Coffee & Tea

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Coffee

Highland-grown Arabica coffee — PNG's second largest agricultural export, cultivated in the Highlands Region; a widely consumed beverage with a mild, balanced flavour.

🇮🇷Iran

Persian Tea

چای

Black tea brewed strong in a two-part samovar pot and poured into small glasses, drunk with a sugar lump held between the teeth.

🇦🇺Australia

Piccolo

Piccolo Latte

Scaled-down latte with one shot of espresso and small amount of milk, stronger coffee flavour, good coffee-to-milk ratio with proper milk texture, an Australian cafe specialty.

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

PNG Black Tea

Black tea grown in the PNG Highlands, introduced by the British — drunk steaming hot, black, and very sweet, especially popular in the southern coastal areas.

🇭🇰Yunnan, Hong Kong

Pu-erh Tea

普洱茶

Large-leaf tea from Yunnan pressed into cakes and aged, either slowly as raw sheng or by accelerated fermentation as ripe shu.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Qahwa Arbi

قهوة عربي

Coffee ground very fine with a little rose water or geranium, boiled in a pot and served in small cups with the grounds settling.

🇾🇪Yemen

Qishr

The dried husks of the coffee cherry boiled with ginger and cardamom into a light, spiced amber drink that contains almost no caffeine.

🇱🇻Latvia

Roasted Grain Coffee

Rudzu kafija

Coffee substitute from roasted rye, chicory and acorns, a traditional caffeine-free beverage.

🇿🇦South Africa

Rooibos Tea

Rooibostee

South Africa's national herbal tea, grown only in the Cederberg region and protected as an exclusively South African origin product; naturally caffeine-free with antioxidants

Packaged food

Saint Helena Coffee

World-famous, rare single-origin Arabica coffee from Saint Helena; the Green Tipped Bourbon variety was introduced from Yemen in 1733. Grown on the island's volcanic slopes, it has a delicate floral aroma, citrus and berry notes, bright acidity, and a smooth, silky body.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Saint Lucian Cocoa Tea

Dité Kako

Traditional breakfast spiced hot drink; made from local cocoa, harvested, dried, ground, and packaged in Saint Lucia; grated cocoa brought to a boil and enhanced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove; sugar and milk added; a bit of flour may be added to thicken it; the cocoa tea of Saint Lucia; a warming, spiced breakfast drink.

🇼🇸Samoa

Samoan Cocoa

Koko Samoa

Traditional Samoan cocoa drink; made from locally grown cacao beans; beans are roasted, ground, and mixed with hot water; rich, dark, and slightly grainy; served with sugar or coconut cream; the hot beverage of choice in Samoa; drunk with panipopo; a TasteAtlas-listed drink; the cocoa that fuels Samoan mornings.

🇯🇵Japan

Sencha

煎茶

Japan's most common green tea, steamed and rolled leaves brewed in a kyūsu teapot.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Seven-Layer Tea

সাত রং চা

Tea, condensed milk, spices and syrups of different densities poured so carefully that they stand in separate coloured bands in the glass.

🇩🇯Djibouti

Shahi Haleeb

Black tea boiled with milk, cardamom and a great deal of sugar and served in small glasses all day.

🇪🇬Egypt

Shai (Egyptian Tea)

شاي

Egypt's daily tea, served strong and sweet in glasses, a national and social icon

🇸🇩Sudan

Shai bil Laban

Black tea boiled with powdered or evaporated milk and heavily sweetened, often with cinnamon or cardamom.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Sheer Chai

شیرچای

Green tea whisked with bicarbonate of soda until it turns red, then cut with milk to a pink colour and salted.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Shyrchay

Шыршай

Shyrchay is Kazakh salty milk tea made with butter, flour, and fried tail fat, served hot as a rich winter drink.

🇫🇰Falkland Islands

Smoko Tea Spread

A shared Falklands spread of tea or coffee with scones, cakes, and biscuits.

🇸🇴Somalia

Somali Coffee

Qahwa

Somali coffee, brewed in the Arabic style; a legacy of the centuries-old trade routes; often spiced with cardamom; served after meals and to guests; the coffee that ends Somali meals; a gesture of hospitality; found at homes, cafes, and after dinner; the drink that connects Somalia to the coffee trade.

🇸🇴Somalia

Somali Spiced Tea

Shaah

Somali spiced tea, brewed from black tea leaves and flavored with cardamom, cinnamon, and sometimes ginger; milk is added after brewing instead of during; known as shaah cadeeys when spiced; the tea that runs through the Somali day; served at breakfast, after meals, and for guests; a gesture of hospitality; the drink that defines Somali social life.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Sweet Tea

Shai

Sweet black tea brewed strong with plenty of sugar; sometimes flavored with cardamom or ginger; the morning drink of South Sudan; sold at roadside stalls and cafes; government workers grab it at 6 AM from plastic tables that appear overnight.

🇺🇸Southern United States, United States

Southern sweet tea

The South's beverage: strong black tea sweetened hot and served over ice.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Spiced Buna

ቅመም ቡና

Ethiopian coffee brewed with warm spices like cardamom, cloves and cinnamon. A festive twist on the traditional buna — fragrant, comforting and irresistible.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Suja

ཇ་སྲུབ་མ།

Brick tea boiled long, then churned with yak butter and salt into a hot, cloudy, savoury drink poured from a wooden churn.

🇮🇳Kerala, India

Sulaimani Chai

سلیمانی چائے

Black tea without milk, boiled with cardamom and served with lemon and sugar, the standard after a heavy meat meal.

🇴🇲Oman

Sulaimani Tea

سليماني

Sulaimani Tea is clear, milk-free spiced tea served after meals in Oman with an aromatic finish.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Sun Moon Lake Black Tea

日月潭紅茶

Black tea grown around Sun Moon Lake from Assam and the local Ruby #18 cultivar, giving a menthol and cinnamon note found nowhere else.

🇸🇾Syria

Syrian Mate

متة

Yerba mate imported from South America, drunk hot through a metal straw from a small gourd, a Druze and coastal-mountain habit.

🇿🇼Zimbabwe

Tanganda Tea

Tanganda

Black tea grown in the Eastern Highlands around Chipinge since 1924, brewed strong with condensed milk and a great deal of sugar.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Teh Halia

Black tea brewed with crushed ginger, sweetened with condensed milk and pulled between two jugs until it foams

🇲🇾Malaysia

Teh Tarik

Pulled tea with condensed milk, frothy top with good pull aeration and balanced sweetness.

🇦🇷Mato Grosso do Sul, Argentina

Tereré

A cold infusion of yerba mate in ice water, sipped through a bombilla from a horn or glass guampa, popular in Mato Grosso do Sul.

🇹🇭Thailand

Thai Iced Tea

ชาเย็น

Black tea brewed with spices, sweetened with condensed milk, and served over ice with evaporated milk on top.

🇨🇳China

Tieguanyin Oolong

铁观音

A partly oxidised oolong from Anxi rolled into tight pellets that unfurl over many infusions, floral when light-roasted and toasty when dark.