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Coffee of the day: London Stansted – UK

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I never would have thought that a coffee from an airport Starbucks would make it as coffee of the day, but I didn’t want to leave the UK without mentioning the current exchange rate.

Coffee of the day: London Stansted Airport - UK

Coffee of the day: London Stansted Airport - UK

At the moment 1 AUD is around 53 pence. In my 10 years of coming to the UK the Australian dollar has never been so strong. At one point 1 AUD got just 33 pence. So this £2 coffee in 2009 is a bargain at $3.77 . In the darkest days of the weak Australian dollar this £2 coffee would have cost me $6.06 AUD.

I never thought that I would be saying that I came to London and had a cheap holiday.

Coffee of the day: Bukit Lawang – Indonesia

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Sumatran coffee in Sumatra. It beats getting your Sumatran blend from Starbucks. The coffee in Sumatra is served with lots of grinds floating on top, which eventually settle.

Coffee Of The Day - Bukit Lawang

Like in much of Asia the milk in the coffee in Sumatra comes in the form of sweetened condensed creamer. Here though you get the creamer in the can and you can dispense your own serve. I am becoming addicted to this stuff. A non coffee drinker in our tour party was even helping himself to the creamer straight from the can.

Bukit Lawang is a jungle village about 4 hours north of Medan. The town is a base for visiting the orangutan rehabilitation centre in the Gunung Leuser National Park.

Coffee of the day: Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia

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I visited KL in 2006 and had what I believed to be one of the best iced coffees ever. I say what I believed because I don’t know if it was good as I remembered, or if it became a legend in my own mind.

Time has a way of making things seem better than they were. Sometimes on a hot day I would dream of having an iced coffee as good as the one from KL.

The iced coffee is from King of Tea in Chinatown.

King of Tea

King of Tea

Don’t let the name put you off, my fellow coffee fiends. Dont worry about Nescafe on the sign either. You’ll only get Nescafe if you ask for it.

The coffee is filtered though a Chinese coffee sock and mixed with sweetened condensed milk.

Chinese Coffee Sock

Chinese Coffee Sock

The coffee is then poured into a bag of ice.

Iced coffee in a bag

Iced coffee in a bag

It’s a strong and sweet brew and every bit as good as I remembered it to be, all for 1.60 MYR (40c US).