Coffee culture is very new here.
Instant coffee with lots of sugar rules the day. At school that's all my
co-workers drink. It's hideous. We have a machine for it too...10 cents a cup.
Hideous.
I usually drink my coffee at home and drink green tea while at work. If I need a coffee,
I have these coffee tea bag things I keep around. They taste like diner coffee.
Back home it was all about this
Anytime I go back home I buy pounds and pounds of it.
Otherwise, I had friends that worked at JJ Bean coffee, which was nice. Cheap diner coffee that is refiilled all day is also nice.
Here, coffee is incredibly overpriced, $12 for 200 grams. The coffee also tends to be very low grade and completely not fresh.
I usually just buy a big bag of starbucks beans from costco...it's like $11 for a kilo and it's dark roast. I also discoverd a hole in the wall
coffee roaster near where I live. The dude studied coffee roasting in Japan and has wicked beans...but so pricey. $15
/200g.
However,
it's nice to have a choice between dark and medium ethiopian, costarican, java, columbian, and brazilian. It's also nice to have beans
that have been roasted the day before.
Plus, it's still way cheaper than if I was buying americanos at starbucks or something.