2008/07/12 Food and Drink

Home made Nescafé Frappe

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Looking for blog posts about Nescafe, here’s an interesting view on Nescafé: Instant Coffee, anyone? (on a now closed blog) is a post by Chrissy, who apparently got hooked [...]

2008/01/24 Food and Drink

Nescafé or Senseo? Or both?

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Nestlé, home to Nescafé, has it its Nespresso and Dolce Gusto single serve coffee machines, Douwe Egberts has teamed up with Philips to create Senseo. So far I [...]

2007/12/21 Food and Drink

Nescafe Christmas Pudding

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Some 8 years ago I had the pleasure of living in the UK while studying for my MSc. One of the most typical English Christmas foods is the Christmas pudding. A strange dish, but at the same time very delicious. I loved it. [...]

2007/12/10 Food and Drink

Nescafe Dolce Gusto revisited

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Remember how I lamented the lack of personal comments on www.coffeemachine.org.uk? Well, at Geekanoids there is refreshing and very different review of this sci-fi looking gadget, which reads much better and brings a smile to my face and really makes me want to run to my nearest local store to buy this fantastic machine [...]

2007/12/03 Food and Drink

How to pick the right coffee machine

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I have previously ravaged about wanting a Nescafe Dolce Gusto coffee machine and written about the Nescafe advertising buzz using the French blog community Blogbang. This morning I found a so-called “review” of this machine at coffeemachine.org.uk. Well, it reads almost as it was cut and pasted from a sales brochure… [...]

2007/11/28 Food and Drink

If you ever run out of Nescafe...in Norway

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Recently, Friele, Norway’s leading coffee roaster, with a market share of about 32 % decided to launch their own instant. Not bad, and with a very distinct taste. [...]

2007/10/10 Food and Drink

I hope they still have this next time around...

starbucksgreentea

Mmmmh…how can I describe this delicious drink? Heaven? Paradise? The sweetest thing on earth? The latter is really true…this stuff is overwhelmingly sweet. It’s green tea frappe. Well, [...]

2007/10/08 Food and Drink

My favourite Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf

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This is my favourite Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Jakarta, located at Taman Anggrek mall, which also happens to be my favourite mall in Jakarta.  It is [...]

2007/10/04 Food and Drink

No better way to fly?

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Off I go to Indonesia, six months since I was there last time. This is the third time I’m flying Lufthansa, so I guess their advertising motto has worked on me and I now fully agree that there is no better way to fly? … Honestly, I can think of many better ways to fly, name Singapore Airlines for one, but in terms of price/value I find that Lufthansa comes pretty close to being true to their motto after all. [...]

2007/09/18 Food and Drink

Nescafe Chocolate Cup Cakes

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I found this recipe on an Indonesian website. Looks very tasty. My Indonesian is a bit rusty these days, but I think I managed to translate it more [...]