Here to keep the old human feelings-an exclusive interview with "exaggerated Ancient understanding Coffee Shop"

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Holding a cup of hot coffee in both hands, shouting that it was hot and almost knocked over, Chen Liying, the owner of the shop, made an exaggerated appearance.

Worked in a coffee shop for ten years, but only liked cocoa.

At the age of 16, he had to work everywhere. "from delivering newspapers and parts workers to the whole family, I never thought about what I was going to do when I grew up." She said.

I worked in a coffee shop chain for 20 years, from clerk to supervisor. In the first ten years, I only liked to drink cocoa. When I was studying in Japan, my life slowed down and I really fell in love with brewing and tasting coffee.

After staying in the workplace for a long time, she felt the same way: "I go to work as a colleague, but I don't know her after work." she was tired of alienation and considered changing careers. However, when she helped her friend adjust the bean grinder, her heart beat faster, and she realized that she could not do without coffee.

One-person coffee shop, the SOP in mind is not careless.

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At the same time, he is a barista, a cook and a shop assistant, occasionally nagging the eldest sister next door, "order quickly. I still have a lot of work to do." When it comes to how to manage an one-person coffee shop, she has her own SOP: for example, she has to finish dessert before opening the shop in the morning, and when there are too many guests, first make a round of drinks, and then make meals. "to be efficient and tidy, guests can be casual, but they can't be loose."

Why not find a partner in a storefront of more than 20 ping? In fact, it is not that she is too tricky, but she used to dig her heart out, and now she wants to be alone.

When there are no guests, Chen Liying likes to hum Lin Huiping's classic song played in the store: "if I had known that love would hurt people so much and love would be so difficult to sleep, why should I be so serious in the first place?" Even so, she still believes that human nature is good and does not fight to win or lose.

I was a child of a family village in my last life.

When I walked in, it was like going back to Ah Gong's house in the family village. the coffee table pressed famous films and invitations, drinking old teacups, coir coir rainbows hanging on the wall, and old-fashioned TV sets with sliding doors next to them. these rare antiques are all collected everywhere when the father knows that his daughter wants to open such a shop.

"maybe it's because the landlady wants to remember her childhood." The guests probably think so. However, she grew up in New Taipei City and grew up in a businessman's family that had nothing to do with the military. She lived in a building, not a typical city dweller, nor a rural child, but she was a crazy fan of the Taiwan opera Story of time.

He decided to open a shop and recreate Taiwan in the 1950s without thinking, making it unique in Taipei coffee shops full of cultural youth and industrial style. A year later, when she visited the family village in Guishan, Taoyuan, she found that the furnishings of a room were almost the same as those in the shop, which frightened her into taking down the identical poster.

Later, I asked a few friends who were "connected" with Tarot cards. In her previous life, she was indeed a family village child with regrets.

What has changed since opening the store?

After opening the shop for more than three years, I tried my best to keep the store in the first year, made new friends in the second year, and realized who was sincere this year. Chen Liying, who is not married, said that the store made her brave and earned friendship and family. She used to work in the service industry, but she didn't have time to meet her friends and relatives on holidays, but now she can come to the store to talk to her. At this time, a table of regular guests helped to serve the meal to other guests when she was too busy.

Even if there are not many seats, there are no restrictions on dining time. We finally get together with our friends when we grow up. I hope we can have a good chat here and return to the happiness of our childhood.

"Don't ask me where I come from, my hometown is far away." in the last song I heard before leaving, Sanmao wrote a person's ideal and pursuit. If you are tired in the past, find some good friends. I remember turning a corner in Linyi Street in downtown Taipei, and there was a store that insisted on keeping the old days that we could not go back to.

Store Information:

Fan page: exaggerated Gu understand coffee shop

Business hours: 11:00-20:00, closed on Tuesday

Address: 40-5 Linyi Street, Zhongzheng District, Taipei

Tel: 0983 425003