Coffee drink category diagram illustrating the composition of fancy coffee

Recently, I found that Lokesh Dhakar has drawn a "Coffee Beverage Type Map", which explains the difference between nine coffee drinks, which is simple and easy to understand.

Espresso / Italian coffee / espresso / Espresso

The pressurized vapor passes directly through the coffee powder, and the resulting liquid is called espresso. It belongs to pure coffee and is the base of other coffee drinks.

American Coffee / Black Coffee / Americano

1 espresso + 2 water

White Coffee / Flat White

1 espresso + 1.5 hot milk

4. Maggiadoto / Macchiato / Macchiato

1 espresso + 0.5 milk foam (fat in milk)

Herbalife / Combana / Con Panna

1 espresso + 0.5 whipped cream

6. Latte / Latte

1 espresso + 1.5 hot milk + 0.5 milk foam

7. Brev / half latte / Breve

1 espresso + 0.75 hot milk + 0.75 whipped cream + 0.5 milk foam

8. Cappuccino / Cappuccino

1 espresso + 0.5 hot milk + 1.5 milk foam

IX. Mocha / Mocha

1 espresso + 1 hot milk + 0.5 chocolate sauce + 0.5 fresh cream

Esprssso Italian style is very strong.

Espresso is an Italian word that refers to a strong coffee that is rapidly extracted by a coffee machine in a short period of time. It is the basis of almost all fancy coffee and a must-have in cafes all over the world. Espresso is a very small cup, usually only about 30 milliliters, the taste is very bitter, the surface is floating with a thick layer of oil, will be with a cup of water, you can choose to add sugar. Guests who order Espresso in the cafe are either real coffee lovers who want to taste the most authentic taste of coffee, or simply because they are extremely sleepy and in urgent need of refreshing. People who want to spend a leisurely afternoon in a cafe are not suitable for this. The Esprssso of some cafes can choose "Single single" or "Double double". Double does not mean two cups, but means to extract with double coffee powder, which will be more bitter.

Americano American Coffee

The "coffee of the day" in many cafes is actually American coffee, which is usually the cheapest on the cafe menu. To put it bluntly, American coffee is a small cup of Esprssso mixed with more than half a cup of boiled water, and some cafes use drip coffee pots to brew. American coffee is light in taste, light in color, slightly sour and slightly bitter, and usually serves milk and sugar in cafes. If the waiter gives you cream, you might as well ask for fresh milk.

Caf é Latte latte

Latte is a classic mixture of Espresso and milk. A small amount of Espresso is poured into the bottom of the cup, and then a lot of milk is added. The top of the latte is a thick layer of foam. Skilled baristas will pull out a variety of patterns on the foam. There is a kind of "Ole coffee" in France, which is almost a national drink, much like a latte, except that milk and coffee are poured into the cup at the same time. Lattes are very popular in Chinese cafes with moderate prices and high performance-to-price ratio. A good latte has a good taste of coffee and milk, while a bad one may be like drinking a cup of hot milk with coffee flavor.

Cappuccino cappuccino

Once upon a time, Xiao Yaxuan's song "Cappuccino" was popular all over the country, and the sentence "Love is like Cappuccino, thick nostalgia foam" in the lyrics made everyone know the characteristics of this kind of coffee-foam. Cappuccino and latte have the same ingredients as Espresso+ milk + milk foam, except that there are more cappuccino milk bubbles than milk, and lattes have more milk than milk bubbles. Cappuccinos of the same price are usually smaller than lattes, but the coffee is more intense. The collision of dense milk foam and bitter coffee is also loved by a large number of customers, especially girls.

Caf é Mocha mocha coffee

The ingredients of mocha are relatively complex. On the basis of Espresso and milk, there is chocolate sauce, not foam at the top, but whipped cream, often squeezed with chocolate sauce, or sprinkled with cocoa powder and cinnamon powder to have a special flavor. Because "rich in content", the price is usually higher, but also relatively large cups. Both chocolate and cream taste sweet, so mocha coffee is an example of the combination of bitterness and sweetness.

Macchiato Macchiato

Macchiato is also translated by many cafes as "Macchiato", which simply means scooping a few spoonfuls of milk foam into a cup of Espresso. The coffee is still strong, and you can enjoy the delicate milk foam. We often hear "caramel macchiato", which is said to be original by adding vanilla syrup to the milk, mixing it with Espresso coffee, and then covering the milk foam with a layer of caramel.

Espresso con Panna espresso Campbell Blue / caf é Breve Brevi / Flat White White Coffee

These three kinds of coffee are relatively rare in domestic cafes, but it is always good to know about them, in case one day you will not be confused. Kangbao blue is Espresso coffee + cream; Brevie is Espresso coffee + hot cream with milk foam on the surface; and white coffee is not that specialty of Malaysia, but a latte without milk foam!