Shanghai Tan Dian | T12 virtual lab coffee shop-strength explains what a real boutique cafe is.

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I believe that everyone has their own definition of what a boutique coffee shop is, and of course, they are constantly trying to find a boutique cafe that satisfies their hearts. In fact, when it comes to Shanghai, it should be a "treasure place" for friends to visit shops from time to time. It can be said that Shanghai is a representative microcosm of China's coffee industry. Here you can see the competition and competition of all kinds of heroes. Strive to give the public more characteristics and professional delicious coffee, in this land is also constantly sprouting a new fire of hope, everyone is moving forward on the road to realize the ideal …...

The store is located at No. 5 Wuxing Road, Shanghai.

It's called T12:LAB.

Recently, it was the Meiyu season, and Shanghai happened to be caught in a torrential rain. I always felt that whenever I insisted on visiting the cafe on a rainy day, it should be my true love, .

Quite like this retro street lamp, in such a gloomy Meiyu day, the heart seems to find a beacon of hope in general, and it is also on this day, appears so dazzling.

Friends who visit T12 for the first time should note that there is also a "door opening instruction". Since the door is locked with a password, it will guide you to take a look at this opening instruction unconsciously, such as there is only coffee, no sugar, no care about flower drawing, no WiFi and table, can only eat in a restaurant without takeout, and so on.

I believe that when you read this, some people may think that there are so many "rules" here. In fact, to some extent, this is a subtle skill of "screening customers". I don't know how many people will explain the reasons behind this. It is not clear whether the shopkeeper wants these so-called "rules" to be explained, but he still wants to correct the name: fine coffee strives to drink its original roasted and brewed flavor. If you add sugar or other seasoning at this time, what you drink may always have only one taste, which may not be good for yourself. Pulling flowers is also a controversial topic, but in any case, tasty is the king, and all the show-off skills that are not for the purpose of tasting are hooligans.

After entering the door, the furnishings here are very simple. A long L-shaped plank serves as a place for guests to take a nap and drink coffee, with a small round table of solid wood next to it, giving you a space for a short rest, not arrogant and impatient, and quietly taste a cup of delicacy. it's like a post station encountered during a long journey, waiting for blood-filled resurrection to continue to set out on the road.

The back wall is brick primitive retro feeling, a large area of blank, give you a sense of emptiness in the line of sight, but also interesting with several different styles of hat as decoration, simple and quiet, empty here, immersed in their own world, go and talk to yourself who is not too bad.

Here also cleverly built a projection area, sitting opposite guests can also drink coffee, while watching the screen, this time is a coffee documentary, feel the story about coffee on the other side of the world.

There are also several guests on the outside of the bar, where the baristas are very nice, warm greetings and interactive exchanges, soothing their mood in such a rainy day can also be very happy, perhaps some friends have questions about the relationship between T12 and TABLE12 Specialty Coffee? Of course it's a family. There are so many branches in the twinkling of an eye. I really should come to Mordu more often.

with bright windows and clean tables,

There is a small garden outside.

Full of green, everything is full of vitality

The Summer Solstice hasn't arrived yet.

On the wall next to it are a few aprons of baristas, a little Japanese-style warm curtain style "screen", separating the inner staff only and private areas such as the bathroom, everything is very simple, no fancy, let alone gimmicks, talking with coffee in a down-to-earth manner, and never forget after drinking.

Looking around for a week, when I went to the bar to order, the Italian beans in T12 were all SOE. When I visited, I happened to have two kinds of SOE to choose from, one is Kenya, the other is Brazil.

The bar of T12 is not big, but it is also full of internal organs, and there is a special hand-flushing area, where many individual beans are carefully selected, and there are even beans with outstanding COE performance, so I believe that there will be some changes in individual coffee here from time to time, and there should be new surprises every time I visit.

Ordered a cup of flat white from SOE, Kenya, coffee and milk fusion degree is still very good, the product temperature is moderate, served immediately in front of can drink, flat white and piccolo and concentration have a feature, that is, "short drink", the best of this kind of coffee is three or four mouthfuls, taste the coffee itself before and after taste, although the time is short, but the process is to bring a wonderful journey to the taste buds.

This cup of Kenyan SOE should be moderately roasted in style. Unlike the light roasted Kenyan espresso in the past, this cup of body will feel better, but the playful acidity will be weaker. Maybe I am still sentimentally attached to the taste of fresh millennium tomatoes, so this Kenya will look different than expected, but the final rhyme is really great, very long-lasting, and the bottom of the cup is full of fragrance.

Maybe I am really not done. I even ordered another Brazilian SOE, and this time I replaced it with a smaller piccolo latte. In fact, not many people make piccolo in the cafe, so it is not easy to present a level of flavor expression in a small glass.

Close to the coffee photo, the coffee liquid surface is very flat, the fusion of coffee and milk is still very good, this cup of Brazilian flavor is more prominent, with a very primitive thick feeling, accompanied by a little cocoa flavor in the process, but then this thick turned into obvious sweet, very sweet, very soft.

After two cups, it is already "enough to drink and eat". It is time to leave contentedly, chatting with the barista for a long time, happy because everyone you know in coffee, you are angels generally come to my life, just like you in front of the mobile phone screen now, never underestimate your abilities, because you and I are enriching each other's lives, my world can not be wonderful without you.