Comments on: Coffee

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:26:51 +0000

I remember ‘Creap’… and ‘Calpis’ (not a milk imposter) which for some unimaginable reason is named ‘Calpico’ here… But aren’t the Japanese obsessed with coffee flavoured stuffs?… ie yoghurt and jelly and all those coffe can drinks etc. I think they prefer it minus milk and often minus sugar… which is my preference. Iced coffee in Asia is usually black, without sugar and containing ice (crushed or cubes) which is something I was obsessed with when I was pregnant… and still rather enjoy in that extra humid climate…. No accounting for taste I guess!

By: Fish Wife

Fish Wife — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:27:14 +0000

Wow, doesn’t the word coffee strike a chord. It has always been something very close to your heart Sime. Hate to admit it and may increase the number of threads here but when I was in Japan, here it comes, hold on…can’t go past Starbucks

By: gords

gords — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:56:19 +0000

Hi Kojima. I live in Brasil too, but havnt found a coffee as good as the Cafe Simon used to buy for me in the corner coffee bar in Balaclava
(East St Kilda)
Loving your BLOGG Simon. Gords

By: simon

simon — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:13:44 +0000

Hey all
Thanks for your comments.
Good to hear that there is good coffee out there after all; I guess I just wasn’t looking hard enough. Although, I lived in Tokyo in the dark ages before the internet and was reliant on word of mouth… so obviously my sources weren’t good enough.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:19:22 +0000

There IS some good coffee, in Tokyo anyway. I discovered some of it through this website:
http://tokyoespresso.blogspot.com/

Despite the blog’s name, he also writes about brewed coffee. One place I visited, Cafe Verde in Shibuya, is a temple to brewed coffee. The guy is ultra-conscientious. Here are my photos of the place:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aranciaproject/sets/72157617322663109/

By: Kojima

Kojima — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:25:50 +0000

O, I forgot. About chains… try this one.
http://www.cafedocentro.com/index.html

By: Kojima

Kojima — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:22:10 +0000

In my time in Tokyo, I had the chance to drink some of the best cup of coffe in my life. And I know what I’m talking, ’cause I’m from Sao Paulo, a place with excelente coffe shops.

Forget the cafe chains and all that American coffee craps and get to small shops where the owner take the coffe for you. Try some vacuum siphon. You will like it.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:41:17 +0000

I mostly agree, but much like anything else, there are some Japanese people that take coffee extremely seriously:

http://ow.ly/1cWjv

Just don’t have much of that round my end of Japan….