Uniquely Singapore
March 28, 2008
Overheard from a coffeeshop, the Singaporean way to order your cuppa…
Coffee with less sugar = Kopi Siu Dai
Coffee with even lesser sugar = Kopi Siu Siu Dai
Hot Chocolate/Milo = Tak Kiu (Football, in reference to the soccer lad on Milo tins)
Chinese Tea = Diao Yu (Fishing, as tea bags look similar to fishing rods)
Lemon Tea = Clementi (A pun on the name of a Western district in Singapore)
Most coffeeshop uncles & aunties(another unique trait of SE Asia, greeting all elders Uncle or Auntie) understand this, a coffeeshop code of sorts.
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