Drinking "cold coffee, " a milky-sweet coffee drink popular in India, Mohita acknowledges that the beverage costs more than a farmer like Shailendra would earn on an average day.

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Many of the teenagers sipping sweet iced coffee are students from the local outpost of the University of California.

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The weather in Thailand also lends itself to cold, sweet, creamy coffee.

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For weeks beforehand, men converged every evening to sip sweet tea or coffee laced with cardamom and discuss rival plans to relocate the district library or extend the municipal pier.

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Lying in your tent, listening to the rustles and chirps of the forest, you can almost hear an old bull elephants whishing his way between the moss-covered trunks and the woodcutters rising early for a campfire breakfast of sweet potatoes and coffee.

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Once you have shopped within a whisker of your luggage allowance, grab a Lebanese mezze lunch outdoors at Cafe Layali Zaman on the Corniche (look for the "Baguette" sign), where the hummus is perfectly garlicky, the baba ganoush a smoky, aubergine dream and you might choose to accompany your Arabic coffee with a sweet-scented shisha water-pipe.

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Grapefruit curd with mascarpone and a crumble of pistachio and green tea demonstrated the more elegant notes of bitterness, and sunchoke cream with chestnut, black-trumpet mushrooms, and coffee expounded on the sweet-savory spectrum of nuttiness.

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The coffee flows freely, accompanied by halwa, a traditional sweet which rekindles childhood memories of Mombasa.

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