Syphon Brew Coffee - 咖啡方

As I begun reading about this method of brewing coffee, a basic english term hit me, is it syphon or siphon ? The thesaurus seems to like siphon as to syphon. Anyway, situated at King Street, we visited the 'Syphon Brew Coffee' shop.

The front facade of Syphon Brew Coffee.

As we were settling in, I found interest in the coffee making machine. This type of brewing is called Siphon Coffee. And so ...


this apparatus is called, siphon brewing machine.

This place serves other variety of food, but the main 'dish' here is the coffee.


Various menu to you choose the snacks available.


Banana cake, to be shared ...


A slice is enough, we were here for the coffee but not the cake.


Reminds me of some scientific equipments that I have played during my secondary school. Looks like a beaker, or as I used to know it with 'bikar' in Malay.


Beaker with H20 and Bunsen burner :-) , also a thermometer, science lab.


That's the chemical aka Coffee Beans.


Coffee beans are weighed and fine grinded using the white coloured grinder. This is done while waiting for the water to boil.


The owner preparing coffee at the counter.


The coffee powder is poured into the siphon brewing machine.


As the water is heated up, steam or water vapour builds and forces the boiling water out of the lower container to the upper vessel and brews the coffee


Boiling water brewing the coffee

The 'bunsen burner' is switched off and steam cools down creating a partial vacuum and sucks the brewed coffee down giving a fresh brewed coffee.


The side dishes of sandwiches.


And french fries ...

Overall, the coffee was just okay, it has the simplicity, light and the body. However, I guess this depends very much on the coffee beans used, the aroma and the taste wasn't that much impressive. It is quite pricey too. The beans used with 'Javanese' beans.

(Best of 5 stars)
Food quality: 2.8 stars ( Food quality just okay )
Service: 3.0 stars ( Service is good, probably because no one was around )
Food portion: 3.0 stars ( Okay but it wasn't about food portion, more of coffee )
Value: 2.80 stars ( Rather expensive. )