Mocha Coffee

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Walk into a coffee shop and you may find a word on their menu that appears more frequently-mocha. Careful you will find that the same menu reads "Yemen mocha","Ethiopian mocha","Coffee mocha" and "Ice mocha", which makes people confused. Also known as mocha, what are the differences between these four kinds of coffee and what is the relationship?……Looking around with confused eyes, I inadvertently found that there were several large and small silver octagonal pots on the coffee display shelf in the store-the name was also labeled "Mocha pot", and more confused, what is "Mocha"? So I asked the barista, and the barista said:

In fact, all the mocha coffee in the past has a common source, which originates from the Yemeni port of Al-Mokha on the Red Sea coast. Yemen, as the first country in the world to grow coffee artificially in large areas, was in a monopoly position in coffee exports around the 17th century, while it was located on the coast of the Red Sea as a sea gateway between Asia and Europe. Mocha Port was also a famous port at that time. All coffee exported to Europe had to be shipped out of this port, so Europeans called this mysterious black bean from the Arab world mocha-mocha was once synonymous with coffee.

Mocha Harbor, which was once a great place in history.

Mocha coffee from Yemen conquered European taste with its rich chocolate aroma and chocolate flavor, so mocha also represents a pure high-quality coffee. Even after Mocha Harbor gradually declined and was abandoned, the name of Mocha Coffee has been carried on by people.

The civil unrest in Yemen in the 1980s and 1990s caused a shortage of mocha coffee supply, so some coffee produced in Ethiopia with similar flavor to Yemen mocha was also named moka or moca instead of Yemen mocha, so there was "Ethiopian mocha"-also with strong chocolate aroma and flavor. In fact, the seeds of Yemeni mocha were originally transmitted from Ethiopia, so although these two kinds of coffee were grown in different environments, they all have the same flavor.

As for the coffee mocha, which has both cream and chocolate, it is actually named after mocha. However, this is a fancy coffee based on espresso. Chocolate sauce is added to espresso to make coffee have a strong chocolate flavor-similar to mocha flavor, so it is simply called mocha, or caffe mocha. Of course, caffe mocha also has its iced version, i.e. ice mocha.

What about the mocha pot? It's an Italian coffee maker. Why is it called a mocha pot? The reason is simple-since coffee is collectively referred to as "mocha", then the pot of brewing coffee is of course called "mocha pot".

If you know more about coffee history, 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 Indonesia and Mocha coffee from Yemen-extremely high alcohol, round taste, rich chocolate flavor and rich flavor make it a classic blend coffee.

Of course, in some coffee shops or bakeries, there is also a kind of bread called "mocha bread"-in general, this is also a kind of bread with coffee or coffee flavor.

This is where mocha comes from and all the definitions, so that we know mocha as a polysemous word, which can stand for two different origins of coffee: Ethiopian mocha and Yemeni mocha, fancy mocha coffee with cream chocolate and iced mocha, mocha pot as an instrument for making coffee, and even bread called mocha is coffee flavored bread.