bad news barista.

let's do coffee.
geographical event.
i never realized this until malaysia.

america: i thought that meant, we're meeting up at a coffee shop (most likely starbucks) and we'll chat while sipping on beverages for a short while. then we go our seperate ways.
-no foods are forced.
-most the time women in america will split a pastry and blush at the deciding to get it.
-or they will reject it all together.
-hell, or you will buy yourself something and chow down on your own without any guilt... well maybe some guilt.
point is, the food aspect. that is your decision in america. your fate has not been set out before you. the decision lies in your hands, and you fear not offending anyone with whatever decision is made.

malaysia: that means people are coming over or we're going there.
we might have a meal first?
or some sort of food will be served. <<<that i guarantee.
you must receive the food.
eat.
you may, if your name is talley: slip it into your purse / toss it below the table / "accidentally" spill / sneak it onto another plate / below the plate / give dish quickly to maid / hide food with orange peel-- got caught on that one / sneak food onto child's plate / -or if you're a pro, spit into a napkin
(another thing, they never have napkins?)
then coffee or tea will be offered.

let's expand on this shall we.

they all drink instant coffee?!!?!??!!!!
questioned it.
pushed it away.
fought it.
then hesitantly slurpped.
began to drink it.
dealt with it.
slowly requested it.
now i make it...

this upsets me to think about. i miss coffee. real coffee. i want nothing more than to grind some beans and steam some milk (not weird cardboard box milk either might i add, i want my organic cold horizon milk or i'd take braums but not this. not this room temperature wanna be milk nonsense).
i want a venti casi cielo coffee with one inch of 180 degree foamy whole milk with cinnamon on top.
fedex me one please. thanks.

back to the explanation of this event:
so when they bring out your coffee- it will have a teaspoon in it, because you have to stir it since it is made with instant coffee crystals...
they all put sugar in it and rarely ever do they put milk.
this always calls for trouble for me: i never put sugar in coffee.
if anything, i'd accept milk in it. i had them take my coffee back twice now due to sugar.
i can't and i won't do it. i'm not that polite. it's icky to my tongue. sorry world.
if they put milk, it is the box milk. which is most often soy.
then they bring some sort of crazy dessert that i hesitate to put in my mouth
--for those of y'all that don't know me well.. i'm not a dessert person to begin with, then these desserts.. they are hmmm, interesting one would politely state. maybe it is my poor dessert palate? i'll take that.
if i'm lucky, i get fresh fruit. this, now this i live for.
yummy fresh fruit in my tummy.
until they make me finish the plate so none goes to waste...
then it takes away from the beauty.
this hasn't happened but a couple times,
so don't view it negatively. just know, it can happen.

that is coffee talk.