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Swimming Cat

Address: 15, Lebuh Queen,10200 Georgetown, Pulau Pinang.

Business hours: 10AM-7PM (Monday and Tuesday off)

She said, come on!

It's going to be a little different, and it's still the same as before.

On a rainy afternoon over the weekend, the sudden sun was so hot that one could not open one's eyes and stood in front of the former site of "Chai Diam Ma", the gathering place of cultural youth on Penang Island.

The sign remains the same, but she didn't say, "there's a Swimming Cat who can swim inside." Hey, where's the cat? where's the new sign?

Xiao Hu's hand in making coffee has the skills he has accumulated over the years in various cafes.

She said, "go in and find Wang Xiaohu!" Isn't Wang Xiaohu in Huang Yulang's "Dragon and Tiger Gate" cartoon? All right, just look for it. Stepping into the door of the old house, well, there was really something different. At the bar in the front hall, the man with samurai hair looked up and smiled shyly, as if he had seen it somewhere. Oh, it was a lovely Wenqing who held a postcard exhibition here a few years ago.

Tiger, long time no see. What about the cat that can swim? Here, in the wooden cabinet in front, I have already posed for you to take a picture. But it is not the cat that can swim, it is the cat that came here on the same day as me. Ask him another question: "if you rent the place in 'Chai Diam Ma', why don't you put on the sign 'Swimming Cat'?"

The cabinets on this wall are still reserved for "Chai Diam Ma". There are collections that Queen does not sell, as well as local art books and postcards sold on consignment.

"the board on the outside says" We Swim,Catch your breath,take your time until 7pm. " Oh, okay. The orange cat walked gently past him, turned over and stretched himself. The tiger asked, "what would you like to drink?" Hey, when did you learn to make coffee?

He smiled and said, "after the only time we met, I spent the rest of my life hanging around in chain cafes and independent cafes." His good friend said that maybe Xiaohu has no talent, but his enthusiasm and efforts transcend everything, experience and numerous failures and setbacks, he can finally leisurely brew an intoxicating cup of handmade coffee and pull out beautiful coffee flowers.

Even the signboard was not put up, so low-key that only by word of mouth among friends, "Swimming Cat" lived leisurely in Queen's Street.

When he moved to the island from Dumen last year, the pace of the old city was closer to the frequency of the tiger. He lived in the attic of his old house and helped his friends hold one art event after another. In the end, Queen, the owner of Chai Diam Ma, asked him to take over the cafe. He thought for a while without nodding. "at last, somehow, I agreed, ah." Even the name of the store is random, just say yes to a friend.

Casual, seemingly arbitrary placement of a cupboard, a table and a chair, are all "Swimming Cat" mode adjusted by Xiaohu, with staggered seats, guests lazily locating a cup of handmade coffee, half sitting and half lying down and even lying down on the table to empty, somehow, it naturally exudes a touch of relaxation and laziness.

Next to the gate, there is the strongest smell of "tiger". At present, some Queen collections are still retained on one side of the old house, and Xiaohu has introduced multi-national non-mainstream publications to BOK TJUV, which represents an independent magazine. China's "enough" independent magazine, Taiwan's "The Big Issue Magazine" magazine, and Poland's independent magazine "THISISPAPER" are all here.

The lovely and personalized cat manager always appears in the store at an unexpected time, longing for his own life.

When the weather was just right, the guests slipped under the rear patio, finished reading a book in the bright sky, sipped a cup of coffee, and teased the orange cat who had been playing outside for a long time. The guests who came here seemed to regard it as their own living room. Guest A said, "Xiao Hu, where is the bag of snacks?" The little tiger did not raise his head and replied, "in the back, take it yourself!"

Xiao Hu bowed his head and made coffee and said, "it seems that. Those who come are all my friends! They sometimes come here to sleep, otherwise there are people who bring their own lunch for coffee. " The cafe rules that we will encounter: no one way or another, it doesn't seem to exist.

This is Xiaohu's dream platform, he said that his ideal is to make a person's coffee dessert light food, so that a person to the guests to enjoy a person's happiness. It will also be a communication platform for art and cultural activities. What are the terms of cooperation? Xiao Hu smiled again: "here we come. Let's talk about it later."

I don't seem to have gone to a cafe. I went to a friend's house to get lazy all afternoon. Drop by sometime. Come and sit down.