Dalgona Coffee
Dalgona Coffee is a coffee specialty that was developed in Macau , South China , and which began to spread rapidly from South Korea in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic as an internet phenomenon .
preparation
Roughly generalized, Dalgona Coffee is an upside-down cappuccino - the milk is at the bottom of the glass, the part containing coffee is at the top. The lower part of the drinking vessel is filled with milk. For the upper part, equal parts instant coffee , refined sugar and hot water are whisked with a hand mixer or a whisk until a stiff, loose mass results, which is then poured onto the milk. The latter can be hot or cold. It is important to use instant coffee, since the desired consistency cannot be achieved with normal coffee.
Coffee liqueur can optionally be added to the coffee-sugar mixture ( Friday afternoon dalgona ). Instead of refined sugar, brown sugar is also used. The drink can be flavored by adding cocoa, grated chocolate or cinnamon, for example. Further layers can also be added to the two-layer basic drink, which must, however, have a certain minimum density in order not to combine with the coffee-sugar mixture and can therefore be based on whipped milk products or protein, for example.
Origin and Etymology
The drink is based on the vertically inverted variant of Beaten Coffee (बीटन कॉफी, transcribed phenti hui , also called Indian cappuccino in Anglo-American countries) from India . With Beaten Coffee, the two layers are also mixed together. A variant with milk at the bottom of the drinking vessel had been available without significant reception since the early 2000s in a café in Macau, where it was discovered by South Korean actor Jung Il-Woo in January 2020 and featured on the South Korean TV show Pyunstorang . Jung gave the drink for his South Korean viewers the name Dalgona coffee as it it to the domestic biscuit reminded Dalgona (달고나). As a result, the drink was put on the menu in several South Korean cafes.
South Koreans are the largest coffee consumers in Asia. Since cafes had to close as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, making coffee within your own four walls became more important. After the TV show with Jung, the preparation of Dalgona Coffee became a trending topic on social media in South Korea, partly because of its ease of preparation. In particular , videos were created and shared on the social media platforms Facebook , Instagram , TikTok and YouTube , which deal with the preparation of Dalgona Coffee. The trend started on YouTube, where videos of the preparation quickly hit seven-digit hits, and spilled over to TikTok in early March. In April 2020, a South Korean video demonstrating the preparation of the drink had over 10,000,000 views on YouTube. Because of the parallelism to the Corona crisis, the drink was given the nickname "quarantine coffee".
The idea of whipping instant coffee did not just come up with Dalgona Coffee, Café frappé has been around since 1957. The unique selling point of Dalgona Coffee is the combination of the mixing ratio of coffee to sugar to water and serving as a topping on hot or cold milk.
reception
The British BBC ruled that Dalgona Coffee had "stormed the Internet". The US fashion magazine Glamor called the drink “the most popular quarantine drink on the Internet” and “absurdly photogenic”. The Microsoft -Internetportal MSN wrote, "so satisfying it is to make (a Dalgona Coffee), so satisfying was it to watch others in the preparation." The New York Post attributed the popularity of the drink, as well as other media, to the fact that people with a soft spot for coffee specialties stayed at home during the Corona crisis, but did not want to do without their luxury food and thus the easy-to-make but photogenic Dalgona Coffee discovered for themselves. The Indian Times of India found Dalgona Coffee “the perfect drink for the Instagram age”. Vice pointed out that the creators of the videos on social media platforms often made a reference to the quarantine enforced by the corona virus and said that they came to the production of Dalgona Coffee because of the boredom of domestic isolation. The magazine also linked to the trend in awareness of ASMR experiences. For Vice , Dalgona Coffe is the second biggest food trend of the Corona phase after the trend towards baking your own bread.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c BBC.co.uk: Dalgona coffee. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ BBC.co.uk: Dalgona coffee: does the internet's new favorite drink actually work? Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ^ Inquirer.net: How to make the South Korean trend Dalgona Coffee. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Glamour.com: Dalgona Coffee Recipe: How to Make the Internet's Favorite, Fluffiest Quarantine Drink. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c MSN.com: What is dalgona coffee & why is it on everyone's instagram now? Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b IndiaTimes.com: S Korea's Dalgona coffee is the new quarantine fad. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Vice.com: A Dive Into the Disputed History of 'Dalgona Coffee'. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ^ NYTimes.com: How to Make Whipped Coffee. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ ThePrint.in: Why S. Korea's Dalgona coffee trend shoulderstand remind India of its food-diplomacy potential. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b NYPost.com: How to make whipped Dalgona coffee, TikTok's latest viral trend. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ 자도르: 오조 오 억번 저어 만든 달고나 커피 on YouTube (Korean with international subtitles)
- ↑ Vice.com: People All Over the World Are Making Frothy 'Dalgona' Coffee, Thanks to Quarantine. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .