Day 8: Big Cups of Coffee

From time to time, we all experience the need for a rather hefty amount of coffee. Be it early morning, late in the afternoon, or some time at night, big cups of coffee are the cornerstone of modern society, simply because there is more in a big cup of coffee than in a small cup of coffee. However, few places will provide big cups of coffee, especially in Korea. Perhaps a rather popular trend in Korea is to serve, or buy, a small coffee 'shot', not as in an espresso shot, but as in a small paper cup, with at most two gulps, of just regular coffee. There are, of course, variations on this: milk coffee, sugar coffee, cream coffee, hot chocolate, and green tea. Yet all of them are in essence the same size and roughly the same price: 150 to 300 won (around a quarter). I guess some people just crave a small coffee shot, but I think that's just crazy (though I've been known to drink my fare share of these from the machines at school). Rather, big cups of coffee, as pictures above, are more useful and totally cooler. This particular cup of coffee comes from this very famous chocolate cafe in Hongdae, a rather arts and 'indie' district filled with amazing cafes that serve many different things. This one specializes in French chocolate cakes and hot chocolate, and luckily, large cups of coffee.