Mocha coffee & coffee mocha-Mocha,Mocca,Moka,Mokha

Walk into a coffee shop and you may find a high-frequency word on their menu-mocha. Carefully you will find that the same menu says "Yemeni mocha", "Ethiopian mocha", "coffee mocha" and "ice mocha" respectively. Is this confusing? Also known as mocha, what is the difference and relationship between these four kinds of coffee? Looking around with puzzled eyes, I inadvertently found that there were several silver star anise pots, large and small, on the coffee stand in the store-- the name was also marked as "mocha pot". It was more confusing. what on earth is "mocha"? So he asked the barista, and the barista said:

In fact, all the mochaben non-coffee in front of it comes from the port of Al-Mokha, a Yemeni port on the shore of the Red Sea. As the first country in the world to grow coffee on a large scale, Yemen had a monopoly on coffee exports around the 17th century, and the port of Mocha was also a famous port on the coast of the Red Sea, a maritime gateway to Asia and Europe. All coffee exported to Europe is shipped from Hong Kong, so at that time Europeans called this mysterious black bean from the Arab world mocha, which once became synonymous with coffee.

(the once-popular port of Mocha in history)

The coffee called "mocha" from Yemen has also conquered the taste of Europeans with its strong chocolate aroma and chocolate flavor. "mocha" also represents a kind of pure high-quality coffee. Even after the port of Mocha gradually declined and was abandoned, the name of mocha coffee continued.

The civil strife in Yemen in the 1980s and 1990s led to a shortage of mocha coffee, so some coffee produced in Ethiopia with a similar flavor to the Yemeni mocha was named moka or mocca instead of the Yemeni mocha, hence the "Ethiopian mocha", which also has a strong chocolate aroma and flavor. In fact, in order to trace the origin, the seeds of the Yemeni mocha were originally transmitted from Ethiopia, so although the two kinds of coffee grow in different environments, they both have the same flavor.

The coffee mocha (caffe mocha), which has both cream and chocolate, is also known as "mocha". It's just that this is a fancy coffee based on espresso, which is mixed with chocolate sauce in espresso to make the coffee have a strong chocolate flavor-similar to the flavor of mocha, so it's simply called mocha, or caffe mocha, and of course caffe mocha also has its ice version, ice mocha.

Coffee mocha

Ice mocha (right)

What about the mocha pot? It is a coffee-making tool invented by the Italians. Why is it called "mocha pot"? The reason is simple-since coffee is collectively referred to as "mocha", the pot that makes coffee is certainly called "mocha pot".

If you know more about the history of coffee, you will also find that there was a popular "Mocha Java Blend Coffee" in the 20th century, which was a blend of Java coffee from the Indonesian island of Java and mocha coffee from Yemen-high mellow, round taste, rich chocolate flavor and rich flavor made it a classic blend coffee.

Of course, there is also a kind of "mocha bread" that can be found in some coffee shops or bakeries-in general, it is also a kind of bread with coffee or coffee flavor.

This is the origin and full definition of mocha, so that we can know that mocha, as a polysemous word, can represent two different sources of coffee: Ethiopian mocha and Yemeni mocha. It can be fancy mocha and ice mocha with cream chocolate, or it can be a mocha pot for making coffee, and even the bread called mocha is bread with coffee flavor.