Coffee visit in Southeast Asia-- Malaysian Coffee

Malaysia has more in common with Singapore in cafe culture and coffee drinking, but Malaysia is the only Liberica coffee producer in the world outside West Africa. This kind of coffee is rich in aroma and light in flavor, accounting for less than 2% of the world's cultivation. The taste of this coffee is not acceptable to everyone, so its market is weaker than that of Arabica or Robusta. Malaysians are also gradually abandoning the cultivation of this kind of coffee, or switching to other varieties, of course, more people choose oil palm. And Liberika coffee is becoming more and more weak, even in Malaysia, it is only enough for self-sale.

The most famous of the new old-fashioned coffee chains in Malaysia is Old Town, which has made Ipoh White Coffee the representative of Malaysian coffee. Cafes such as Typica in Kuala Lumpur still roast the dwindling Liberika coffee by hand, bringing it back to its roots and sometimes paying three times as much for beans, allowing growers to keep it. Traditional Liberika coffee is roasted with sugar to make it darker and drink without sugar.

White coffee from Indonesia is roasted with no sugar but only butter, so it is relatively light in color. Compared with local coffee, white coffee does not have a long history. It first came from Ipoh (Malaysia's fourth largest city, mostly Chinese. Cantonese is the lingua franca). In the early years, it was famous for tin mines, and most of the French settled in, and the first Chinese to come here were tin miners. The so-called Old Town is generally known as the old street farm of Ipo. there are also several of the oldest Kopitiam, Xinyuanlong, Xinyuanfeng and Nanxiang, which can eat orthodox white coffee, which is not much different from the traditional Kopitiam.