Cham

Also kopi cham, yuanyang (Malaysia)

Malaysia's half-coffee, half-tea with condensed milk, served hot or iced at kopitiams.

RegionalServed hotFrom Malaysia

Volume
240ml8.1 US fl oz
Espresso
0shots
Caffeine
40mgderived, USDA FDC
Coffee to milk
1:0.4

The build

Watch it made, step by step
Mug, 250 ml. Layers in pouring order from the bottom, drawn by volume.
  1. Sock-brewed kopi100 ml42%
  2. Strong black tea100 ml42%
  3. Condensed milk40 ml17%
Volume
240ml
Caffeine
40mg
Espresso
0shots

Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.

Half coffee, half tea with condensed milk; the Malaysian counterpart of Hong Kong's yuenyeung.

Caffeine

Derived
40mg

in a 240 ml cham

USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 100 ml.

USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · read 2026-10-26

A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.

Variants by country

1
NameCountryHow it differs
yuenyeungHong KongHong Kong version with milk tea.

History

Popular account

Kopitiam vocabulary; not confirmed by a primary source.

Malaysia; 'cham' means mixed.

Popular account

Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.

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