'Cham' (pronounced usually as "chum") is simply a mixture of coffee and tea with condensed milk and sugar added in. A simple drink but if you don't like your coffee to be too strong then the taste of the coffee which is tempered by the taste of the tea may be something that you may like. It is a popular drink in my hometown. Any 'kopitiam' will make one upon request.
Just had a drink of 'cham' in a latest style air-conditioned 'kopitiam' somewhere near my house. Here's the 'cham'.
It was excellent. To get the right combination of coffee and tea to make 'cham', there must not be too much coffee as it will drown the taste of the tea and it will just taste like coffee. Too much tea and it taste like funny tea.Sounds simple but to me its not easy to get the combination right. It is not just pouring tea and coffee together. As such it brought back memories of the 'cham' that I had in my hometown. Conversations with friends in my hometown whom I now do not know where they are. Breakfast with my mum and and dad and my siblings when I was younger. Not everyone appreciates the drink but for me I love it. My friends may order their coffee but I will order a 'cham'.
'Cham' and Breakfast with a hot bowl of noodles in soup or noodles mixed in thick soya sauce. Accompanied by fishballs and fishpaste stuffed in tofu skin which have been deepfried until crunchy. Also fishpaste stuffed in tofu or vegetables such as brinjals and deepfried. More of noodles and breakfast when the right time comes to post about them.
I say 'cham' gose well with toast. By that I mean toast with butter and 'kaya'. Here's the toast which was ordered together with my 'cham'.
There's nothing like the simple pleasures of life. What a pleasant way to spend part of the afternoon. Frendships. Conversations. Family. A drink. A toast.
My 'cham' and my toast.
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Cham sounds really intriguing: do they use different flavors of tea, or just one standard, garden-variety kind? It would be fun to experiment (altho I must admit, nothing beats my latte---mmmmmnnn!).
And tofu skin? Wow, I'd never heard of that nor seen it, altho I eat quite a bit of tofu itself. I'm wondering how that works, bec. tofu is so brittle, it doesn't seem like it would stretch to make a "skin"---is it more a matter of the tofu acting like a batter?