Light Japanese coffee

Yang Siping Ono column

Maybe it's because I prefer coffee so much that I often think that the scene with coffee is very beautiful. No matter whether the coffee cups and saucers are clean or not, whether the color of the coffee is authentic or not, if there is a cup of coffee there, beauty seems to have a focus.

I like watching Japanese movies and TV series dealing with coffee best. There used to be a Seagull Canteen, all filmed in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Northern Europe, as you can imagine, bright light, pure white coffee cups and saucers, clean hands holding a small mouth pot and pouring hot water into the trickle filter cup, a layer of mellow coffee oil floats, and the heat floats slowly, just like delicious coffee. The food director of "Seagull Canteen" is called Naimi Iijima, who is slightly fat and always smiles kindly like the aunt next door, but she is very good at the design and layout of food, as long as she serves as food director of the film, most will be exquisite and kind. Even if you have no sense of the plot, you will find it pleasing to the eye as a silent film.

The Japanese are really good at creating an atmosphere and can make the details of life very warm and aesthetic. The Japanese drama "the moment of tenderness", which aired in 2005, is also a good example. This Japanese drama is not very popular, and I am not a chaser of Japanese TV dramas, just because it is a story that takes place in a cafe, I specially asked to see it.

A driving mistake made by young Tuolang led to the death of his mother, Huimei, who was sitting in the copilot. The father loves Huimei so much that he can't forgive his son. Yong Ji quit her job and returned to Huimei's hometown, Fuliangye Mountain, to open a cafe called Mori Chronograph. Tuolang also kept a secret from his father and worked as an apprentice in a nearby kiln. Furano is the best tourist destination in Hokkaido, Japan, and it is beautiful all the year round. The Japanese are very good at making wooden buildings. Mori Shiji Cafe is like a wooden villa in the mountains with bright floor-to-ceiling windows. outside is the scenery of the four seasons of Furano, and inside is the coffee mill and coffee utensils lined with windowsills by the boss, Yong Ji.

The characteristic of the Mori timepiece is to let the guests grind the coffee beans by themselves, so the boss slowly wipes the cup, the guests slowly turn the coffee mill, everyone is chatting in a low voice, the heavy snow outside the window, or the maple leaves falling gradually, are all very beautiful pictures. There are many Japanese dramas set in cafes, but only this "gentle moment" really gives coffee a lot of opportunities to leave the country.

The coffee drunk by the Japanese is usually very light, more similar to American coffee. When the coffee is poured out, it will have a transparent texture. The coffee cups used in Mori Chronograph Cafe are blue and white rather than the usual white bone porcelain cups. Sometimes I see guests drinking coffee slowly, which is actually very much like drinking tea.