DIRTY COFFEE

DIRTY COFFEE

Dirty coffee literally the result of the brewing that is going crazy is indeed a dirty coffee.

But it is not the coffee that gets dirty, on the contrary: the coffee dirties the milk.

Remember the recipe for Dalgona Coffee

Again, cold milk and coffee are needed, the milk must be very cold while the coffee must be very hot because it is precisely the contrast between the temperatures that creates the dirty effect.

And in this case too, the inspiration comes from the East.

Dirty Coffee inventor Katsuyuki Tanaka of Bear Pond Espresso ベアポンドエクスプレス in Tokyo.

Dirty Coffee

Japan, then.

Inevitably, one thinks back to Toshikazu Kawaguchi川口俊和‘s trilogy and Before the coffee gets cold

In this case, however, Katsu brings with him his part of life in New York‘s East Village.

Katsu tells how it all started with a New York Times columnist.

How is layering achieved?

Iced milk: must be prepared by filling a transparent glass with whole milk. The temperature of the milk must be very low to create this thermal contrast with the espresso.

Coffee: prepare a ristretto espresso.

Pour carefully: pour the coffee over the cold milk little by little and gently. The espresso will sit on top of the milk, slowly descending to create an attractive layered effect.

Don’t stir: for a perfect Dirty Coffee just refrain from stirring the drink.

Are you of the type: I discover a new preparation and immediately feel inspired to try it?

Will you tell me about your Dirty Coffee?

PACHINKO

PACHINKO

Pachinko パチンコ is the name of something that is perhaps less understandable to Westerners, but only because we have other manifestations of alienation and ludopathy.

Pachinko パチンコcould be synonymous with mockery.

Verbal Kint taught us that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that… he is gone. 

Even gambling in Japan “does not exist” because it is banned. And it disappears under the name “entertainment” definition by which Pachinko is classified.

Many of us have been through a Pachinko parlor running: along with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in the movie Lost in Translation. 

 

Pachinko is a hybrid game, we could say it is the representation of contamination: halfway between a pinball machine and a slot machine.

The trick is precisely the balls that from the game become the very object of winning but cannot be exchanged for money.

By playing Pachinko you can only get prizes of various kinds: chocoloate bars, pens, lighters, candy, T-shirts, cosmetics, bicycles, shopping vouchers, up to so-called “special” prizes i.e. silver or gold objects enclosed in plastic bags.

These special prizes can be exchanged at points outside but nearby Pachinko Parlours: the TUC Shops = Tokyo Union Circulation

I found precise regulations regarding the installation of these phantom vertical pinball machines, but the risk of addiction?

These Pachinko Parlors are places where people are subjected to extremely high noise levels and bright lights.

The players appear to be sitting helpless, completely estranged, as if without identity in the flow of these slow, mechanical movements that cancel out time.

I am very struck by the slogan of a company that runs Pachinko Parlors:

Joy in life

We resolve to bring joy to the lives of our staff, our customers, and society as a whole through our business.

I do not see joy.

 

 

I found a survey from which it mainly shows that the Pachinko Parlour is a place to go alone.

A ball weighs 5.4 gr. a one-dollar box contains two thousand balls, so the weight corresponds to kg. 10.8!

 

I was thinking … with ten kg. of coffee how many cups can we get?  🙂  😉

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