Coffee Lane

A new coffee place which I tried out last weekend. Place is called Coffee Lane. It is along King Street in town.What caught my attention here was the different tools used to make the coffee drink. One of it would be the Syphon Brewing Coffee. Just imagine your in a science class now.
What looks like to be is a bunsen burner, a round glass flask, and a standing thong thing. It is all about heat and pressure.

Syphon Coffee

1. In the round glass flask, water is filled and placed under a bunsen fire. Before it starts boiling, another long glass flask, with a long glass stem, containing the ground coffee beans is being placed into the round glass flask.2. The fire starts and slowly you see the water boiling, then suddenly (some sort of pressure) the water is being pushed up through the glass stem of the long glass.

3. The water is then mixed together with the ground coffee beans when the person gives a stir. Then the fire is switched off.

4. Next thing you know you have your brewed coffee coming down back to the round glass flask. Pretty cool actually.

But if you have no idea what I am trying to say here, you can read another blog about this Syphon Coffee which illustrates more clearly.

Link: What2See online- Coffee Lane

The Syphon Coffee, is served black and it is up to you if you want sugar and milk in it.

Ice Cream Coffee

Now this is my favourite. In a glass filled with vanilla ice-cream, a drip coffee method using paper filter is placed on top of the cup. Of course there is ground coffee beans inside already. Hot water is then poured and slowly the water and ground coffee mixture drips down to the cup containing the ice cream. It takes less than 3 minutes to have the cup all filled up with the coffee mixture. Then you give it a stir, get the coffee and ice cream mixed up. It is sooooooo good. It is not so sweet (just nice) and has a nice slight bitter taste to it. Lovely. Two thumbs up for this.

Besides coffee, this place also serves food such as sandwiches, salad, noodles, cakes, cookies and some other light snacks. The day I came, they ran out of cakes. Owner said that they had no time to make their cakes (homemade), so since I just came from lunch, we ordered 2 cookies and Ti Nya Kuih.

Cookie flavour was Almond and Chocolate chip with nuts.

The Ti Nya Kuih having a pandan flavour was good. It was smooth and had a spongy texture to it. This was also homemade by the owners mother-in-law.

While chilling out here, I gave a peek at the other tables who had ordered food. The triple decker sandwich which two tables had ordered looked really good. The same goes to the salad they had. Guess in my next visit here I shall order it together with my fav coffee ice cream.

Coffee Lane
10-B King Street
Georgetown
10200 Penang

Tel : 04 2610625

Business Hours : 11 am - 8 pm (Closed on Thursday)