Mint Nanaimo Bar & Signature Iced (Lao) Coffee
Coffee break @ "Joma Bakery".
I was cracking my head over what "Nanaimo" means until I realised that "Joma Bakery" is Canadian owned.
Off Wikipedia, I found the following:
"The Nanaimo bar is a dessert item of Canadian origin. It is a bar dessert which requires no baking and is named after the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. It consists of a wafer crumb-based layer topped by a layer of custard flavoured butter icing which is covered with melted chocolate made from chocolate squares. Many varieties exist, consisting of different types of crumb, different flavours of icing (e.g., mint, peanut butter, coconut, mocha), and different types of chocolate"
So I guess this is a little piece of Canadian taste in Laos.
The Bakery had both the original and mint varieties but I prefer the mint version simply for the lovely taste of mint. Kinda reminded me of "After Eight"...mint and chocolate - the combo never goes wrong.
Iced Lao Coffee (Cafe nom yen) is sweet and milky. "Espresso with sweet milk and regular milk on ice", proclaimed the menu. Traditionally, Lao coffee is brewed through a sock-like filter, as in Singapore, but then heavily mixed with sweetened condensed milk and cooled with ice for the Iced version. In the Joma's version, no sock filter was used and they added fresh milk....which I think kinda diluted the taste of the coffee.
Mint Nanaimo Bar & Signature Iced (Lao) Coffee
Coffee break @ "Joma Bakery".
I was cracking my head over what "Nanaimo" means until I realised that "Joma Bakery" is Canadian owned.
Off Wikipedia, I found the following:
"The Nanaimo bar is a dessert item of Canadian origin. It is a bar dessert which requires no baking and is named after the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. It consists of a wafer crumb-based layer topped by a layer of custard flavoured butter icing which is covered with melted chocolate made from chocolate squares. Many varieties exist, consisting of different types of crumb, different flavours of icing (e.g., mint, peanut butter, coconut, mocha), and different types of chocolate"
So I guess this is a little piece of Canadian taste in Laos.
The Bakery had both the original and mint varieties but I prefer the mint version simply for the lovely taste of mint. Kinda reminded me of "After Eight"...mint and chocolate - the combo never goes wrong.
Iced Lao Coffee (Cafe nom yen) is sweet and milky. "Espresso with sweet milk and regular milk on ice", proclaimed the menu. Traditionally, Lao coffee is brewed through a sock-like filter, as in Singapore, but then heavily mixed with sweetened condensed milk and cooled with ice for the Iced version. In the Joma's version, no sock filter was used and they added fresh milk....which I think kinda diluted the taste of the coffee.