Fresh coffee beans, usually Brazilian finely ground or powdered daily and one heaped teaspoon is added to each demitasse of cold water.
Sugar goes in too at this stage, before heating the coffee on the stove. So you need to know whether you order your coffee glykos (sweet) metrios (medium sweet) or sketos (unsweetened).
The mbrikia are heated on the stove and when the sugar has dissolved, the cof fee is allowed to come to the boil, forming a creamy froth Kaimaki on top.
As the froth turns in from the sides and the coffee begins to rise in the pot, it is removed from the heat and a little is poured into each cup to distribute the froth.
Cyprus coffee is strong and should always be served with a glass of cold water.
It contains no spices, such as the cardamon pod you might find in a cup of Arabic coffee, but sip with care, for at the bottom of every cup Iurks a little sediment - don't drink it!
So relax, nibble something delicious. perhaps a kalo prama - what's that - literally translated, it means 'good thing', arid, like so many flavours of Cyprus, that's just what it is.