Mr. Lim Dong-Won, founder of GABEE Professional Cafe, World Bean Baking Competition Champion Baking Special training Camp

GABEE. The founder, Mr. Lim Dong-Won, has been in the coffee field for more than 20 years and founded GABEE on November 1, 2004. In the same year, the professional coffee shop also won the championship of the first Taiwan Coffee Masters Competition held by the Taiwan Coffee Association and won two Taiwan championships. It is also the first Taiwanese player of the World Coffee Masters Competition, GABEE. The team has won five championships and two runner-up trophies in Taiwan within five years, and seven honors have set an unbeatable achievement. The founder, Mr. Lim Dong-Won, has won numerous awards at home and abroad. He is often invited to professional judges and performances at home and abroad, serves as the coach of national representative athletes, works as a lecturer in various catering colleges, vocational training centers and education centers, and constantly strives to promote professional coffee culture. In order to expand coffee to a wider audience, we began to assist in the publication of the international traditional Chinese version of the professional coffee magazine, and through cross-border cooperation, we will integrate coffee into all things around life, make coffee a real part of life, and create a unique coffee culture.

GABEE. After ten years of accumulation and brewing, nearly 20 years of experience and refinement by the founder Mr. Lim Dong-Won, and through rigorous search and evaluation of raw coffee beans, we have established a good direct relationship with the boutique coffee manor, specifically for the whole batch purchase of micro-batch Mico-lot coffee raw beans, to select and directly import the best quality special flavor coffee raw beans for customers. Create the most in line with the boutique coffee market and the most comprehensive coffee series ~ GABEE. Rainbow seven boutique coffee series, to establish the highest quality boutique manor coffee products.

GABEE. After accumulating ten years of brand base, the Flying Project was launched and GABEE was established in Shanghai. Brand management company, hope to continue the experience and enthusiasm, lead the coffee industry in Greater China to a new future, also let GABEE. Towards a century-old brand of sustainable operation.

The "Coffee International Master Class" (CoffeeMasterClass) organized by the roaster is in its third year and is held on both sides of the Taiwan Strait for the eighth time. Inviting world-class coffee masters to give lectures in person is the purpose of the master class, hoping to inspire a new generation of baristas to learn the most cutting-edge technologies and ideas in the world, and to develop the courage of promising people. The masters invited by the master class include Alexandru Niculae, winner of the 2016 World Bean Baking Competition, Che Gu, winner of the 2016 World Baking Competition, Oden Sobotan, winner of the 2015 World Coffee Masters, Sasa Sestic, winner of the 2014 World Coffee Masters, Miguel Meza, International Bean expert and Baker, John Gordon, British Masters Champion, Willem Boot, the world's top expert in Rose Summer, and so on. International master classes are held in Taipei, Shanghai, Qingdao, Kunming, Dongguan and other places.

The 8th international master class will once again be led by Alexandru Niculae. This is the second time since he won the world championship that he has returned to Shanghai at the invitation of the "baker" to host the international master class. In the past few months, Alex has a deeper understanding of baking, more practical experience, and more experience in the use of baking software and hardware. It can be predicted that this will be a wonderful course!

Can you imagine a rookie who has only studied coffee for three years to win the World Cup Coffee Competition?

At the "World Cup Bean Baking Competition" (World Coffee Roasting Championship) held in Shanghai at the end of March 2016, there were a large number of experts from all over the world. Before the competition, the most favored were the previous year's world runner-up, Sweden's Joanna Alm, Britain's Matthew Robley-Siemonsma, and Italy, South Korea, Japan, and Russia, but finally ran a dark horse, representing Romania's Alexandru Niculae to beat the heroes. Dmitry Boroda, the chief baker of Double B, Russia, by one point.

Alexandru Niculae, who is only 30 years old, studied coffee for only three years before winning the world championship. Speaking of the cause of exposure to coffee, in 2013, he and his girlfriend worked in a small restaurant. Once his girlfriend's sister came to the store, and he made a cappuccino for guests. As a result, his sister saved his face on the spot and said that it was not a cappuccino. Then he demonstrated how the real Cabo did, and he knew that the world of coffee was far beyond his imagination. Then he went to Miami, USA, to visit his girlfriend's sister's house, and happened to have the opportunity to go to the only coffee roaster nearby. After drinking the amazing coffee, he decided to learn to be a bean baker!

Over the past three years, he studied hard, studied almost everything by himself, bought books, attended seminars at home and abroad, imported dozens of different kinds of beans from more than a dozen countries, and constantly practiced baking. Even in Bucharest, Romania, resources are not necessarily so abundant. It can't stop his fanaticism. What's his study secret? In fact, through the competition, "learn from competitors, whether it's baking or cooking." In 2015, he won the Romanian Baking Bean Championship for the first time. He ranked eighth in the World Baking Bean Competition held in Sweden, and the result was not satisfactory. The champion of that year was Norway's Oden Sobotan.

Last year, 2016 Alexandru made a comeback, once again won the Romanian championship, and won the world championship!

In Romania, most people are still used to drinking espresso, while the coffee in the supermarket is usually roasted deeply because of its poor quality, masking the bad flavor of the coffee. According to Alexandru, good coffee is absolutely not bitter, has a well-balanced flavor, is fully developed, and is so sweet that it doesn't even need sugar. But the popular Nordic baking does not satisfy Alex: "if the baking is too shallow, sometimes there is a risk of incomplete development." "

Over the past year, Alexandru has held seminars around the world to communicate with bean bakers from different countries. now he has rich teaching experience and a more in-depth understanding of the characteristics of different bean roasters. In this special training camp, he will share his baking skills and learning without reservation!