"Mike O'Sullivan" > wrote in message
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> cullulloo wrote:
>> Just back from three weeks in Amsterdam. Something new to me was the
>> fact that all the coffee served to us , at numerous cafe's and
>> restaurants was made using pressure machines , not a drip machine in
>> sight.
>>
>> We weren't asking for expresso, capachino or anything other than plain
>> coffee. And it was (almost) uniformly delicious. My wife drank her's
>> black and I had mine white, with warm milk.
>
> Dead right. One of the best things about travel to Amsterdam. Even the
> cheapest hotel, with the moist decrepit coffee machines seem to serve
> delicious coffee. Wish I knew why.

I don't know if this is still true or not. In 1988 on a trip to Japan I was
astounded that so many, many coffee shops served coffee made from the most
fantastic looking machines and one could order on a big menu on the wall the
type of coffee you want. The different types of machines will always stick
in my mind. I never had a bad cup of coffee in Japan.

On a trip to Montreal I went to one cafe that one was able to order from a
menu on the wall your preference of coffee, but I don't recall that the
machine was anything astonishing as the different machines I saw in Japan.

The main thing I remember about coffee on a trip to Amsterdam many, many
years ago was that cream was served in a little chocolate cup which looked
like a dark-brown candy container that you see in a box of chocolates. Just
being newly married, my husband didn't ask me why I didn't eat the chocolate
cup until much later on in our trip. I really regret the ones I didn't eat.
Dee