World-class coffee master Lim Dong-Won: to make coffee is to be creative

Lim Dong-Won, Virgo, founded GABEE in 2004. Italian professional cafe also won the championship of the first Taiwan Coffee Masters Competition in the same year and published GABEE. The perfect encounter between Latte Art coffee and milk. In 2006, he won the championship of the third Taiwan Coffee Masters Competition and published GABEE. Champion Creative Coffee "; in 2007, he became the first Taiwanese player to participate in the World Coffee Masters Competition, and served as a coach and judge many times. At the same time, he also served as a lecturer in the Catering Department of Yuanpei University of Science and Technology, the Food and Beverage Department of Mackay School of Management, the Chinese Vocational training Council, academic and Cultural Innovation, and Kaohsiung Catering College.

Sweet potatoes "marry" coffee

Lim Dong-Won has been in the coffee industry for 15 years, and now he is a famous coffee expert in Taiwan. Along the way, there is bitterness, glory, and more importantly, he is infatuated with coffee.

He has always believed that making coffee is about creativity. That's why he named his coffee shop "GABEE." The name is chosen because the pronunciation of coffee in Taiwanese is similar to that of "GABEE", while the dot behind it is "shop", which together means a coffee shop. 'The name is simple, clear, cordial and natural,'he said.

Not only that, his coffee is also full of creativity. His famous work, "you do not have a potato", won the championship in the first Taiwan Coffee Masters Competition held in 2004. Why did you choose sweet potato as material? Lim Dong-Won told the reporter with a smile: "Taiwanese like to compare themselves with sweet potatoes, and the topography of Taiwan is very much like sweet potatoes." Combine sweet potatoes with coffee that everyone is familiar with to show ideas that no one has ever thought of. Its taste must be very special. He said that in order to give drinkers a deep affection for coffee, he tried to incorporate the aroma of sweet potato (sweet potato) into the coffee and give it an interesting name. His idea made many customers quietly fall in love with the taste of coffee.

The goose swims on the coffee

Lim Dong-Won has made good achievements in creative coffee. His coffee drawing skills are even more popular in Taiwan.

Lim Dong-Won 's own coffee flower has more than 40 different patterns. In addition to the basic leaves and heart-shaped patterns on the market, butterflies, swans, conch, jellyfish and so on have become his flower-pulling materials. Unlike the common flower-pulling practice of pouring the milk foam into the coffee and then drawing patterns on the milk foam with auxiliary equipment, Lim Dong-Won prefers to pour the milk foam while accurately controlling the coffee cup with his left hand and shaking the milk foam with his right hand, which makes it more difficult to complete the pattern.

Lim Dong-Won says that to make a good fancy cup of coffee, you must rationally analyze the ratio of coffee to milk and carefully observe the effect and taste of different proportions. He more frankly said that from a variety of different patterns of flower drawing skills, coffee is more like an aesthetics, here, you can have a spiritual dialogue with it.

Not only that, Lim Dong-Won also published the book GABEE. Perfect encounter between Latte Art Coffee and Milk "," GABEE. Champion Creative Coffee two books teach you how to form wonderful patterns in the process of pouring milk. At the same time, he also reminded enthusiasts to pay attention to important details such as gestures, angle, strength and speed.

To Taiwan GABEE. Not just for coffee.

If you ask Lim Dong-Won, why do you want to open a coffee shop? He will answer you: "just because I like the atmosphere of interaction in the coffee shop." And he has always stressed that to run a coffee shop, in addition to interaction, what is more necessary is coffee culture.

In Lim Dong-Won 's eyes, the understanding of coffee culture is very simple, that is, it has its own culture and materials and its own imagination, rather than simply imitating the western coffee culture. "Coffee shop is not only a place where you can drink coffee, but also a platform to exchange coffee with each other. Here, you can sign up for classes, learn to brew coffee and open a shop. I can also explain to you different coffee concepts and important techniques for cultivating coffee talents. " Lim Dong-Won said that in their coffee shop, customers can also buy a lot of surrounding products, including T-shirts, cups and handmade soap made from coffee grounds.

Lim Dong-Won said that coffee culture needs to be accumulated and integrated into life. Because of this, he has always maintained the mentality of self-learning and never let himself stop. He said that if he chose again, he would still walk on the road of coffee without hesitation.