Coffee & Tea

🇮🇳Karnataka, India

Filter Coffee

फिल्टर कॉफी

A strong South Indian coffee brewed in a metal filter and mixed with hot milk. It is served in a dabarah and tumbler.

🇰🇷South Korea

Five-Flavor Berry Tea

오미자차

A tea made from schisandra berries (omija), known for five distinct flavors (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent), with a striking red color.

🇦🇺Australia

Flat White

Australia's greatest culinary export: espresso with steamed milk and thin layer of microfoam, higher coffee ratio than latte, originated in 1980s, a legendary coffee icon.

🇬🇷Thessaloniki, Greece

Frappé

Φραπέ

Greek iced coffee, whipped instant coffee with milk and sugar, served over ice. A national café icon, invented in Thessaloniki, a daily and social drink, refreshing and foamy, a summer staple.

🇬🇷Greece

Freddo Cappuccino

Φρέντο Καπουτσίνο

Greek iced cappuccino, espresso over ice with frothy cold milk on top. A modern café icon, creamy and cold, a daily and social drink, a summer staple, a contemporary Greek coffee.

🇬🇷Greece

Freddo Espresso

Φρέντο Εσπρέσο

Greek iced espresso, double espresso shaken with ice, served in a glass. A modern café icon, strong and cold, a daily and social drink, a summer staple, a contemporary Greek coffee.

🇵🇹Portugal

Galão

A tall glass of espresso and steamed milk, Portugal's answer to a latte.

🇯🇵Japan

Genmaicha

玄米茶

Green tea blended with roasted brown rice, producing a nutty, low-caffeine brew.

🇬🇪Guria, Georgia

Georgian Black Tea

Ქართული ჩაი

Black tea grown on the humid western slopes, once produced at enormous scale for the Soviet market and now revived by small growers.

🇰🇷South Korea

Ginger Tea

생강차

A warming ginger tea made from honey-preserved ginger, dissolved in hot water, popular in winter for colds and circulation.

🇵🇭Philippines

Ginger Tea

Salabat

A strong ginger tea, sweetened with honey or sugar, traditionally consumed for colds, sore throats, or during cold weather.

🇬🇷Greece

Greek Coffee

Ελληνικός καφές

Greek coffee, brewed in a briki (small pot), served in a cup with grounds at the bottom. A daily and social ritual, strong and aromatic, a national drink, served with a glass of water and a sweet.

🇰🇷South Korea

Green Plum Tea

매실차

A sweet, tangy tea made from green plum syrup (maesil-cheong), preserved with sugar, served hot or cold.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Green Tea

Чойи сабз

Green tea is poured in small bowls and repeatedly returned to the pot so the brew cools and mixes before it is served.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Cocoa Tea

Cocoa Tea

Rustic, dark hot chocolate brewed from grated raw cocoa sticks, hot water, milk, cinnamon, and fresh nutmeg; tastes nothing like supermarket hot chocolate — richer, slightly oily, with a faint bitterness that wakes you up; sold at morning market stalls in St. George's; solid cocoa sticks available from spice vendors; the morning ritual of the Spice Isle.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe Coffee

Café

Coffee from the Guadeloupe Islands; a gourmet treasure; grown in the island's volcanic soil; the coffee that is a Guadeloupean specialty.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Guayoyo

Weak black coffee brewed by pouring hot water slowly through grounds in a cloth sock, drunk all day in small cups.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Gurué Tea

Chá de Gurué

Black tea grown on the plantations around Gurué in the Zambezia highlands, drunk sweet and strong with condensed milk.

🇯🇵Japan

Gyokuro

玉露

Premium shaded green tea with deep umami and sweetness, the highest grade of Japanese tea.

🇭🇹Haiti

Haitian Coffee

Kafe ayisyen

Arabica grown in shade under mango and citrus in the mountains of the south and north, roasted very dark and brewed strong through a cloth sock.

🇬🇹Guatemala

Hot Chocolate (Guatemalan)

Chocolate

A thick Guatemalan and Maya cacao drink made by stone-grinding roasted cacao with cinnamon and sugar, then whisking it hot.

🇯🇵Japan

Hōjicha

ほうじ茶

Roasted green tea with a nutty, caramel aroma and low caffeine, often served after dinner.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Icyayi

Black tea grown in Rwanda's highlands, served sweet and sometimes with milk; a daily drink consumed at breakfast and throughout the day; Rwanda is a significant tea producer, with plantations in the cooler highland regions.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Ikawa

Coffee from Rwanda's Bourbon arabica variety, grown at 1,700-2,000m in the volcanic highlands; known for notes of caramel, citrus, and red berries; a specialty coffee gaining international recognition, served sweet and strong.

🇲🇾Ipoh, Malaysia

Ipoh White Coffee

Kopi Putih

Ipoh-style coffee roasted without sugar or margarine, lighter color and taste, light brown color with smooth non-bitter taste and aromatic.

🇮🇳Hyderabad, India

Irani Chai

इरानी चाय

A milky tea from Hyderabad's Irani cafes, made with reduced milk. It is served with osmania biscuits.

🇮🇶Iraq

Iraqi Tea

چاي عراقي

Black tea brewed twice — once boiled, then steeped over a second pot of boiling water — poured into small waisted glasses over heaped sugar.

🇮🇪Ireland

Irish Breakfast Tea

Strong, malty black tea blend, the cornerstone of the Irish morning brew.

🇮🇪Munster, Ireland

Irish Coffee

Caife Gaelach

Irish Coffee originated at Foynes in 1943: hot coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar, and separately floating cold cream.

🇸🇩Sudan

Jabana

Coffee roasted over coals in front of you, pounded with ginger or cardamom and boiled in a long-necked clay pot, then strained through grass into small cups.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Jamaican Chocolate Tea

Chocolate tea

A traditional Jamaican hot drink of hand-rolled cocoa balls grated and simmered with milk, water, cinnamon and nutmeg, of Taíno origin, a breakfast staple.

🇨🇳China

Jasmine Tea

茉莉花茶

Green tea layered repeatedly with fresh jasmine blossoms overnight so it absorbs the scent, then the spent flowers are removed.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Jebena Coffee

Jebena

Coffee prepared in a clay jebena and poured in small cups for South Sudanese gatherings.

🇰🇷South Korea

Jujube Tea

대추차

A sweet, warming tea made from dried jujubes boiled and strained, with a deep red-brown color, often garnished with pine nuts.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Kahawa

Coffee boiled with ginger in a brass pot and poured into tiny cups by vendors who walk the streets at night.

🇮🇳Jammu and Kashmir, India

Kahwa

قہوہ

Green tea infused with cardamom, cinnamon and saffron and served with crushed almond, drunk through the northern winter.