee decoction. Or if you simply want a change. This tastes so much better than Instant Coffee. Believe me.
You Will Need:
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1 1/2 tsp of any instant coffee powder - I love Nescafe
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1 1/2 - 2 tsp Sugar
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1cup hot milk
Method:
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In a coffee mug, add instant coffee powder & sugar. To this add 1 tbsp milk & beat well for about 3 - 4 mins with a spoon until frothy.
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Pour hot milk into the mug & beat well for a minute until froth appears.
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Add a pinch of instant coffee powder on top & make swirls with your finger tips.
And, your Beaten Coffee is ready to Serve. Enjoi !!!
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Stupid and stupid you can get!
Yesterday I popped into my local post office to mail a letter home to Malaysia.
This is the conversation I had with the postman behind the counter.
Postman: How you doin?
Umah: Good Sir, how are you? Good.
He then takes my letter and puts it on the electronic scale and searches for Malaysia on his computer.
Postman: Ah, its coming out as Malaya.
Umah: Oh, that’s the old British colonial name. You have to change it to Malaysia.
Postman: OK. It’s coming out as Malaysia. Is it near Britain?
Umah: No, sir.
Postman: Is it near Africa?
Umah: No. It’s in South East Asia. You have to look at the map to find where it is.
Postman: Do they have black people like us over there.
TEA-licious
My hubby calls me a tea snob. It has been a process that has its roots in my home country Malaysia. Back then, the only tea available was BOH Tea.
Its founder, J.A. Russell in the 1900s, found the perfect place in a popular British hill resort called Cameron Highlands. The cool climate was prefect for growing tea that he brought over from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and it thrived and today, his descendants are still at it.
For decades, not only was it cheap but BOH Tea dominated the market.
Tea loyalists say it has a very strong robust taste, simple and yet energetic. Malaysians even invented their own version of a cuppa of tea, we call it teh tarik (pulled tea). It’s made with sweetened condensed milk and the tea is pulled between two large cups, that cools it and gives it a nice frothy top. The longer the tea is stretched and pulled the more bubbly the froth is! It’s a Third World version of a latte!
The other is the homemade imported Indian version. My childhood friend Hari, like clockwork at 4pm, would heed her mother’s call to make tea just as the monsoon rains thunder down from the heavens. She boiled the water, then added two cardamoms pods and a small stick of cinnamon and then threw in two tablespoons of BOH black tea. And let it boil. I had never seen that before but it was my very first chai minus the latte. Scrumptious and I never replicated it at home. Damn it ! I don’t know why otherwise I would have had the first Star Bucks in Malaysia!
My next tea adventure was in England; here I discovered English Breakfast tea and Earl’s Grey. It set the stratosphere of sophistication. Oh, how I loved it! Occasionally, I would splurge and shop at Harrod’s and Fortnum and Mason (both are very posh stores in London, the latter carries Queen Elizabeth’s royal seal of approval).
Teas from either of these stores are exceptional. Not only I loved the teas but I loved tins and still collect them today. Earl’s Grey tea has that delicate delicious scent of bergamot oil that just overwhelms one’s scent and taste! This is how God works in mysterious ways. I used to ask why BOH never introduced bergamot oils to its teas in Malaysia. Was it too expensive or is it just the exclusive domain of the Brits? Over time, BOH finally introduced a wide array of different teas for the more discerning tea drinker in Malaysia.
Tea is organic and existential. Throw in the plethora of scientific evidence on the wonders of tea. How can you not love tea even without lashings of latte?
Then I discovered that I had to give up drinking my daily dose of Earl’s Grey as the caffeine rumbled my bladder. Thankfully, from South Africa comes Rooibos, caffeine-free, available from Teavana Atlanta. It doesn’t even stain your teeth, comes in marvelous exotic flavours like chai rooibos, toffee rooibos, lemon twist and lots more. Rich in anti-oxidants, it perks my day!
Rooibos tea even travels with me. Packed along with my clothes is a little zip-locked tea caddy, which includes, a small sieve, small canister filled with Rooibos. I took it along with me in our recent visit to Las Vegas. Every morning, as we headed out for breakfast, try finding a free cup of hot water it is difficult. One has to pay for it! One dollar! (water is a scarce resource in that dry arid city). I threw in my tea, brewed it for five minutes, filled my cup with a small amount of milk, no sugar and a man next to me said, “You do that all the time! Yes, I do, it’s a ritual.”
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