{"id":89,"date":"2005-10-25T19:07:34","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T10:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-10-25\/89"},"modified":"2005-10-25T19:07:34","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T10:07:34","slug":"two-coffee-at-home-in-japan-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-10-25\/89","title":{"rendered":"Two Coffee-at-Home-in-Japan Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

\n\nI love coffee, but it's hard to find a good<\/span> cup, especially decaf.\nParticularly since I can't<\/span> have a lot<\/span> of caffeine, we don't drink enough\ncoffee to make a coffee<\/span>-maker worthwhile. So, what's one to do for a good<\/span> cup\nof coffee at home?\n\n<\/p>\n

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Hot Coffee<\/h3>\n\n

\n\n\nLuckily, once while visiting an office, I was served<\/span> a cup<\/span> of coffee so\ntasty that I had<\/span> to ask its source. It turned<\/span> out to be a Brooks single-serving\n“drip-pack coffee”<\/a>. As the image<\/span> on the right (which I stole<\/span> from their\nweb site) shows, these are small packs of coffee grounds with a built<\/span>-in\nholder that folds out and allows the pack to be positioned above the cup,\ninto which you then pour boiling water.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThey have many types, including “Moka”, “Brazil”, “Columbian”, “Guatemala”,\n“Kenya”, “Mild Blend”, “European Blend”, and a bunch<\/span> of flavored ones,\nincluding “Caramel” and “Chocolate Cream”. They even have a decaf<\/span> version.\n\n<\/p>\n\n

\n\nThe flavor-added ones sounded disgusting at first (I drink<\/span> my coffee\nblack), but despite having a wonderfully<\/span> penetrating aroma, the flavor\nitself is light and very well balanced. It's good coffee<\/span> with a hint<\/span> of\nflavoring, where the flavoring knows that it's second fiddle to the good\ncoffee taste.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe prices are reasonable, too. A set of<\/span> 75 packs (mix of five different\nflavors) costs 26 yen (about 23 US cents) each, and that's after tax, with\nfree shipping. When you buy in larger quantities (200 packs), the price\ngoes down to about 19 yen (16 cents) each. Recommended.\n\n<\/p>\n

Ice Coffee<\/h3>\n

\n\nWith ice coffee, probably more popular in Japan than hot coffee, it's even\nharder to find a good<\/span> cup. I drink<\/span> hot coffee black, but for some reason I\n\nfind<\/span> that ice coffee needs a bit<\/span> of sugar and milk. Maybe that's because I\nsimply<\/span> can't find a truly<\/span> good cup. Anyway, after having tried many, I stumbled<\/span> upon 7-11<\/a>'s\n\u3044\u3064\u3082\u306e\u30b3\u30fc\u30d2\n(“Anytime Coffee”), made for 7-11 by UCC<\/a>, a large<\/span> Japanese coffee company.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThis ice coffee comes in liter packs, like milk and orange juice. It's lightly<\/span> sweetened, and unlike any other ice coffee I can<\/span> recall, actually\ntastes good. I have it<\/span> over ice with a splash<\/span> of milk. And being<\/span> 7-11's\nhouse brand, it's easy to find. I wish there<\/span> was a decaf<\/span> version, but I've\nnever seen a decaf<\/span> ice coffee in Japan, ever. (Decaf anything is not\npopular in Japan; Coke-Cola doesn't even sell Caffeine-Free Coke in Japan.)\n\n<\/p>

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I love coffee, but it's hard to find a good cup, especially decaf. Particularly since I can't have a lot of caffeine, we don't drink enough coffee to make a coffee-maker worthwhile. So, what's one to do for a good cup of coffee at home? <\/p> Hot Coffee

Luckily, once while visiting an office, I was served a cup of coffee so tasty that I had to ask its source. It turned out to be a Brooks single-serving \"drip-pack coffee\". As the image on the right (which I stole from their web site) shows, these are small packs [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}