Black Canyon Thai Iced Coffee Copycat Recipe
Dark coffee, condensed milk stirred in hot, evaporated milk poured over ice. Five minutes and about thirty pence a glass.
Cooking Black Canyon Coffee at home, and what its menu costs
Thai iced coffee done properly - condensed milk and all.
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The Black Canyon Coffee recipes on this site
Not every menu item has a recipe here, and that is deliberate - We write a page when there is something genuinely worth saying about how to make the thing.
What Black Canyon Coffee food actually tastes of
Condensed milk and evaporated milk, both, and they do different jobs. Condensed milk is the sweetener and goes in first, stirred into the hot coffee so it dissolves completely. Evaporated milk is poured over the ice at the end - it gives the layered look, adds body without more sugar, and takes the edge off what would otherwise be a cloying drink.
Brew it far stronger than you think. Double strength at minimum. A full glass of ice is 200 ml of water arriving in the drink, and a normal-strength brew is thin and sour by the halfway point.
Stir the condensed milk into hot coffee, not cold. It will not dissolve into a cold liquid and sits at the bottom of the glass in a lump.
A full glass of ice, not a half-full one. Counterintuitive and correct: a full glass melts more slowly because the greater mass keeps the whole volume colder.
About Black Canyon Coffee
Black Canyon is a Thai coffee-and-restaurant chain founded in Chiang Mai in 1993, and it occupies a position that does not really exist in Britain or America: a full-menu restaurant where the coffee is the headline rather than an afterthought. You can eat a green curry and drink a properly made iced coffee in the same sitting, which is normal in Thailand and unusual almost everywhere else.
Its most copyable item is oliang-style Thai iced coffee: brewed very strong and dark, sweetened heavily with condensed milk, and poured over a full glass of ice with evaporated milk floated on top. It is one of the cheapest and most satisfying home drinks on this entire site - about thirty pence a glass - and it needs no equipment beyond something that brews strong coffee.
Traditionally the coffee is a dark blend that includes roasted grains and seeds alongside the beans, which gives it a distinctive slightly smoky, nutty character. A very dark espresso roast is the closest widely available substitute and is what most home versions use.
What Black Canyon Coffee charges, from the menu we hold
82 priced options across 34 menu sections, as last recorded in Thailand. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between ₱210 and ₱365. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | ₱120 | |
| Middle of the menu | ₱309 | |
| Dearest priced item | ₱780 |
Black Canyon Coffee changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Black Canyon Coffee price history. The full list is on the Black Canyon Coffee menu page, and the 1 item we have rebuilt at home is listed here.
What Black Canyon Coffee sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iced Espresso | 2 | - |
| Salmon Steak | 2 | - |
| Fried Spring Rolls | 2 | - |
| Spaghetti Carbonara | 2 | - |
| Black Canyon Iced Coffee | 2 | - |
| Chocolate Glacier Frappe | 2 | - |
| Mocha Glacier Frappe | 2 | - |
| Fish & Chips | 2 | - |
| Iced Cappuccino | 2 | - |
| Chicken Green Curry | 2 | - |
| Kway Teow Ladna with Chicken | 1 | - |
| Spicy Pan Fried Spaghetti with Bacon | 1 | - |
Build your Black Canyon Coffee order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side.
Other coffee chains
What else people compare Black Canyon Coffee against, and what we hold for each.
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Pret A Manger
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Coffee World
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