My little coffee friend
Posted by Ryan Woods
I never used to drink coffee. When I lived in Portugal, however, I got sucked into the coffee drinking scene partly because I wanted to embrace their culture and thus gain some street cred (which I now possess in full) and partly because the coffee over there was cheaper and better than anything I've consumed here. Occasionally I'd order a bica, the standard shot of coffee in Portugal, but usually I'd get a meia de leite (I'm unsure of the spelling, though I was able to speak Portuguese decently, I never ever used its written form), it a shot of coffee that would have equal parts milk poured in over the top. In essence it was a milked down shot. It came in a little glass about twice the size of a shot glass and it was simple and delicious.
Here's the dealio yo, I don't know how to order that drink here. For one, nobody seems to understand that I'm not looking for a huge coffee, just slightly larger than a shot. For twos, when I say equal parts espresso and milk they look at me like I'm crazy. They start offering all these different random things, one time even getting me a cappuccino. Help me! I just want a cheap and simple little meia de leite. Should it really be this hard?
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