Just for a good cup of coffee, from Beijing to Tokyo to South Africa

Follow the caf é (Wechat official account vdailycom) and found that Beautiful Cafe opened a small shop of its own.

Recently I read a book, which is one of the series of WithEating food posts, exploring the lifestyle of food. This episode focuses on coffee.

I'd like to share with you a few coffee shops that I can recommend, as well as miscellaneous things about coffee.

In 1652, the first cafe appeared in London.

Its advertisement reads: "this fruit is called coffee and only grows in a small tree in the Arabian desert." Use it as hot as possible, as long as the heat doesn't burn your mouth. "

Later, coffee swept Europe, was introduced every week, and eventually became a popular drink.

But the earliest cafe in the world, which is said to have originated in the near East in the mid-16th century, was designed to promote social interaction and was then known as "school of wise".

The earliest discovery of coffee beans is said to be an Ethiopian shepherd named Kaldi who was surprised to see the normally quiet goats alive one day. After investigating the reason, it was found that the goats had eaten the fruit of a tree, and that tree was the coffee tree.

ABOUT LIFE COFFEE BREWERS

Take-out coffee is also bought in line on the streets of Tokyo.

This is a store I have been to personally. When I was visiting Tokyo, I lived in the apartment building opposite the store. So, for five days in a row, I ran down to buy coffee, rain or shine. There are not many foreigners on the streets of Tokyo, but in this store, many foreigners can be seen walking on flip-flops to buy coffee every morning, while waiting to talk to baristas about the weather or the origin of beans. The barista in this shop is probably the best English person I have ever met in Japan.

According to the book, the owner of the coffee shop, who was born in 1983, was attracted by Australian coffee culture and went to Australia as a backpacker for a year. After returning to Japan, he studied coffee-related courses and founded the brand in 14 years.

This shop is very small, specializing in takeout, there is a long high table, but no chairs, you can wait inside when it rains.

The shop is on the corner, with white decoration, simple and clean. The whole coffee making process is open, in addition to the coffee itself, the process of waiting for coffee is also a kind of artistic enjoyment.

The largest number of guests in this shop is usually around 01:00 in the afternoon on weekdays, because many white-collar workers in the surrounding office buildings are used to taking away a cup of fresh hand-made coffee after dinner. In Japan's fast-paced work and life, the existence of this shop, with a cup of coffee brewed attentively, makes people feel a focused and serious concept of life.

SOLOIST COFFEE

The store originated in a small alley in Beijing. Its biggest feature is that the coffee beans used in the store are all boutique coffee beans with a cup score of more than 90 points by the American Fine Coffee Association in that season, and in order to ensure that the coffee beans are fresh enough, the store is equipped with a roaster that bakes twice a week to ensure the production of every cup of coffee.

* * freshly roasted coffee beans need to emit carbon dioxide. It takes 36 hours for coffee beans to be produced, and the flavor reaches its peak in about 4 days.

The last time I passed through Taikuri, Sanlitun, I seemed to see a branch. I must go to see it again when I have a chance.

TRUTH COFFEE

South African steampunk style Truth Coffee.

The store is located in Cape Town, the second largest city in South Africa. Over the past three hundred years, it has experienced the colonial rule of the Netherlands, Britain, Germany and France, which has created its aesthetic appreciation, and TRUTH COFFEE is like a microcosm.

The cafe is decorating with a sense of retro. The headquarters building has three floors, the upper two floors are creative studios for renting, and the bottom floor is a cafe of more than 600 square meters. In the central area is a 3-ton coffee roaster, and inside the machine is a coffee steam boiler and an iron roaster that gives each cup of coffee a special taste.

Friends who go to South Africa must not miss this coffee shop because the boss says they are not going to go out of South Africa.

Finally, to borrow a sentence from the book, today's information explosion, only willing to extract the essence from "Wang Yang", so that you who love or are about to fall in love with coffee, have a good cup of coffee.