Re: No Exit & Sartre
- From: Khiem Tran <nguyen_khiem_tran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:31:16 +1000
Alma Hromic Deckert wrote:
I'll drink tea, but in certain circumstances only. So here's another vote: tea... medium (depending on the tea) but certainly not too strong; coffee...well, if you can put a teaspoon in it and it stands up by itself, it's good...
For me, it's not so much how it tastes as where it takes me.
A flawless espresso, dark roast, and I'm back in a Melbourne cafe, on a weekend, among friends.
A Vietnamese /caphe phin/, with robusta beans and a hint of the cherry flesh, and I'm sitting upstairs in a Trung Nguyen Cafe in Ha Noi, watching the chaos of the streets below, with the tourists and the cyclos and the touts and the traffic and the other people watching without looking like they're watching.
A bubble tea with "black pearls" and I'm back in Taipei in a tiny teahouse where I first tried one. ("Where's your friend from?", my companion was asked. "From Australia." "Oh, so you were speaking German to him?" "No, AUSTRALIA - where the koalas come from...")
A good cappuccino, and it's late at night at the old Il Mondo, in Wollongong, and I'm brainstorming with my former workmates.
A tiny cup of "gongfu" tea, and I'm in a Chiu Chow restaurant in Causeway Bay.
A strong pot of Irish Breakfast in white china, and I'm back at the Belfast Hilton.
A warm frothy /kopi panas/ in a glass tumbler with condensed milk, and I'm in Petaling Jaya, eating Indian food at a banana leaf restaurant...
Khiem. .
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