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Every coffee bean has gone through a process beyond your imagination before it appears to you, and what is more important than coffee is my respect for coffee and the people who drink it.

Binbin barista

One of the managers of Double i coffee

Fuzhou District Champion of 2015 World Barista Competition

She won a barista championship in two months.

Four years ago, after graduating as a hotel management major in 1992, Binbin worked in a western restaurant in a star hotel and came into contact with coffee. At that time, Binbin did not know what a good cup of coffee was, nor did he understand why so many people loved such a black, bitter, and even bad thing. It turned out later that the coffee tasted bad because the coffee machine in the hotel was not washed all the year round and the coffee beans were of poor quality. ]

Driven by curiosity, Binbin began to search the Internet for everything about coffee and began self-study. Unexpectedly, he became infatuated with coffee and resigned from the hotel to work in a coffee shop. At that time, she didn't know where the courage and courage came from. "she just felt as if she should learn coffee."

After less than a year of learning coffee, Binbin won the championship of the 2015 World baristas Competition in Fuzhou, beating many experienced baristas who have been in the industry for many years.

I asked Binbin, do you think you won the championship because of talent or your own efforts?

Binbin said that the reason why she was able to win the championship may be due to her own seriousness and high demand for detail.

In fact, Binbin decided to participate in the competition only two months before the competition, and then began a very strict pre-competition training. Each action has been repeated countless times, even if the game is very nervous, but the physical memory is still there, can still be done well.

She bought a Mercedes-Benz by selling Steamed Rice with Red-Cooked Pork.

Because of the blockbuster of the coffee contest, Binbin became famous in the coffee circle. When everyone thought she would continue to make coffee in the cafe, she decided to go to Los Angeles to study business.

Binbin said that in order to continue to study business, she saved tuition fees for a long time. Coffee is a lifetime thing, but the sooner you learn and learn, the better. The coffee culture in the United States has a long history, so she wants to go out and experience it as soon as possible.

Binbin's study and life in the United States made Binbin feel extremely full. as long as she was free, she would "sweep" cafes in Los Angeles.

Binbin is a girl who is addicted to collecting. Every time she meets a cafe she likes, Binbin collects cups from the cafe. She will collect both paper cups and porcelain cups. A little adds up, and now she has collected more than a hundred cups from different cafes.

Binbin said that most cafes in the United States give people a very casual and comfortable feeling, whether it is the decoration of the store or the atmosphere. Unlike in China, coffee is a very common drink for them, just like Coke Sprite. This has always been Binbin's attitude towards coffee: it's just a drink, and I happen to like it very much.

At a party, Binbin cooked a sumptuous table of food and invited foreign friends to eat. As a result, they liked it very much, and someone suggested that Binbin, if you are such a good cook, why not make takeout, share it with more people, and earn some pocket money.

Los Angeles food prices are very expensive, Chinese food is in short supply, a domestic ordinary Saute Spicy Chicken can sell for 60 yuan, nearly 400 yuan.

So Binbin tried to be Steamed Rice with Red-Cooked Pork, which he was good at, and he was very popular. A few months later, she used the money she earned to buy herself a Mercedes-Benz.

She sold her Mercedes-Benz and moved a cafe from Los Angeles to Fuzhou.

Maybe every barista has a dream of opening a coffee shop.

Binbin is no exception. Long before he went abroad, Binbin came up with the idea of opening a coffee shop. By chance, her friend found a good facade on Daming Road in Fuzhou, and the two girls hit it off and settled. Name it Double i coffee.

When he was in Los Angeles, Binbin liked beans from Verve, a well-known American coffee brand. In Binbin's view, their coffee beans are rich in aroma, more flavor and, more importantly, high quality. Coffee beans tend to come from the number one coffee farms around the world and are sold exclusively around the world, such as Elida Manor in Panama.

Binbin felt that such a good coffee needed to be enjoyed by more coffee lovers in China, so he went to the Verve headquarters to discuss cooperation, and finally moved the other party with his sincerity and strength, and won the only cooperative agency of the Verve coffee brand in China.

In addition, Binbin specially inspected the stores of Verve and other coffee brands and packed up and bought all the cups, utensils and other things she liked. In order to open her ideal coffee shop in Fuzhou, she did not hesitate to sell her hard-earned Mercedes-Benz.

So, any coffee cup you see in Double i coffee, there is no doubt that these are coffee cups carefully selected and transported back by Binbin from various cafes in Los Angeles, many of which are limited editions.

Double i coffee is positioned as a boutique coffee sharing experience hall, and the whole store is dominated by Tiffany blue, showing a fresh and clean atmosphere. Main boutique coffee, as well as espresso and handmade cakes.

Perhaps the average cafe has only a few boutique coffee choices, but there are more than a dozen types of coffee on the Double i coffee menu. Binbin said that because the United States sends 2-3 batches of newly baked beans to the store every month, the quality and freshness of the beans can be guaranteed.

Binbin said frankly that opening a cafe is a very poor and bitter thing. But she has long been psychologically prepared that the coffee shop takes a lot of time and experience to cultivate, both the guests and the coffee shop itself.

Compared with the mainstream market, boutique coffee is still a relatively niche culture, and the general public will not know the difference between lattes and Yega cigars.

She believes more in her tongue.

In terms of taste, Binbin has a different view from others, and he also has his own standard for judging the taste of coffee. She doesn't know the flavor of this bean just because someone tells her what it is.

Perceiving the flavor of a coffee bean, Binbin believes his tongue more. Is it the smell of wheat straw? Or berries? Yes is yes, no is no.

Binbin said, because no one in the world has the same sense of taste as you.

Everyone has always had different eating habits and different taste bases. It may also be the memory of strawberries, some people may eat strawberries a little sweeter, some people will eat sour, so that everyone's taste buds to have a location for the memory of strawberries.

Every guest who comes to the store, Binbin will recommend coffee according to the guests' preferences. Binbin said that drinking coffee is a very personal thing, and everyone has their own preferences and tastes. I will recommend coffee according to the guests' preferences to meet the needs of the guests. If the guests are confused or want to try new tastes, I will also recommend them patiently and carefully.

Binbin said: "the purpose of opening this cafe is very simple. I hope more and more people can learn about fine coffee and like it." I have confidence in Double i coffee because it is really no worse than others. "