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Yesterday, to reward myself for half an hour of cultural misguidance related to purchase of contact lens solution, I headed to Java Caffé. Serving coffee to “take away” (since every one here learns English from a Britt) is Budapest’s new thing, and Starbucks look-alikes are opening everywhere. Java Caffé is a chain but cool despite the whole confusion with the word café in the title. I especially loved the fact that even my failure to know the word for “medium” in Hungarian didn’t stop the workers of the shop from sensing my desperate need for a larger than small morning coffee and completing my meekly mumbled order without extra questioning.