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In the early to mid nineties I worked in Tokyo outer suburbs on and off for a bit - working ridiculous hours. One fond-in-retrospect memory is in the late eveni
by anotherevan 3y ago
In the early to mid nineties I worked in Tokyo outer suburbs on and off for a bit - working ridiculous hours. One fond-in-retrospect memory is in the late evening or early AM hours going up to a vending machine on the train platform, getting a nice hot can of coffee and sticking it and my hands in my coat pockets to keep warm until the train got there. Then once in the heated carriage cracking it open and drinking it to keep me awake for the ride back to the hotel.
- geswit2x 3y agoI'd pay to know more about that story lol
- anotherevan 3y agoWell one time I broke a tooth. Using my little Japanese/English phrase book I told the concierge at my hotel who took me to a local dentist. The dentist whacked a temporary filling in and via the concierge's rudimentary English told me to get it fixed when I got home. The only thing he said to me directly, and with no trace of an accent mind you, was, "Open wide, please."
- geswit2x 3y agohahahahahaahah
- version_five 3y agoIn Japanese, tooth is Ha (歯,は)
- rmbyrro 3y agoDidn't it ruin your sleep?
- anotherevan 3y agoWith the hours I was working at the time, no.
- 255kb 3y agoHaving worked in Tokyo during summer, I long for cold coffee cans. In Europe we can only find Starbucks cans full of sugar and milk :(
- biztos 3y agoIn Bangkok I sometimes grab a Boss Coffee[0] from the 7-11 and I'm inevitably surprised by how not-bad it is. (I was thrilled to find a serious coffee culture in Thailand that rivals anything outside of Portland or Italy, but coffee at night is not a thing.) [0]: https://www.suntory.com/brands/boss/ https://www.suntory.com/brands/boss/
- fennecfoxy 3y agoYou can! There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brown_Coffee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brown_Coffee German/Euro site: https://mrbrown-coffee.de/ https://mrbrown-coffee.de/. It's made by a company in Taiwan, but I'm pretty sure the local stuff is made in Europe. I first tried it when I went to Cyprus, they do a "Mr. Black" as well, which is just plain black coffee in a can. It's so freaking good when chilled. I live in the UK (NZ originally) and so on return I missed it, but found that the greek shops near me readily sell it. So you should be able to find it in Europe. Not as good as boss coffee etc but still holds a stick, give it a shot!
- paulcapewell 3y agoI've never seen it in the UK, but having seen it in Cyprus, I will have to check out Greek Cypriot stores in London now...
- fennecfoxy 3y agoFio's usually seems to stock it from what I've seen, they have a few locations around North London.
- skhr0680 3y agoThey used to make hot drinks really hot just for the purpose you mentioned, but in the last few years they are just lukewarm to save money on electricity
- hnben 3y agoI guess also to avoid bodily harm. Iirc the famous hot-coffee lawsuit (about a woman suing mc donalds because the coffee was too hot), was because it was much hotter than it needed to be, which gave her 2nd (3rd?) degree burns (also I think the lid wasn't correctly attached?) and she hat to pay >$10000 in hospital bills. Thanks to you comment I finally know why the coffee was so hot in the first place.