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Q: Why is it so hard to find instant coffee without sugar and creamer?
I'm on a mission to find instant coffee powder that's not nestle and that doesn't have milk powder and sugar mixed in it already. Is it possible in China?!
THANK YOU!!! I thought I was the only one! always nestle "coffee mate" or that other brand G-7.
The few times I do find the black coffee, I buy LOTS, as I never know when will be the next time I will find it!
I've found several normal supermarkets and a few imported food shops that have G7 coffee (from Vietnam) in sachets. The box looks like this:
OwainLW:
I've had that stuff before. If it's the satchets you're talking about they're equally as sweet and powdery as those Nestle ones, though I haven't tried the beans.
Samsara:
Really? The sachets I have now have no creamer (completely black) and no discernible sugar.
Yes, it's very common. You could try a native Chinese brand. I recommend Yunnan coffee. It's actually not bad at all.
The reason is because the Chinese prefer the taste of sweetened coffee to the bitter taste of black coffee. My Chinese gf asked me to bring her some instant coffee back from the US....but was sure to specify that she wanted it to be sweet, and not bitter. Brought her back a couple tins of Maxwell House flavored instant coffee (at first I thought it was Cafe Vienna....guess they got bought out?). I brought back my own coffee as well, 3 bags of various ground coffee. Can't stand the 3-in-1's they sell here 
you are in beijing and can't find what i found in a very small city? maxwell house in the jar. you must just want the packets. i swear to christ you big city expats are spoiled rotten. leave your castle go to metro, go to carrefour, go to rt mart, go to walmart, go to jusco. i have seen it all over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me too, Crimo, I BUY IT ALL THE TIME
crimochina:
multiple sections of the store. the coffee tea aisle and the imported products aisle
