Arabs love to drink coffee, which is called Turkish coffee or Arabic coffee, the cup is small, the taste is strong, and the color is close to black. Usually, after a meal or when entertaining guests, they will have a drink, and going to a café when they are fine is also a big part of their lives.
This coffee is popular in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Europe. Unlike other coffees, Turkish coffee is brewed in a special way. It is generally made by using a small gourd-shaped iron coffee pot, adding water to the stove, and then gently stirring with ground coffee. Usually experienced people will skim out a layer of foam floating on it and divide it into different cups to increase the rich flavor.
After cooking, they will be placed in small cups and served on a tray. There are three general flavors of coffee: sugar-free, oligosaccharide, and polysaccharide. In Arabic, all three flavors have special words: sugar-free is called "Seda", less sugar is called "Wassett", and polysaccharide is called "Ziyad". Before cooking they will ask you which flavor you want.
For people who are not used to this kind of coffee, they may not be able to sleep all night after drinking it. Another feature of this coffee is that people who like it feel fragrant, and people who don't like it feel extremely bitter. Usually when you visit a friend's house, as soon as you sit down, the host will ask you "coffee or tea", if you want coffee, he will immediately arrange for the hostess to boil it.
In Palestine, drinking coffee is more of an expression of attitude. When visiting Palestinians, it is best to drink all the coffee served by the host, because if you don't drink it, they will think that you have an opinion on them, or that you are here to provoke trouble.
Palestine is a family society, when there is a conflict between the families, one side goes to the other side's home to reconcile, after pouring coffee, the coming party will not drink at first, until the two sides agree, they will drink it all.
Usually, when the man goes to the woman's house to propose to him, he will not immediately drink the coffee poured by the woman's family, until the woman's father says "agree to marry his daughter to you", the man's family will drink the coffee happily. If the woman's family refuses, the man will not drink coffee, but will go away with his sleeves.
In addition, coffee has a suggestive effect. When you go to an Arab's house for dinner, you will have a "welcome coffee" before the meal, and then they will give you everything they want: eat a big meal, eat fruit, and chat with you over tea. If the time is almost up, the host will ask "do you want to drink coffee", this cup of coffee is called "delivery coffee", after drinking coffee, you have to say goodbye. If you really don't know each other and continue to stay there, the owner will remind you to leave in a yawn, stretching and other postures.
Another feature of Saudi Arabian coffee is that there is a cup of water with the coffee, but no matter how many guests will only serve a cup of water.
This cup of water is usually not drunk by anyone, just a decoration. The older person introduced the reason that this is a tradition for many years, if the guest drinks it before drinking coffee, it proves that the guest is hungry, and should prepare a meal for him immediately, if you don't drink it, you don't use it. But there are other theories, such as because Turkish coffee is very strong and has coffee grounds at the bottom, this cup of water can be used to gargle.
With the development of the times, young people are more and more inclined to drink coffees such as cappuccino and mocha, and they are less likely to patronize traditional small cafes, but to modern cafes with music, Western food, and sometimes fashionable men and women.