Having now sampled local coffee across Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Laos I can now safely say they all suck. As a born-and-bred Melbournian I have high coffee standards and wasn't expecting Asian coffee to meet them, but it is uniformly woeful. In fact my uncle Jack, a coffee drinker if ever I've met one, resorted to tea when travelling in Cambodia and Laos a few years ago.
But i am of tougher stuff - I have kept drinking the coffee - and kept complaining - through muddy, thick, foul-tasting cup after cup. Actually I limit myself pretty much to one cup a day - any more and I would expect internal corrosion.
In order from best to worst, I rank South-East Asian coffee as follows:
1. Thailand
2. Laos
3. Cambodia
4. Malaysia
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