How is the Ethiopian coffee brand Tomoca? Where can you buy Tomoca coffee?

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TO.MO.CA. Coffee: Addis Ababa's No.1 Espresso Bar

TO.MO.CA. Coffee, the premier espresso bar in Ethiopia's capital, is a family-operated establishment that has been running since 1953. The owner foresaw the rapidly developing coffee culture industry, combined it with the finest local coffee beans from exceptional growing regions, and created a coffee trend that has become immensely popular among office workers and young people. The café's environment follows a Western style, serving freshly brewed espresso and packaged coffee beans. The shop has only a few high tables, with customers primarily standing while drinking their coffee.

I. TO.MO.CA. Coffee Beans/Powder

Product Name: TO.MO.CA. Coffee Beans/Powder

Origin: Ethiopia

Composition: Harar Coffee Beans (Harar coffee beans, roasted beans)

Roast Level: City Roast

Taste Profile: Slightly sweet with gentle fruit acidity, excellent sweetness with its characteristic mellow flavor. Its unique sweetness, acidity, and bitterness are extremely elegant.

Aroma: Rich fruity fragrance and grassy notes

Visual: Small bean particles with uneven coloration

II. Brewing Methods

For TO.MO.CA. coffee powder, it's important to note that this is not an instant coffee product. You can enjoy its rich flavor using coffee machines, moka pots, distillation pots, siphon pots, or filter paper. For those without professional equipment, you only need a small pot for boiling milk or water. After the water boils, add the coffee powder and simmer for 10-20 minutes (typically 1-2 scoops of coffee powder for 2 cups of water, using a coffee spoon or a regular small dining spoon). The brewed coffee needs to be filtered 2-3 times through a fine sieve or filter paper. After that, you can enjoy the coffee according to your taste preferences. For those not accustomed to drinking pure coffee, you can add milk, condensed milk, brown sugar, white sugar, or coffee creamer. Note that it's very bitter without sugar, which should be perfect for coffee enthusiasts.

III. Methods for Identifying Coffee Bean Freshness

Smell: Fresh coffee beans have a rich aroma when smelled; conversely, poor quality beans have an unpleasant odor.

Sight: Good coffee beans are complete in shape and plump; conversely, poor quality beans are incomplete and irregular in shape.

Touch: Fresh beans are crisp to the touch and release fragrance when they crack.

Color: Dark, blackish coffee beans produce bitter coffee; beans with yellowish tones produce coffee with acidic notes.

Ethiopia, known as the birthplace of coffee, possesses the history and traditional agricultural cultivation techniques worthy of being called coffee's origin. It's said that the English word "coffee" also originates from the Ethiopian place name "Kaffa." Legend has it that around 900 AD, a shepherd in Ethiopia's Kaffa region was herding sheep in the mountains when he discovered the flock competing to eat a type of red berry. After eating, the sheep became unusually lively and energetic. The shepherd thought his sheep had eaten something harmful and spent the night in anxiety. However, the next day, the flock was completely unharmed. This accidental discovery prompted the shepherd to collect these wild fruits and boil them to quench his thirst. He found the juice incredibly fragrant and felt unusually energized after drinking it. Thus, he began cultivating this plant, which developed into large-scale coffee cultivation. The name coffee evolved from "Kaffa," and later, coffee spread from Ethiopia to the entire world.

Ethiopian coffee should be pollution-free green organic coffee. Today, Ethiopia still uses traditional cultivation methods, with manual care for coffee trees. Fertilizers mainly consist of fallen leaves, dead grass, and animal manure, replacing the harmful pesticides and herbicides used on a large scale in other coffee-producing countries.

Ethiopia is now most famous for producing 'Mocha' coffee. In the West, "Mocha" refers not only to a coffee variety but also to methods of brewing coffee, coffee brewing equipment, and special preparation techniques. Mocha coffee beans are mostly dry-processed, but there are also so-called premium washed beans. Mocha coffee beans are renowned for their acidity, while also having slight sweetness, subtle wine-like notes, and lower caffeine content.

IV. TO.MO.CA. Coffee Notes

This coffee shop is very, very small, yet world-famous. It was once featured in Lonely Planet, and many coffee enthusiasts from around the world make special pilgrimages here to have a cup of coffee.

The TO.MO.CA. coffee shop is located in a very unassuming small building - the yellow building in the picture below. If you don't have someone familiar to guide you, you definitely won't find it. Even when you arrive, you might not believe it. However, if you take a taxi or ask for directions in Addis Ababa, everyone will know about it. Moreover, there are no branches worldwide - only this one exists. Because we visited on a weekend and possibly encountered a tour group, it was extremely busy. The entire left side was filled with people queuing to pay. You can see the tables on the right - there are only three such tables in the entire shop, with no chairs. Everyone stands while drinking, and they drink quickly, ha.

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