Coffee culture Taiwanese drink coffee as a habit

Xu Liyuan, a "coffee expert" who has been drinking coffee for decades and is proficient in all kinds of coffee making, has recently been poached from Taiwan to Xiamen to run the Mabelle Bakery Cafe, which has two chain stores in Xiamen with "desktop management." According to Xu Liyuan's experience, now mainland residents' individual tours to Taiwan have been launched. If mainland friends come to Taiwan, they can go deep into various characteristic cafes in Taiwan, go to "daze" and drink coffee, and they will certainly have a better understanding of Taiwan's urban life.

Drinking coffee is not exclusive to "petty bourgeoisie".

With Starbucks, 85C and other well-known cafes "heron", coffee drinking, which was initially popular only among foreigners, including Taiwanese, has become much larger, and Xiamen "petty bourgeoisie" have also begun to fall in love with the summer coffee time. As a result, many personalized cafes have emerged inside and outside Xiamen Island. These cafes are simple in design, and most of them have different main products, but the same thing is that most of them are not afraid of customers to "hang out". Even if they only spend more than ten yuan, they can sit for an afternoon or a night. These people are the main customers of Xu Liyuan's coffee shop.

In Xu Liyuan's view, compared with Taiwan, Xiamen has not yet reached the best time for cafes to operate. She said that in Taiwan, coffee is an ordinary drink, from office workers to housewives, from fast food restaurants to specialty cafes, you can see people drinking coffee. On the other hand, coffee is not an exclusive "petty bourgeoisie". It has entered the family. Xu Liyuan said with a smile, "many parents will take their children to get together in cafes, especially during the summer vacation. Cafes have free air-conditioning and many children's favorite pastries, which naturally become parents' favorite summer resorts." Xu Liyuan hopes that she can bring this "parent-child coffee style" from Taiwan to Xiamen.

Go to the cafe to experience city life

It is no exaggeration to say that Taiwan is full of cafes, not to mention chain giants such as Starbucks and Dante, not to mention the famous star cafes, which are ordinary streets and alleys, and there are individual shops with small doors and small households everywhere. Exotic amorous feelings, cartoon themes, simple feelings. Any variety of styles you can think of can be found in cafes in Taiwan.

Hsu Li-yuan says, for example, "Taiwan even has cafes in the middle of open countryside." According to Xu Liyuan's description, the coffee is mellow in the fields, mingled with the laughter of children, and this scene really subverts the stereotype of cafes that are only opened in busy neighborhoods.

"if you have the opportunity to visit Taiwan alone, you must not miss all kinds of cafes with different customs!" Xu Liyuan suggests that this is the best way to experience urban life in Taiwan. Even now, Xu Liyuan spends most of her time running cafes in Xiamen, but every time she goes back to Taiwan, she spends half her time looking for different cafes.

Not long ago, an article in Taiwan's "Wang Bao" wrote about the delicate mentality of Taiwanese people's love of coffee: Taiwanese have become accustomed to drinking coffee. In such a place, most people can settle down, live without hearing, support themselves, and have a good cup of coffee to drink at any time. Calm and calm is enough. Xu Liyuan understands this very well, and her leisurely speaking speed is in tune with the tranquil background music of the cafe.