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 2 years ago (edited) 

In Malaysia, if you order coffee, you'll get sweetened milk coffee. If you order tea, you will get sweetened milk tea. Our local standard is, everything came with sweetened milk. So, to avoid milk, you literally need to add O at the back.

To order black coffee, you need to shout "Copy 'O". Then the restaurant operator will understand you're ordering black coffee. "O" is referring to a Chinese dialect, black.

However, that doesn't stop them to making your black coffee sweet. In order to taste a good cup of Malaycano(I know it's not funny by super rhyme the Malaysian Americano), you literally need to order as "Copy 'O Cosong". Kosong is in Bahasa, meaning empty.

Charm, also have different "stage" 🤣 the northern peninsular fella prefer 1 part tea with 2 part coffee. The central region prefer half tea and half coffee. The southern though, go with 2 part tea with 1 part coffee. However, the taste being mixed nowadays. People tend to request southern taste up north, and the younger generation seems prefer tea more than coffee.

And charm is not immune to the localized standard. Avoid milk, need to order as Charm 'O. To avoid both milk and sugar, gotta go with Charm 'O Cosong.

Don't learn this until you have a chance to visit. I'm just writing it up to fill up the comment section 🤣

 2 years ago  

This comment is better than many posts I read, no worries at all, fill it up.