Coffee & Tea

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Karak Chai

كارك تشاي

Strong spiced tea with milk, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, and saffron, brought by Indian diaspora, now UAE's beloved street-side daily drink, strong tea flavor with creamy texture and distinct cardamom aroma.

🇮🇳Jammu and Kashmir, India

Kashmiri Chai

کشمیری چائے

Green tea whisked long with bicarbonate of soda until it turns red, then cut with milk to a rose pink and topped with pistachio.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Kazakh Tea

Шай

A Kazakh black tea, served in piyala bowls with milk or butter, a national and hospitality icon.

🇰🇪Kenya

Kenyan Chai

Chai

A Kenyan black tea with milk, sugar, and cardamom, a national and hospitality icon

🇲🇦Morocco

Khoudenjal Tea

خودنجال

A Moroccan infusion of galangal and warming spices, brewed as a fragrant after-meal drink.

🇹🇿Arusha, Tanzania

Kilimanjaro Coffee

Kahawa ya Kilimanjaro

Named Tanzanian coffee from the Kilimanjaro and northern highland growing areas, sold as an origin product rather than an anonymous commodity.

🇺🇸Hawaii, United States

Kona coffee

A rare, mild coffee grown on the slopes of Hawaii's Mauna Loa, prized for its smooth, low-acid profile.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Kopi

Kopi C

Robusta beans roasted with sugar and margarine, brewed through a cloth sock and poured over condensed milk; ordered by a coded shorthand at every coffee shop

🇮🇩Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Kopi joss

Kopi joss, coffee with a lump of glowing charcoal dropped into the glass, is a named Yogyakarta street-side institution and a genuinely singular preparation.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Kuti Shai

ቁቲ ሻይ

A unique Ethiopian tea brewed from the leaves of the coffee plant (rather than the beans). Lightly caffeinated, mellow, and a Harari-region specialty.

🇬🇱Greenland

Labrador Tea (Qajaasat)

Labrador tea (qajaasat), a fragrant Greenlandic infusion brewed from wild ledum leaves.

🇱🇦Laos

Lao Coffee

ກາເຟລາວ

Bolaven Plateau coffee brewed strong through a cloth filter and poured over sweetened condensed milk, served hot or over ice.

🇱🇾Libya

Libyan Tea

Shahi

Tea boiled down repeatedly over a small stove until it is almost syrup, poured from a height into small glasses and topped with a spoon of roasted peanuts or almonds.

🇨🇭Lucerne, Switzerland

Lucerne Coffee

Kafi Luz

A Lucerne drink of strong coffee mixed with a generous measure of fruit brandy (Träsch or Kirsch), sweetened with sugar.

🇦🇷Argentina

Lágrima

An Argentine coffee of mostly steamed milk with a 'tear' (lágrima) of espresso, served in a large cup. The mildest café option, popular at breakfast and merienda.

🇦🇺Melbourne, Australia

Magic

Melbourne specialty: double ristretto with steamed milk in 120-150mL cup, off-menu item in many cafes, proper ristretto extraction with good milk texture, a rare Melbourne icon.

Ingredient

Mahorais Coffee

Café Maoré

Arabica/Robusta coffee grown and roasted in Mayotte, often with a light, fruity, low-bitterness profile. Produced by the Café Cacao Maoré association and sold locally.

🇲🇼Malawi

Malawi Coffee

Arabica and Robusta coffee grown by smallholder cooperatives in the highlands of Malawi; a small but growing specialty crop with bright, fruity notes.

🇲🇼Malawi

Malawi Tea

Black tea from the Shire Highlands of Malawi, the first country in Africa to plant tea commercially; full-bodied and brisk, often drunk with milk and sugar.

🇲🇱Mali

Malian Tea

Ataya

Sweet green tea prepared in three rounds across Mali and the Sahel; brewed in a small teapot with sugar and mint; poured back and forth to create foam; the three rounds have names and meanings — the first is bitter like death, the second mild like life, the third sweet like love; a social ritual central to Malian hospitality.

🇭🇳Western Honduras, Honduras

Marcala Coffee

Café de Marcala

High-altitude arabica from the La Paz highlands around Marcala, Honduras's first coffee denomination of origin, grown mostly on smallholdings.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Maria Theresia

Coffee with orange liqueur and whipped cream, named after Empress Maria Theresa, an elegant Viennese coffee specialty, refined and aromatic.

🇮🇳India

Masala Chai

मसाला चाय

Spiced black tea brewed with milk, ginger, cardamom, and cloves. It is India's most beloved beverage, served on every street corner.

🇯🇵Japan

Matcha

抹茶

Stone-ground powdered green tea whisked with hot water, the centerpiece of the Japanese tea ceremony.

🇦🇷Argentina

Mate

Argentina's daily ritual: a caffeinated infusion of yerba mate steeped in hot (not boiling) water in a gourd, sipped through a metal bombilla and shared in a circle.

🇦🇷Argentina

Mate Cocido

A brewed yerba mate tea, served in a cup with milk and sugar, like a tea bag. A school and breakfast drink, milder and less ritualized than the gourd mate.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mazagran

مازاغران

Cold sweetened coffee with lemon, said to have been drunk by French soldiers at Mazagran in the 1840s and claimed as the first iced coffee.

🇹🇷Gaziantep, Turkey

Menengiç Coffee

Menengiç Kahvesi

A traditional caffeine-free coffee substitute from Gaziantep made by roasting and grinding the seeds of the terebinth tree (Pistacia terebinthus), then brewing them like Turkish coffee in a cezve. The resulting drink has a nutty, slightly resinous flavor and is served with sugar. Gaziantep Menengiç Kahvesi received a protected geographical indication from the European Union.

🇭🇰Guangdong, Hong Kong

Milk Tea

丝袜奶茶

Strong black tea drawn repeatedly through a cloth sock filter and cut with evaporated milk, served hot or over ice.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Mint Tea with Pine Nuts

شاي بالصنوبر

Strong green tea boiled with mint and sugar and poured over a spoonful of pine nuts or roasted almonds sitting in the glass.

🇯🇵Japan

Mugicha

麦茶

Caffeine-free roasted barley tea, served chilled in summer as Japan's most popular cold drink.

🇳🇵Nepal

Nepali Tea

नेपाली चिया

Tea grown in Nepal's eastern hills is brewed as a fragrant black cup, sometimes served with milk, sugar, or spice.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Ngaja

སྔར་ཇ།

Sweet milk tea boiled with sugar and sometimes cardamom, the alternative offered alongside suja and the one visitors usually pick.

🇲🇦Morocco

Nous-Nous (Half-Half Coffee)

نص نص

A Moroccan café drink of half coffee and half milk, a French-influenced staple. A daily and social drink, creamy and strong, a national and urban classic, a morning and café ritual, a popular coffee variant.

🇹🇭Thailand

Oliang

โอเลี้ยง

Traditional Thai iced coffee brewed with soybeans, sesame, and corn, sweetened with sugar and condensed milk.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Oriental Beauty

東方美人

Heavily oxidised oolong made from leaves bitten by tea jassids, which triggers a defence response that gives the tea its honey and muscat character.