Do you know what is "White Coffee"?

In Malaysia, white coffee started in the town of Ipoh, as early as in the years of 1970's. Before that, the labour worker are imported from China to work in Ipoh where the mining of Tin are extract., control by the British during the British Colonize time. The China mining worker drink coffee as medicine and as a "herbal tea" because coffee can be found in the jungle of Ipoh. They boil the coffee with pork and some other herbal as "herbal tea". The taste was bitter.

 Picture shown the early 60-70's mining worker in Ipoh, Malaysia.

The China mining worker did not know that the British are also drinking coffee as a beverage. One day when the Chinese worker preparing the "herbal tea', one of the British boss smell the aroma of the coffee and ask the worker who drink "coffee", why he was not invited? But non of the mining worker can answer this.

The British boss follow the aroma of the coffee and found the place where the worker cooking their "herbal tea", and ask them why he was not invited. The worker ask the boss: "Are you sick boss?"

"I am not sick!" answer the boss.
"If you not sick why are you drink our herbal tea?" asked the worker.
"Hahaha.... I see... This is call coffee and we drink it as a beverage, not a herbal tea!"
Then the British boss start to teach the Chinese worker how to prepare a cup of coffee with sugar and milk. The worker start calling this mixture of coffee, milk and sugar as: White Coffee.

After several years most of the mining are closed down in Ipoh and a lot of the worker are jobless, and these Chinese worker decided to stay in Malasyia (Formally Malaya) and starting to sell this "White Coffee" with a small stall beside the street with bread, during that time not much people are educated and so to be easy to remember they just wrote "White Coffee"- (with milk) and "Black coffee"- (without milk). This is where the name of "White Coffee" are born and become well known among all Malaysian even after so many years.