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title: 'description of a certain kind of coffee in Singapore'
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A certain kind of coffee in Singapore has been described as 'too bitter and
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too sweet at the same time', if I am not mistaken in my recollection.
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> "When we tail ministers or members of parliaments in their tours of
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the orderly housing estates, I buy them [the camera crew] little plastic bags of milky tea
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or coffee. These brews are always too sweet and too bitter at the same
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time..." - Joanne Leow, 2016.
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["Journalism and Jiujitsu: The gentle arts of a dictatorship"](https://catapult.co/stories/journalism-and-jiujitsu).
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Coffee, when bought in Singapore, is not necessarily in the style of an
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Americano, espresso, Long Black and the like. In my experience, the ones that
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cost SGD$0.70 to $1.50 tend to not be espresso-like or even latte-like - the latter
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cost, maybe, upwards of SGD$3.
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This might be an alert to seekers of coffee who are new in Singapore.
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