Thai Iced Coffee
Also kafae yen, oliang with milk, กาแฟเย็น
Thailand's iced coffee: strong cloth-bag coffee with condensed and evaporated milk over ice. Its black version is oliang.
IcedServed icedFrom Thailand
- Volume
- 300ml10.1 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 48mgderived, USDA FDC
- Coffee to milk
- 1:0.5
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Strong coffee120 ml40%
- Condensed milk30 ml10%
- Milk30 ml10%
- Ice120 ml40%
- Volume
- 300ml
- Caffeine
- 48mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Strong sock-brewed coffee sweetened with condensed milk and finished with evaporated milk over ice; black over ice is oliang.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 300 ml thai iced 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 120 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 |
|---|---|---|
| oliang | Thailand | Black iced version; Wikidata records Thailand as origin. |
| cà phê sữa đá | Vietnam | Vietnamese cousin. |
History
Popular accountWikidata records Thailand as origin of oliang and classes it as iced coffee. The grain-and-sesame coffee blends reflect Chinese-Thai street-vendor traditions (popular account).
Thailand.
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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