Many Americans start their mornings with the same ritual, they wake up and grab a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, this is a popular ritual with people from all over the world. But where we divert from this ritual is in terms of how the coffee is prepared and even in the ingredients we use in our coffee. You might not appreciate pepper or lemon in your morning cup of coffee, but for some cultures, this is the norm.

If you are planning on taking a trip overseas to visit parts of Europe or other exciting places, don’t expect to frequent a local coffee shop and be served the equivalent of a salted caramel mocha. Unless, of course, you happen to walk into a Starbucks while traveling halfway around the world. But where is the sense of adventure in that?

When we take a look around the world, other countries are just as hooked on coffee as we are. Smokin’ Beans, your source for unroasted coffee beans, shows you how people in other parts of the world enjoy their coffee.

Vietnamese Coffee

Vietnam has a wonderful coffee concoction of its very own. Vietnamese coffee is made with a couple of tablespoons of sweetened condensed milk. A dark roast coffee is slowly dripped over the top of the sweetened condensed milk from a special type of metal filter. It is a time-consuming process to be sure. But when it is finally ready, you will find it was well worth the wait.

This is a practice that has been around since the 1800s, which is when the French introduced coffee to Vietnam. Condensed milk was used as fresh milk was extremely rare.

Turkish Coffee

Traditional Turkish coffee is prepared in a special small pot with a long handle called a cezve. Finely ground coffee and sugar is added to the cezve and then filled with water. Once the coffee comes to a boil, take it off the heat before it spills over and pour it in a small cup. Turkish coffee is unacceptable if there isn’t a lot of foam. You can expect to find an ample amount of ground coffee at the bottom of your cup. The grounds left at the bottom are often used for fortune-telling.

Ethiopian Coffee

Ethiopia is where it all began, the origin of coffee. Ethiopia is the heart of coffee country and the native homeland of the coffee bean. Coffee in Ethiopia is called buna and the people here have been drinking it the same way for more than 1,000 years.

Coffee making is a table-side ritual that transforms the beans from raw red cherries into a steaming hot drink all in front of the guest’s eyes. The process will last at least an hour, if not longer as the beans are toasted, ground and boiled before serving. And just so you know, coffee in Ethiopia is served with salt or butter instead of sugar.

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