Drinks
Learn the names of different drinks in Indonesian
Also see: Food, Popular Dishes and Eating out
If you stay in a house in Indonesia there's a rattle or a bang or a hoot from outside every half an hour as someone pushes their cart past. You may be confused as to exactly what is going past, but your host will always know that it is. Often it's food, but there's also the delicious cocount juice, which can be drunk straight from the coconut or served up in a delicous array of flavours.
Of course, there is also a huge range of fruit juices, many of them made fresh from the fruit as you wait there. It's also worth trying some Indonesia coffee - at first it seems more like eating than drinking, but it's easy to acquire the taste, and you won't want to go back to Nescafe when you have done. (I rely on a string of Indonesian friends coming and going to keep me stocked up on coffee now I no longer live in the country!)
Perhaps you'll want to sit in a little cafe and drink the coffee like the locals do - add tonnes of sugar to boiling hot coffee, then tip it onto the saucer and slurp it back. Don't forget to dip the accompanying biscuit into the coffee!
| Drink (noun) | Minuman |
| Drink (verb) | Minum |
| Thirsty | Haus |
| I am very thirsty | Aku haus sekali |
| I want to drink | Saya mau minum |
| I want a drink | Saya mau minuman |
| Get me a drink | Ambilkan saya minuman |
| Could you get me a drink? | Boleh ambil saya minuman? |
| Drinking water (lit. white water) | Air putih |
| Drinking water | Air minum |
| Hot tea | Teh panas |
| Coffee | Kopi |
| Coffee without sugar | Kopi Pahit |
| Juice | Jus |
| Mixed ice mixed fruit, coconut | Es campur |
| flavoured cocunut milk | Es teler |
| Coconut juice with ice | Es kelapa |
| Soda with syrup (Lit. happy soda) | Soda gembira |
| Syrup | Sirup |
| Beer | Bir |
| Wine (also the word for grapes) | Anggur – wine (also the word for grapes) |
| Spirit made from rice | Arak |
| Chopped fruit with ice | Es buah |