Fine coffee tastes better like a small cup of coffee.

Japanese economist Yoshimoto Yoshimoto's "Buy a Large Cup of Coffee at Starbucks" has influenced countless people's view of fast coffee consumption. With more and more coffee shops of different forms blooming everywhere in Guangzhou in recent years, you will find how much coffee customers disagree with this view of coffee consumption economy. They even think that, from various levels, in order to really enter the wonderful coffee world,

As an Italian who has lived in Guangzhou for five years, Romeo is very happy that he can drink Italian coffee in Guangzhou now. As a local Italian's shop, Zhujiang New Town's Touch Restaurant Bar is also the gathering point of the International Coffee Tasting Institute. In addition to the fully handmade coffee machine and excellent barista, the coffee cups in three size also show the pride here-whether cappuccino cup or espresso cup, the size here is smaller than that outside. Why is the cup of authentic Italian coffee so small? Romeo from Milan, the fashion capital, dressed in a "coffee suit", gently picked up a cup of espresso with two fingers, as if trying to tell me the answer with an elegant gesture. Of course, beauty is not the most convincing reason. "For a long time, there was no standard shape for espresso cups, until the Italian Coffee Tasting Institute spent two years discovering that a standard espresso cup should be cut in half. When the coffee flows into the cup, this shape is most conducive to the oil produced when the coffee mixes with the air to flow out along the round wall, resulting in the most beautiful flavor and taste." Romeo drew a little picture of "grease moving back", adding that of course temperature is important because it's not good to drink when it's cold, and that the size and thickness are just right to keep you at the best temperature during the two sips.

Espresso means "fast" in Italian, and a standard cup of espresso is 25ml of coffee extracted from 7 grams of ground coffee in 25 seconds. In Italy, many people stop at coffee shops for a drink on their way to work in the morning, so a barista often makes hundreds of cups of coffee in two or three hours. And drink fast. "Coffee is the most popular flavor in Italy, and bread is the second, so when you get espresso, you smell it deeply, take a sip, say hello to the people around you, and drink it in one sip." A 25ml espresso is only half a cup in a standard small cup, and you can see why Italian cappuccino or latte cups are also smaller, because no Italian takes long to sigh over a cup of coffee that no longer tastes good. Health advice: Do not exceed 300mg of caffeine per day. There are reasons why some people are still moderate in the face of coffee, no matter how much they enjoy it. Senior nutritionist Bobo, who has long worked on beverage culture promotion and publishing, believes busy urban people should adhere to the principle of moderation when enjoying coffee.

A digestive study at Stanford University School of Medicine set a safety limit for caffeine intake: no more than 300mg per day. A cup of coffee (the size of a hotel coffee shop porcelain cup) contains about 120mg of caffeine, while a can of Coca-Cola contains about 55mg and a cup of green tea contains about 15mg. Due to the irritation of caffeine, people with stomach problems or weak stomach should not drink too much, hyperthyroidism or fast heartbeat drinking coffee will also cause heart rate acceleration, mental excitement and other discomfort, and pregnant women or nursing mothers should also avoid caffeine. In addition, coffee beans are roasted, so drinking coffee is easy to get angry, if it is hot constitution, easy to get angry, insomnia, dream more friends should also be careful. If you know that you are not suitable for drinking coffee, you should try to avoid it, but if you really don't feel uncomfortable, then of course you should choose a small cup to taste it.

If you've read "Buy a Large at Starbucks," you probably won't order a 12oz tall CUP when you walk into a fast coffee chain like Starbucks, Pacific, Costa, etc., and you'll order at least a 16oz grand cup when each size class is only $3 apart--not everyone can drink a 20oz venti cup. The 8oz short, an unaffordable size that doesn't exist on the menu but can be ordered, has been forgotten by consumers and disappeared from Starbucks.

But in fact, the 8oz cup still has supporters. At Pacific Café, which has just opened in Taikoo Hui, the counter menu displays four cup sizes, including short(8oz), tall(12oz), grand(16oz) and alto(20oz). Raymond, a coffee shop manager from Hong Kong, said that from an economic point of view, ordering a large cup may be a win-win situation, but in fact, some customers, especially women, may not want to drink so much coffee. Even if they order a large cup, they will only drink half of it. This shows that it is not a matter of money. "Short cups have always existed in Hong Kong, so we kept this tradition when we opened stores in mainland China." Raymond believes that if you buy directly from the middle cup, it can indeed cost a few dollars, which raises the threshold of minimum consumption, but for Pacific Coffee, which has been the most popular coffee shop in Hong Kong for 12 consecutive years, it is more in line with business.

In fact, some regular customers choose to drink small cups of coffee, not entirely from the point of view of drinking volume. Raymond reveals what many customers at a coffee chain may not have noticed--that the same type of coffee doesn't taste the same in different size cups. "Coffee is different from Coke. Don't think that four size taste the same. Short cups and tall cups, grand cups and alto cups will have different amounts of coffee: short cups have a higher coffee-to-milk ratio than tall cups, so they will have different flavors. Regular customers will choose the cup that best suits them according to their consumption and taste requirements for coffee." That is to say, if you want a stronger coffee, you can choose short cups and grand cups, tall cups and alto cups are relatively light in taste, and coffee with higher concentration is often preferred by "coffee friends". What if you want to drink a large cup but worry about not enough coffee flavor? Raymond has a trick--this is also a feature of Pacific Coffee. If you order a tall cup or a larger size, you can ask the clerk for an "extra short" coffee, and it's free. Considering that espresso lovers are more of a core clientele, this is a nice little treat.