A.omen: a post-90s girl's hutong cafe after being rejected by Starbucks

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Yu Mei

Owner of A.omen Cafe

Two years ago, Mei and her husband, Tony, started running this boutique cafe, from being exposed to coffee in their junior year of college to running A.omen. As she said, everything is an omen, so the shop is called "omen". When she first read the fantastic Journey of Shepherd Boys, she decided to realize her dream, in which the shepherd boy finally arrived in Egypt after a long journey. And she and Tony also turned their own omens into reality.

5:30 light at A.omen Cafe

Omen

The moment I saw it, I decided to rent it.

When she was a junior, beauty encountered a bottleneck in her life. With the death of her loved ones, the major she was not good at, and her wasted life, she wanted to do something to change the status quo, even though she didn't know what to do.

She read Howard Schultz's "pour your Heart into it", so she wanted to go to Starbucks and learn coffee. "Starbucks didn't want me, maybe it's because of my appearance," she said with a smile. But later, Mei went to various exhibitions, groping from a little fan who could not help but wonder, and then she went to her favorite boutique cafe for an internship, until she became a person who really understood coffee and had a coffee dream.

It was all these decisions at that time that made her where she is today.

At that time, Mei often went to a friend's coffee shop with Tony for coffee. One day when she was walking back, she saw the present A.omen. When they looked in through that very broken window, the coffee shop they wanted suddenly became clear.

"knowing what it should look like, I know how big it is, I know where it is, it's just a feeling of falling in love at first sight, and then I decided to rent this place."

The cafe also uses the name A.omen from the Fantasy Journey of Shepherd Boys. Mei read this book when she was ready to open a store. the stories about dreams and persistence are printed on her heart, and she knows that she also has her own omens.

Beauty and Tony followed the designer to Gaobeidian to choose the bar wood, chairs, chandeliers and so on. Until the day before the store opened, she bought a pair of sofas in Lost&Found. A.omen was finally complete. She sat on the light green sofa and sighed, "how comfortable!"

Taste

From coffee to dessert, do it yourself

A.omen provides hand-brewed coffee, with basic models and monthly specials that vary from month to month. The five standing coffees are washed Sidamo ginger from Ethiopia in Africa, Jega Chuefei in the sun, tanning in Costa Rica, Lake Manteningtawa, and a Chilula in Kenya.

Washing Sidamo is always popular, and Mantenin, who tastes thick and fresh grass brown sugar, also has many candidates. Coffee is not always bitter, some people like sour ones, others like bitter ones. Beauty hopes that everyone can find what they like in A.omen, and then he can drink it every day as long as he wants to.

Beauty will train her shop assistants and spend a lot of time teaching them to drink a cup of coffee before making coffee. "I believe my clerks, they will drink it."

In addition to coffee, Mei also serves dessert in the store. The seemingly ordinary caramel bud has been carefully improved-beauty does not like sweets, so passion fruit and fruit are added to Burley, so it tastes fresh, sour and sweet, with spring and summer flavor, while cinnamon walnut yogurt cake with strong aroma is suitable for the four seasons. As for the yogurt cup, Mei will personally bake oats, and she packs all the nuts in the oats. She needs to know what is added to each product and what her guests are eating.

Dream

The shepherd boy finally arrived in Egypt.

"after making coffee, my mood swings are not as big as before. I don't seem to have anything particularly happy or unhappy. I met a lot of friends by opening a coffee shop, people they will cherish for the rest of their lives. They gave me a lot of warmth, comfort and encouragement, which is probably the happiest thing. As for unhappy things. There will be, but I don't remember much. "

When planning to open a coffee shop at that time, Mei and Tony were never ready, "but that's what the dream is, you'll never be ready." But everyone has a dream, but not everyone expects to realize it, and once you make a decision, it's like jumping into a fast-flowing river, and the river will take you and your dream all the way forward. It may take you far away, places you could not have imagined before.

So the shepherd boys were taken to Egypt by the river, and the beauty and their A.omen were taken to a better place in that omen.