[Urbane Guerrilla]

An ordinary dark-roast coffee is good a la Vietnamese, but for the full-on effect, served the way Flint describes where it takes long enough to drip through the gadget for you to sing "Anticipation," the coffee has to be espresso-roast, smoky and black as the Heart of Darkness.

Are we gettin' all Star-Bucky in here or what?

{I better take that back about "the other way to make Vietnamese iced coffee" -- that other way is Thai iced coffee. As tasty, but not so creamy-syrupy in the mouth.}