On Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 3:10:48 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-04-02 8:09 p.m., Je�us wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 19:41:16 -0400, Dave Smith
>
> >> I was quite impressed with Vietnamese style coffee when I had it. I
> >> usually drink coffee black, so the sweetened condensed milk added
> >> something I am not used to.
> >
> > I don't have a sweet tooth, but I do love it with the Vietnamese
> > coffee. It's quite a strong, bitter coffee because they use Robusta
> > beans. It compliments it so well and gives it a thick consistency.
> > They also do a version with egg yolk, which may sound bizarre but is
> > also delicious.
> >
>
> Between the SCM and that powerful coffee there is a lot of good flavour.
> I wish there as some way to do it without that sweetness.
> >
> >> The first time I had it was after dinner,
> >> and I was awake until about 4 am.
> >
> > LOL, yes. It's probably the strongest coffee I've ever had. But it
> > tastes so damned good. 1 cup is enough, when I have two I'm buzzing
> > for a couple of hours.
>
> I wish I had known about that stuff when I used to have to work midnight
> shifts. I could have had one coffee very early in the shift and I would
> have been buzzed all night. There are times when I have had trouble
> sleeping because I had too much coffee or had it too late in the
> evening, but this was early evening, about 6:30, and it worked hours
> longer than coffee has ever lasted on me before.

I love condensed milk but that stuff gives me diarrhea. My guess is that it's the same with other Asians. That's the mystery of Vietnamese coffee. I asked the VN guy at work but he skirted the issue and I never got a straight answer. My guess is that those guys have built up an immunity to condensed milk by drinking the stuff regularly. The food researchers should be studying this medical mystery.