Philippine Coffee: Whole Bean

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Philippine Coffee: Liberica Whole Bean

This is premium coffee sold in the United States — on Amazon… not what most folks in the Philippines drink on a regular basis.

Mikey Bustos enumerated these different techniques that Filipinos use to cool down a cup of steaming hot coffee:
1. Blow by Blow
2. Stirring
3. Scooping (salok like with sabaw)
4. “Tasa-pasa” (pouring coffee from one cup or container into another)
5. Put coffee in a mangkok (bowl) — it has a wide mouth so heat can escape faster

Westerners dunk donuts in coffee. Filipinos “sawsaw” biscuits, cookies, and breads in coffee. What kind of breads? Pandesal, pan de coco, monay, pan de munggo, pan de limon, pan de leche, pan de regla (bellas), pan de amerikana…

Filipinos will even pour coffee over rice, just like the Philippine national hero Jose Rizal supposedly did.

Containers? Not just mugs, but also… paper cups, peanut-butter garapon (jar), bowls, hard plastic cups, styrofoam cups, “crystal” glasses (containers in which commercial instant coffee were sold) decades ago… These days, sachets of instant-serve coffee are very popular.

Filipinos are “coffee-vores.” 🙂