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Sunday is categorically the worst day of the week. With Monday impending, ie: Work the clock just ticks away. So i decided to pay a 2nd visit to Typica with wife and friends, one of those rare places tucked away in a back alley in KL that serves caffeine in it’s purer form.

Typica specializes in drip/syphon coffee. I find it a great match for iced coffee. Just a sip and you come to the realization that the kopi O ping you’ve had the other day was .. distastefully unpure.

Iced Drip Coffee

Sin Hong – admiring his expensive coffee

I went on to order a cake. Some are better than others but generally homemade and all taste above average.

Chocolate and Marble Cheese Cake – anxiously awaiting coffee

To get a glimpse of the coffee making process, order one of the “blends”, a concoction of beans and insists on it done using syphon drip, instead of normal filtered coffee. You will soon be chanced with a whiff of the coffee beans that will make your drink.

Coffee Beans for Inspection

Take a seat at one of the bar top stools and observe ….

Fresh coffee beans are grinded

The beans are mixed into the upper chamber of the syphon where it is boiled in a controlled manner to bring out the taste

The coffee is stirred and timed by smell

When ready, the coffee is allowed to filter down

All the lab like apparatus gives you a cup of syphon coffee :

A cup of Syphon Coffee

The coffee’s pricey (expect RM14 for Syphon) but is safely better than any filtered/drip coffee out there. But since i like mine with milk i miss the crema and the texture of a cuppa done through an expresso machine. Ultimately – how many shops can you count in KL that laboriously cooks up coffee one at a time for you, with a passion and conviction that theirs is the best? That perhaps is worth the price of the experience.

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