Coffee & Tea

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Chai Sabz

چای سبز

Green tea brewed with cardamom and served in small handleless bowls, sweetened with a sugared almond held in the cheek.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Chai ya Maziwa

Tea leaves boiled directly in milk with ginger, cardamom and sugar until thick.

🇺🇸New Orleans, United States

Chicory Coffee

New Orleans-style coffee blended with roasted chicory root, served black or with chicory and beignets at Café du Monde.

🇧🇷Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Chimarrão

An infusion of yerba mate leaves in hot water, sipped through a metal bombilla from a cuia gourd, central to gaucho culture.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Chocolate con Leche

A Dominican hot chocolate made with milk, cinnamon, and sugar, served with bread or casabe. A breakfast and evening drink, creamy and warming.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Chocolate de Agua

A Dominican hot chocolate made with water (not milk), cinnamon, and sugar, served with bread or casabe. A breakfast and evening drink, especially in the countryside.

🇨🇴Bogotá, Colombia

Chocolate Santafereño

Bogotá hot chocolate whisked frothy with a slab of queso fundido melting inside, dunked with almojábana bread. As "chocolate completo" the tray adds buttered bread and a boiled egg — the full Santafereño breakfast of the cold Altiplano.

🇮🇳India

Chukku Kaapi

ചുക്ക് കാപ്പി

A traditional South Indian herbal coffee with dry ginger and pepper. It is consumed for colds and digestion.

🇰🇷South Korea

Citron Tea

유자차

A warm citrus tea made from yuja (Korean citron/yuzu) preserved in sugar or honey, dissolved in hot water, popular in winter.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Cocido

Cocido Quemado

Hot tea made with yerba mate and sugar cooked on pan with burning coal, dark brown color similar to coffee, a traditional drink.

🇩🇲Dominica

Cocoa Tea

Hand-rolled cocoa balls grated into boiling water with bay leaf, cinnamon and milk and sweetened heavily.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Coffee and Tea Mix

Yuen Yeung

Hong Kong's unique drink mixing coffee and milk tea; a combination of strong black coffee and silk stocking milk tea; the ratio varies by cha chaan teng; creamy, rich, and caffeinated; a uniquely Hong Kong invention; served hot or iced; the drink that combines two colonial-era beverages into one; a cha chaan teng staple.

🇺🇸United States

Coffee Cabinet

A Rhode Island milkshake: coffee ice cream blended with milk into a thick, frosty drink.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Coffee Ceremony

የቡና ሥነ ሥርዓት

Ethiopia's most cherished social ritual. Green coffee beans are roasted, ground, and brewed in a jebena over hot coals — then served across three rounds: Abol (first), Tona (second), and Bereka (the 'blessed' third). A full ceremony can last hours.

🇺🇸United States

Coffee Milk

Rhode Island's official state drink: milk mixed with a sweet coffee syrup.

🇷🇺Moscow, Russia

Coffee Raf

Раф

Espresso blended in a pitcher with cream and vanilla sugar into a silky foam, invented in 1996 at Moscow's Coffee Bean cafe for a regular named Rafael.

🇭🇳Western Honduras, Honduras

Copán Coffee

Café de Copán

Washed arabica from the western hills around Copán and Santa Bárbara, the region that supplies most of Honduras's specialty exports.

🇰🇷South Korea

Corn Tea

옥수수차

A tea made from roasted corn kernels, with a nutty, slightly sweet flavor and a light golden color, served hot or cold.

🇦🇷Argentina

Cortado

An Argentine coffee of espresso 'cut' with a small amount of steamed milk, served in a small cup. A mid-morning and afternoon café staple, milder than a café con leche.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Costa Rican Coffee

Café

Costa Rican coffee, world-renowned for quality, grown in highlands, a daily social ritual and national pride, rich and aromatic.

🇲🇶Martinique

Creole Hot Chocolate

Chocolat Créole

Creole hot chocolate; a Martinican drink made with local cocoa, milk, and spices; the chocolat créole that is a Martinican warm drink.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Cypriot Coffee

Κυπριακός καφές

Cypriot coffee is finely ground coffee brewed unfiltered in a small briki and served thick and strong in a small cup.

🇨🇳Fujian, China

Da Hong Pao Rock Tea

大红袍

Da Hong Pao, the Wuyi rock oolong whose six surviving mother bushes are a protected cliff-face monument and whose leaf has sold for more per gram than gold, is the one Chinese tea beyond the five carried that earns its own sticker.

🇮🇳West Bengal, India

Darjeeling

দার্জিলিং চা

High-grown tea leaves from Darjeeling are lightly oxidised into a fragrant, brisk cup.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Dong Ding Oolong

凍頂烏龍

Roasted oolong from Lugu in Nantou, medium-oxidised and charcoal-baked, giving a darker, toasty, honeyed cup than the high-mountain teas.

🇵🇰Pakistan

Doodh Patti

دودھ پتی

Tea leaves boiled directly in milk with sugar and no water at all, until thick, tan and syrupy.

🇨🇦Canada

Double-Double

Coffee with two creams and two sugars, Tim Hortons ordering terminology to Canadian culture.

🇨🇳China

Dragon Well Tea

龙井茶

A pan-fired green tea from the hills round West Lake, its leaves pressed flat by hand in the wok, tasting of chestnut and fresh grass.

🇰🇼Kuwait

Dried Lime Tea

شاي لومي

Whole dried limes cracked open and steeped in hot water, sometimes with a little tea or saffron, drunk hot and unsweetened after a heavy rice dish.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Einspänner

Espresso topped with generous whipped cream, served in a tall glass, named after carriage drivers, strong coffee with fresh cream, traditional.

🇪🇷Asmara, Eritrea

Eritrean Espresso

Espresso

Italian-style espresso served in Asmara's historic cafes; made with original Italian machinery; a legacy of the colonial period; drunk standing at bars before sunrise; cappuccinos and lattes equally common; the cafe culture of Asmara runs deep.

🇮🇹Italy

Espresso

Italian concentrated coffee brewed by forcing hot water through finely-ground beans under pressure. The base of cappuccino, latte, and many other drinks.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Extended Coffee

Verlängerter

Espresso extended with hot water, similar to Americano but less water, milder and smoother than straight espresso, a daily coffeehouse staple.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Fiaker

Espresso with rum and whipped cream topping, named after Viennese horse-drawn carriages, good rum quality with balanced sweetness, traditional.

🇫🇯Fiji

Fijian Masala Tea

Masala tea

Black tea boiled with milk, cardamom, ginger and cinnamon and sweetened heavily, drunk in Indo-Fijian homes and canteens all day.

🇵🇭Philippines

Filipino Hot Chocolate

Tsokolate

A thick, rich hot chocolate made from tablea (cacao tablets), traditionally whisked with a batirol, a colonial-era drink.