Bye Bye Starbucks! Welcome Home $$!

Now both my brother and i are coffee lovers. While i can survive on simple black coffee, he on the other hand, has a more savvy taste bud which cost more. He loves mocha and espresso. Ever since he came back from Australia after his graduation, we have been spending a lot of money buying expensive coffees from Starbucks. Each trip will cost us approximately Rm50 and it is quite some money if we visit Starbucks 3 times a week.

So this year, i decided to buy him and espresso machine from Nespresso for this birthday. I have to carry the machine and buy all the capsules all the way from Beirut and hand carry them all the way back just for him. And because there is not a single outlet in Malaysia, i have to pile up the capsules for him in this case.

Today after dinner, we decided to try making our very own cup of mocha. So in the afternoon we went shopping for milk and chocolate syrup.

To make the whole own mocha making experience better, i even went to Starbucks and bought us some coffee mugs and espresso cups.

So step one is to fill water into the machine and put in a capsule. The one which he loves is named "Appreggo" and it is at a 9 rank bitterness level out of 10. Each capsule will be good for 3 shots.

Watching the coffee dripping down from the machine, we all got excited. Once the cup is filled with 1/3 of coffee, we then added in chocolate syrup at our own desired taste then filled with milk until it is half cup full.

And this is how the capsule looked like when we removed it. Filled with holes! Michelle, my brother's gf was so interested throughout the whole process that she decided to post for me with the empty capsule.

Look at the happy face of my brother with his very own mocha. With the machine, each mocha will just cost us Rm4 max and we can save up Rm10 from Starbucks per cup. I see my money coming back! Whao! For once, i made a right purchase! Haha