This is a Singaporean cafe, but it is apparently inspired by Korean culture. They have a menu for "Dirty Coffee", which seems to refer to the Chinese concept of pouring hot espresso shots over cold milk. The Brown Rice Tea Dirty Coffee comprises cold brown rice-infused dairy milk, topped with a shot of hot espresso and salted milk foam. The brown rice tea is also known as genmai tea or genmaicha in Japanese, so the tea used would be green tea or sencha, although this is presumably inspired by the Korean version of that, which is called hyeonmi-nokcha (현미녹차). The powder they sprinkle on top of the salted foam is genmaicha powder. And if I remember correctly, they make the genmaicha milk by soaking the genmaicha powder in the milk overnight. In the second photo below, you can clearly see the layer of coffee floating on top of the milk. Because of this formula, there is no iced or hot version, even though the drink is overall considered a cold or chilled one.
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