Es Kopi Susu

Also es kopi susu gula aren, Indonesian iced milk coffee

Indonesia's iced milk coffee sweetened with palm sugar, the drink behind the country's 2010s takeaway coffee boom.

IcedServed icedFrom Indonesia

Volume
285ml9.6 US fl oz
Espresso
1shot
Caffeine
64mgderived, USDA FDC
Coffee to milk
1:3.0

The build

Watch it made, step by step
Highball, 300 ml. Layers in pouring order from the bottom, drawn by volume.
  1. Espresso40 ml14%
  2. Milk120 ml42%
  3. Syrup25 ml9%
  4. Ice100 ml35%
Volume
285ml
Caffeine
64mg
Espresso
1shot

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

Espresso, fresh milk and palm sugar syrup over ice; the signature of Jakarta's cheap takeaway coffee chains.

Caffeine

Derived
64mg

in a 285 ml es kopi susu

Derived per shot: USDA FoodData Central FDC 171891 (espresso, restaurant-prepared) lists 212 mg per 100 g; a standard 30 g shot is about 63.6 mg, times 1 shot(s). Real values vary with dose, roast and species (robusta roughly doubles it).

USDA FoodData Central record 171891 · 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

2
NameCountryHow it differs
kopi susuIndonesiaHot coffee with condensed milk, the traditional version.
kopi pengMalaysiaMalaysian iced kopi.

History

Popular account

Wikidata records Indonesia as origin and coffee, milk and palm sugar as parts of 'kopi susu gula aren'. Chains such as Kopi Kenangan and Janji Jiwa spread it from 2017 (popular account).

Indonesia; the 2010s grab-and-go café drink.

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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