all knowledge is contained in Livejournal

[coraa]

This is a coffee-related question.

jmpava and I go to this pho place called Than Brothers (really good!), and one of the things we always get is the coffee-with-condensed-milk. It comes out like this: a glass with condensed milk in the bottom, and then, at the top, a little metal thing containing the coffee grounds (how finely ground I don't know) and water. Slowly, over the course of maybe 5 mintues, the coffee drains out of the little metal thing (which has a perforated bottom) and into the cup. Then you remove the metal thing, stir, and drink. The little metal coffee-containing thing looks kind of like a top hat.

It makes really, really awesome coffee. (How awesome? jmpava orders it eagerly. That awesome.) Does anyone know what it's called? I'd love to order one for myself, but I don't know what to search for, and googling 'metal coffee hat' has not turned up anything useful (shocking!).

Comments

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I dunno how different it is from a french press in form, but the resulting coffee seems both stronger and... hard to describe, thicker. Almost like the difference between espresso and regular coffee. I suspect it's got a finer filter in it, and the coffee is accordingly ground much finer.

(More knowledgeable people than me have already answered, though. :D )