Coffee training Culture: coffee feelings of the Sudanese

Sudan is located in northeast Africa, covering an area of about 2.5 million square kilometers. It is the largest country in Africa with a population of more than 25 million. Arabic is the official language of Sudan and English is widely spoken. Most people believe in Islam. Because of work needs, we are lucky to step into this ancient and mysterious land. In our work and life, we gradually found that Sudanese especially like to drink coffee, from dignitaries to civilians, all drink coffee. Wherever you go, wherever there are people living or on the side of the road, there is always a local woman who has set up a stall to prepare coffee for people. The three or five stalls connected together formed a beautiful scenery. They were dressed in colorful clothes and looked very bright from a distance. After approaching, its demeanor dignified, generous, warm, and its conversation, there seems to be a shy, shy look, the more I feel lovely. Coffee stands, which are commonplace, are in fact part of the working life of Sudanese people.

We Chinese like to drink tea, coffee is not very interested, only occasionally taste, or sugar coffee, or milk coffee. In Sudan, however, this is not the case. Approaching a coffee stall, there are several small wooden benches in front of the stall. These small wooden stools have two kinds, one is rope woven stool surface, stool legs are wood, although it looks very simple, very primitive, but very comfortable to sit on. The other is wooden stool surface, rough, a little quaint taste, is used to put the cup, more stable. Sudanese women put a pot of water on a simple charcoal stove in advance. When coffee needs to be brewed, pour the water in the pot into a part of an aluminum pot with a handle. Put the aluminum pot on the stove and continue to heat it. When the water temperature is about 80 degrees Celsius, add a small amount of ginger powder first. Stir slowly and add appropriate amount of coffee. Continue to stir. When the coffee bubbles, the heat will arrive. At this time, the boiled coffee will be poured into the cup with sugar added in advance through the filter, and then the plate will be very generous to come to you, the cup will be handed to your hand, and at the same time give you a smile, very sweet, very beautiful.

Do not worry about drinking coffee in Sudan, like tea, first sip, make two bends in your mouth, stay for dozens of seconds, a sweet, spicy feeling permeates your taste, suddenly feel refreshed. When you drink the second sip, you will feel a heat flow in your stomach, which makes you feel like a good medicine. When drinking again, its fragrance, spicy taste is more concentrated, really refreshing, wonderful. No wonder Sultans often say that drinking coffee will relieve fatigue and improve their spirits.

Sudanese coffee has two characteristics, one is ginger powder, which makes it unique, and the other is that coffee is processed by local people themselves. First coffee beans stir-fry, stir-fry to coke, crisp, flavor dispersion when the stove, and then crush it into powder, that is, served. Every time I see Sudanese women making coffee powder in a primitive way, it often reminds me of the situation when people in my hometown pounded rice and cooked when I was a child. A sense of intimacy arises spontaneously, and a strong local flavor picture flashes in my mind. This wasn't Sudan, it was definitely home in the countryside.

Sultans drink coffee much more slowly than we do, and even after we have finished our meal, Sultans have not finished their cup of coffee, and they look and behave like old-fashioned English gentlemen. But we are different, some companions because of impatient, two drink dry. Drinking coffee in Sudan requires patience. Without patience, you can't taste Sudanese coffee, you can't be familiar with Sudanese customs, and you can't understand Sudanese inner world, let alone feel Sudanese feelings.

When did Sudanese start drinking coffee, I'm afraid it's hard to verify, just like Chinese tea, it should have a long history. Coffee nourishes Sudanese culture, coffee contains Sudanese joy, anger, sadness, joy, worry and thought. Coffee brings comfort, sweetness, leisure and serenity to Sudanese people. Coffee represents the strong flavor of Sudanese life. Coffee also endows this nation with its unique way of life, way of work and unique emotional world.

Sometimes, due to the fatigue of work, we also envy the Sudanese coffee culture. If you can often do this in life, isn't it also very happy and comfortable?