Arabica coffee etiquette that you don't know! The host can't drink more than three cups of coffee!

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Coffee is a popular drink all over the world, but do you know? Coffee drinking actually originated in the Arab region and spread to Europe in the 17th century. Even when it was first introduced into Europe, it got the title of "The Wine of Islam".

The origin of coffee

Today, there are many different theories about the source of coffee drinking. the more common saying is that Arabs believed that in Ethiopia or Yemen in the 15th century, a shepherd found that his sheep would jump lively after eating a plant many times. People found that coffee was refreshing, and the Ethiopians ate it as a refreshing raw food.

Due to the frequent exchanges between Ethiopia and Yemen, it was introduced into Armenia, Persia, Turkey, North Africa and other places through the Arabs, and then introduced into Europe and America by shrewd Arab businessmen in the Islamic world. Yemen and Ethiopia should be the origin of coffee beans, and Yemenis were the first to roast coffee beans as ingredients. The famous Arabica refers to Yemeni Arabica coffee, while Moch coffee dates back to the Yemeni port of Mocha Port.

Arab coffee hospitality

In Arab society, Arabica coffee is regarded as an etiquette of generosity and a very important way of hospitality.

Traditionally, coffee is prepared in front of guests. At first, the beans are selected, then placed in a shallow pan, baked slightly on the oven, and then mashed with a copper pestle in a copper mortar. Then put the coffee powder in a large copper coffee pot, add water and heat it on the stove. The brewed coffee is poured into a smaller coffee pot and then into a small cup.

According to custom, drinking a cup of coffee is a tribute to the host, and drinking two cups shows comfort, but if you drink the third cup, you are willing to defend the host with a sword, which means that you have crossed the line. If the hostess is not present, the hostess will serve coffee and drink a cup of respect, but two cups will represent contempt and contempt for the hostess. In addition, if you shake the empty cup from side to side, thank you, then the host will not pour another cup.

In some parts of Saudi Arabia, when the host pours coffee, it is only five cents full, because it is insulting. In addition, when drinking Arabica coffee, you should hold the cup with your right hand and the pot with your left hand, because this represents the traditional concept of "being superior to the right and inferior to the left". In Arab society, regardless of gender or class, everyone knows how to enjoy coffee, especially at home.

Arab chiefs and chiefs are used to serving coffee at conference venues, and they, along with older Bedouin men and women, as well as coffee traders, are considered to be the main inheritors of coffee culture. These knowledge and traditions are passed on from generation to generation in the family through observation and practice. Young family members will also accompany the elderly to the market to learn how to choose the best coffee beans.

Arab coffee is full of elegance, the etiquette of drinking coffee is mysterious, coffee with cloves, cardamom and cinnamon, its aroma is full of room, carefully and slowly taste, that is the beginning of learning culture. Arab coffee culture is as mysterious as its country and legend of 1001 nights, as elegant, beautiful and legendary as Arab belly dance.

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