[Urbane Guerrilla]

Hey, do you like iced coffee?

Vietnamese style or Thai -- whatever, they're both good, aren't they?

Thai sugars the living heck out of the coffee, then floats heavy cream on it. I think they do the sweetening with simple syrup.

The Vietnamese is a Winnie-the-Pooh sort of approach: the coffee is straight, generally espresso-roast, and it gets turned into something like coffee ice cream, liquefied, by stirring in quite a bit of condensed milk. Darn good with ice, though you shouldn't let too much ice melt into the mixture or it gets diluted.

Fix that by freezing coffee in an ice tray for this purpose.

But try grating a little nutmeg into your coffee grounds before brewing. To taste, of course, but don't go too strong. You want a touch of the flavor, and the sweetness of the condensed milk will bring it out.

If cardamom is more your thing than nutmeg, grind a few pods of green cardamom in with your coffee, milk it and ice it as above.

And cardamom and nutmeg both -- they dance well together here, too.

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