Boutique coffee culture New Zealanders love coffee

The island nation of New Zealand, surrounded by the South Pacific, is inextricably linked with its neighbor Australia and is also a famous high-end tourist destination in the southern hemisphere. There are so-called "100% pure" natural ecological environment and world-famous extreme sports and adventure tourism resources-most of the tourism information about this country is described around these two aspects. However, many people who have been to New Zealand will also think about the coffee there.

Coffee is a favorite drink for ordinary people in New Zealand. No matter in big city or small town, you can drink a cup in a coffee shop on the street corner for a few yuan. The taste of coffee is mellow, elegant and elegant, even inferior to some star-rated hotels in China. This "coffee culture", which originated from the folk, also nourishes New Zealand in a sense-the super "positive" aroma of coffee floats among the clean and beautiful urban landscapes, always giving rise to lazy thoughts. No wonder the local people always look leisurely, young people wearing headphones, do not care about the world, lying on the lawn by the lake for an afternoon.

For Chinese people who live at a tense pace all the year round, New Zealand coffee is more like a symbol of a different state of life. Admittedly, this is an enviable state.

As a tourist, being able to hold a cup of "Xiao Xin" coffee in a daze is undoubtedly the most comfortable thing on the journey.

● Cafe:

A traveler's "gas station"

New Zealand is the Creator's lucky child. All the natural resources here seem to have been carefully "filtered". The sky is blue, the lake is blue, the starry sky is vast at night, and there is a big blue mirror everywhere. Every year from November, New Zealand enters the late spring and early summer, and now it is even more sunny, and the beautiful summer has been officially rolled out.

Christchurch, the largest city on New Zealand's South Island, is a world-class "garden city" and claims to be "the most British city outside the UK". It is also the gateway to the South Pole. Christchurch has many national parks, which are planted with flowers and trees of all colors and forms.

If you like to hang out in the park, you are sure to form a bond with cafes-Christchurch is dotted with cafes of all sizes, almost within walking distance, and the things that Lao Guang often says are "flat and beautiful" here.

3.5 NZ dollars a cup of coffee, equivalent to more than ten yuan, this is the average price of a cup of coffee in most coffee shops in New Zealand. It seems hard to believe that the quality of such cheap coffee is as good as that of any star hotel in the country.

The cafes in New Zealand not only serve different types of coffee, but also provide cheap meals. For tourists, if you don't have to eat a big meal, a cup of hot coffee with a hamburger can solve the lunch problem during the trip. It is cheap and delicious, and warm coffee has an aftertaste.

Anywhere in Christchurch and the South Island, even in a small town with a population of only a few hundred, there must be coffee shops, some of which are concentrated in a coffee street. The store is usually served with simple desserts, but the coffee is unambiguous, even if it's just a small facade. Larger coffee shops offer cuisine that combines local specialties, such as mutton, venison, salmon, crayfish, oysters, kiwi and so on.

For travelers, in addition to refueling cars along the way, these scattered cafes can also be regarded as another "gas station". As you walk, you will find that you can't live without it.

● 's most persistent Coffee Mania

A New Zealand couple living in Wellington once spent three years around the country tasting coffee, compiling a detailed guide to the best cafes in New Zealand, and setting up a New Zealand coffee guide website. the site even has a map embedded to show where to find the best cafe. This shows how much New Zealanders love coffee.

According to statistics, the number of coffee roasters per capita in New Zealand ranks first in the world, and in the past decade, New Zealand coffee masters are in the forefront of the world competition. In the past few decades, a "coffee revolution" has affected almost all New Zealanders. More and more New Zealanders love coffee and even become "coffee connoisseurs". As a result, the coffee industry is growing rapidly, with new cafes and coffee roasting shops springing up like bamboo shoots, some in the streets or shopping malls of big cities. some settle in small towns around the city, and business is booming almost without exception. Baristas try their best to make perfect coffee, which makes New Zealand coffee more and more sophisticated.

The reason is that New Zealanders like to eat in cafes, where they enjoy life and time, reading and reading newspapers leisurely, which is almost the same as drinking morning tea and reading newspapers in old Guangzhou. however, it is a bit more leisurely-in New Zealand, most of them are young people, not retired and idle old people. For this reason, many coffee shops offer free WIFI, because as long as the guest sits down, the boss wants you to sit as long as possible.

In order to drink their favorite coffee, some New Zealanders even go a long way. Their target may not be the petty bourgeoisie cafes you might imagine, but some roadside stalls. Some mobile stalls even have only a coffee machine and a barista, still welcome the guests-- perhaps only here, drinking coffee is an act without any additional meaning and purpose. It's like finding a favorite restaurant and having a delicious meal when you're hungry, that's all.

The Xiaobai coffee that ● missed.

Although New Zealand wines are also famous, there are many good wineries and winery tours are common, by comparison, the local coffee culture seems to be more attractive. Many cities have set up special tourist routes with fine wine and food, as well as private guide services to introduce the best cafes for tourists. If you meet tourists who are particularly good at coffee, the travel company can even provide a detailed description of the terms of coffee in New Zealand.

There is a wide variety of coffee in New Zealand. Espresso (espresso) is the basis of all coffee varieties, with the strongest aroma and a long aftertaste. On this basis, you can drink cappuccino, latte, macchiato, black coffee and other varieties in any coffee shop, while flat white ("Xiaobai" coffee) is considered to be the first coffee in New Zealand. it is a brewed coffee with less milk and is famous in the world coffee field with milk that can be framed into texture.

Many New Zealanders and Australians go to Britain and the United States to open cafes in big cities such as London and New York. Their direct role is to spread the reputation of "small white coffee" in Britain and the United States. It is more and more popular with foreigners.

And the reason why we are so fond of New Zealand coffee has something to do with the local climate. New Zealand claims to have not only four seasons in a year, but even four seasons in a day-mornings like winter, noon like spring, afternoons like summer, and evenings as cool as autumn. Even at the turn of spring and summer, it is quite cold in the morning and evening. Some sightseeing activities, such as riding in a hot air balloon, usually leave before dawn, and they often shiver with cold. Even at noon when the sun comes out, it always feels chilly in spring. In such a climate, it's no wonder that what travelers look forward to most in a day is a cup of hot coffee.

Unfortunately, I learned about Xiaobai coffee only after I left New Zealand. It was a bit of a pity that I didn't have a cup of coffee there. But perhaps the reason why the trip is unforgettable lies in such a beautiful small defect.