Hong Kong-style Coffee
Also cha chaan teng coffee, 港式咖啡, sock coffee
The cha chaan teng's coffee: sock-brewed and softened with evaporated milk and sugar, a close cousin of Hong Kong milk tea.
RegionalServed hotFrom Hong Kong
- Volume
- 230ml7.8 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 72mgderived, USDA FDC
- Coffee to milk
- 1:0.2
The build
Watch it made, step by step- strong coffee brewed in a…180 ml78%
- Milk40 ml17%
- Syrup10 ml4%
- Volume
- 230ml
- Caffeine
- 72mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Sock-filtered coffee with evaporated milk and sugar, the same milk treatment as Hong Kong milk tea.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 230 ml hong kong-style coffee
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 180 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
2| Name | Country | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| yuenyeung | Hong Kong | Mixed with milk tea. |
| kopi-c | Singapore | Singaporean kopi with evaporated milk. |
History
Popular accountCha chaan teng drinks menu of post-war Hong Kong; Wikidata has the restaurant type but not the drink. We have not found a primary source for this account.
Hong Kong cha chaan teng restaurants.
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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