Ono: old Villa Cafe, Xiamen

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When I met with an old friend a few days ago, I talked about the cafe in Xiamen. Friends said that today's cafes in Xiamen, more and more to the old villa style as the trend, Zhongshan Park, Xidi area, is originally the old city of Xiamen, there are many old villas, and now it is more like a cafe community.

There have long been several cafes on Gulangyu, whose names are so loud that I don't bother to mention them. In that year, however, in order to avoid tourists, he and his relatives chose places where there were no road signs. At the door of an old villa, they smelled the food and went in to ask. Sure enough, there was a deal. They ate seven or eight steamed crabs and a plate of fried potato chips with chili peppers. There was coffee after dinner, five yuan a cup. We were satisfied with the whole meal. But if you ask me where the shop is, I can't tell it, because it has a small face, no signs, and no menu cards. Later, I wanted to look for it, but I couldn't find it.

The elegant house near Xiamen University, which I often went to ten years ago, was also built in an old villa with interesting decoration. The best thing is that there are several single rooms. If you occupy one room and close the door to read, or gather a few companions to play cards all night, it will not disturb others. As far as I can remember, it has never been full. But I don't know whether it is full of tourists now, because it is also very famous.

The coffee and food of the elegant house are only in the right place. The boss is also often confused and often forgets his guests in order to play video games. But I still went there a lot ten years ago, because at that time I was studying in Xiamen University, and the dormitory was not as comfortable as reading on the sofa in the Yasha cabin. Sometimes tired of reading, looking at the curtains in a daze, behind the tulle reveals the shadow of big-leaf plants, the wind fluttered on the wall, very good-looking.

Xiamen has been full of petty bourgeoisie since ten years ago. Tired people in big cities come here to open a cafe and an exotic clothing store. There are always not many customers and rents are not cheap, but they can always survive. Unlike in Guangzhou, there is a delicious restaurant today. I will go to see it tomorrow.

Xiamen is so clean that it does not have the momentum of "big cafes" such as Paris, Vienna and Prague. But Starbucks doesn't have a market in a city like this. The cafe in Xiamen is most suitable for opening in the old villa, quietly, giving some memories to those who are willing to do so. But before you come to Xiamen, you must have something on your mind. Only those who have something on your mind can sink into the sofa and let the cool meaning of the old villa pass through your ears and feel that things have changed. I really want to grow old.

This should not be difficult, walking in today's world, who is not full of thoughts?

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