Al-Fishawi, Al-Balad, Jeddah "How to make Arabic Coffee"

We report gallantry from Cafe de Flore, but since this gallantry is Saudi, we'll report from Fishawi Cafe, in the old part of Jeddah.

Here are notes from Bayouni Arabic Coffee with Cardamom instructions:

8 tablespoons coffee for one liter;  that is about one table spoon for .15 millilitres, or half this .33 bottle of Evian:

2 tablespoons for the whole of this small bottle of Evian

The coffee should be added while the water in the stainless steel tea pot is boiling, and stirred in. 

(if you put saffron in the boiling water before the coffee, you can boil the saffron two minutes before boiling the coffee for two minutes--see the Bayouni note at the end)

Let it boil on low heat for ONLY TWO MINUTES in this steel tea pot:

Now the coffee is ready.  I've seen them put the saffron in with the coffee at boiling, but Bayouni's instructions say, "It is better to put the saffron in the boiling water for two minutes BEFORE putting in the coffee.  In this way you will economise on saffron and make an excellent coffee."

Finally, pour the coffee from the stainless steel teapot into a nice Saudi curved coffee pot, and, if you like, put a piece of dried palm leaf in the spout to further filter.  Here's my Saudi curved coffee pot that I bought back in 2005 from "Ya Balaish" in Faisaliyya quarter in Jeddah.

Pour the coffee into little cups.  This is a Turkish coffee cup, but I don't have my little Jordanian-Saudi cups: