At kopi tiams (Chinese: 咖啡店 literally: "coffee shop"), coffee and tea are usually ordered using a specific vernacular featuring terms from different languages. "Kopi" (coffee) and "teh" (tea) can be tailored to suit the drinker's taste by using the following suffixes when ordering:
- "Peng" (Chinese: 冰; pinyin: bīng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peng; literally: "ice"): with ice
- "C": with evaporated milk
- "Siew dai": less sugar
- "O": black, no milk
- "O Kosong" ("Kosong"="Nothing"): black, no sugar
- "kao": extra thick
- "Poh": extra thin
- "Milo": chocolate milk drink
Some of the more common foods that can be seen in kopi tiams, besides the ever-popular eggs and toast, consist of char kway tiao (fried hor fun, sometimes cooked with eggs and cockles), Hokkien mee (mee noodles served with various seafoods as well as egg) and, possibly the most common, nasi lemak, or coconut rice (a Malay dish of coconut-flavoured rice, served with sambal chilli paste, egg, and ikan billis or anchovies).
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