Map of Guangzhou Zechong Cafe

Hand-made coffee

Coffee smells fragrant, but the entrance is slightly bitter and sour, but it also brings some sweet, just like a life with mixed feelings, it takes time to savor it carefully. For children, it is too bitter and tastes too complicated. Only those who have fought for a few years in the workplace can savor its changes one by one. In Guangzhou, with more and more office buildings and fierce competition in the workplace, there are more and more hand-made cafes dominated by individual coffee, giving those urban jungle killers a place to quietly comb their hearts. you can slowly taste a cup of coffee with rich flavor.

The "laboratory" of professional coffee

"Miji Cafe" is hidden on the new road on the right side of the temple, it is like Alibaba's treasure, from bean roaster, electric coffee maker to hand pot, but the door password is not the beautiful woman's Qianqian jade hand, but sincere "coffee". From the traditional pressure pot to the Japanese siphon extraction, as well as the now popular filter pot hand flushing, a variety of cooking methods can be found here.

This is not only a place for you to taste coffee, but also a place for you to touch coffee deeply. The two librarians will come to the store to teach coffee courses in person every other day. Remember to make an appointment one day in advance, because there are only eight tables in the store.

"it's easy to learn coffee."

In the eyes of most people, brewing coffee is as precise as a chemical experiment, including water temperature, quantity, fineness of powder, and water speed. Be fastidious about everything. But in the eyes of Paul, the owner of the library, making coffee is actually an easy and interesting thing. He and his partner took courses because they were obsessed with coffee, and their coffee certificates and competition awards hung all over the walls of the studio. In the end, they simply resigned and opened the Jimmy Cafe.

It sounds like they don't know where to go, but for them, it's just because coffee is so much fun. "in fact, you don't have to face the enemy to make a cup of coffee. You can try anything. Just like many people say that coffee should be careful and extractive, in fact, it is also a kind of taste. Only after you have tried it will you know to what extent it is appropriate to stew. This process of constant debugging is also interesting. "

So Paul and his partner will not only make coffee by hand, but also teach you how to brew coffee, identify the variety and aroma of coffee beans (there are nearly 100 aroma bottles tested by professional baristas), and tell you the difference and quality of the equipment used to make coffee, so that you can know not only why, but also why.

Extract a section of mint blue tenderness

In "cherry pick", I can't help but float the phrase "the tenderness of that bowed head". Because Cai Cai, the barista here, is a young girl with a shy smile, using the nuova simonelli Black Hawk va388 coffee machine and hand-made pots and filter cups specially made from Jingdezhen.

"drink the taste of life in coffee."

The "cherry pick" in Gaode Land, a new city in the Pearl River, is decorated with minimalism, with nothing more conspicuous than the extra-long coffee bar and a row of Tiffany blue coffee machines and cups.

Cai Cai is even more famous, she is the second place in China in the 2015 World Cup. When you sit in front of the coffee bar, she will whisper about the characteristics of each coffee, as cordial as the little sister next door. Because for her, "Coffee can taste life and bring people closer."

The refinement of brewing coffee

Cai Tsai strives for excellence in the taste of coffee, not only paying attention to the utensils, utensils and filter paper used to brew coffee, but also so fine that the coffee is extracted according to the front, middle and back stages. Here, Espresso will only extract the middle and front segments of the coffee liquid, while Ristretto will extract the front segments to get a more mellow taste. Cai Tsai prefers the brewing method of kono Didi because it can increase the alcohol thickness of coffee.

Like a cafe in a museum

The "back and forth Cafe" hidden in the Liuyun District on Tianhe South Road is opened by art institutions. Indoors and outdoors are like two worlds, with expensive modern murals and Danish brand stereos, coupled with long log tables and wooden boxes and iron buckets, while the open-air area presents a small and fresh flavor, which is most suitable for sitting in the shady open-air seats in the afternoon, enjoying slowly and watching passers-by in a hurry.

When you enter a coffee shop, you will immediately notice the Italian Bezerra coffee machine shaped like a steam boiler on the coffee bar. On top of this coffee machine stands a golden eagle, which is a replica of the first generation of golden eagle machine in 1901, worth 160000 yuan. It has low water content, has the best effect when used to make milk foam, and its texture will be extra dense.

Coffee smells good and people smell it.

To find "Coffee Global", all you need is a sensitive nose. The owner of this cafe, hidden in Xipu Qiheng Li, Xiaozhou village, bakes coffee beans every day. The unique smell of burning is blended with the smell of leaves and sunshine of the banyan tree to form its own lazy smell.

The door of the cafe is always open, with bicycles parked and old pianos on the other, chairs are placed irregularly, and anyone who likes it can move over and watch Senven, the manager, make coffee freely behind the bar. Occasionally, another person in charge can be seen coming out of the baking room behind the shelf to take a sip of coffee and continue to bake beans.

The beans in this cafe are not only for your own use, but also sold to coffee-loving coffee fans. It covers most of the varieties on the market, and you can search them directly on the cafe's website.

It has nothing to do with the wind moon, only coffee.

Looking for this cafe can be described as twists and turns, around the overseas Chinese New Village, through an iron gate, into Unity Road, only to find the hidden wooden door in the dense vines, next to a small wooden sign with the word "irrelevant" written on it.

The "irrelevant" Cafe is located in a cottage with a garden. The carmine peach falls under the swing chair, reflecting the emerald moss and unspeakable serenity. Only bursts of coffee aroma curl, like a pair of gentle hands, take you to a field that can be emptied.

The shopkeeper once opened a cafe in Dali and returned to Guangzhou to return to his old business. This is a small restaurant with only four tables, using beans from Shanghai's "pure", as well as selling coffee brewing tools that the boss bought from Japan, all of which are handmade by designers with simple shapes.

As the shop is small, in order to keep fresh, the number of each bean here is small, if you want to drink two more cups, you must hurry.

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Hand-made coffee, starting with understanding the third coffee wave

After 2010, boutique coffee is springing up around the world, known as the "third coffee wave". This can be said to be a revolution. It is precisely because the market is now filled with a large number of products that fail to restore the quality of coffee, confusing the public's correct understanding of coffee, the emergence of a group of coffee advocates who really love coffee, who insist on providing high-quality coffee and spread authentic coffee culture. and its exclusive technology, so it can relatively attract people who really like coffee.

The so-called boutique coffee refers to the coffee made from raw beans which are grown in a few ideal geographical conditions and have excellent taste characteristics. This kind of coffee beans will be strictly selected and graded, with hard texture, rich taste and excellent flavor, which can be regarded as selected coffee beans. In order to maximize their flavor and flavor levels, bakers will bake them light and medium, while the previously popular heavy baking is falling out of favor.

Because of the coffee beans made in this way, the taste levels and aroma are more complex and changeable than matching beans, so the hand-flushing method arises at the historic moment. In this way, even the same kind of coffee beans will have different flavors according to the different stewing time, flow speed and water temperature, which can be said to adapt to the current trend of pursuing individualization. it can also better show the unique complexity of boutique coffee itself. So in the past two years, boutique cafes have expanded wildly in Guangzhou, soaring from four or five to more than 10 in just one year, and even opened to Xiaozhou Village. Without exception, they all focus on hand-made coffee.

Rose coffee

"Rose", located on the sixth Road of Zhongshan, belongs to the first generation of boutique cafes in Guangzhou. It bakes beans by itself. The shopkeeper has a lot of experience in the research and development of coffee equipment. The landlady Rose is a gentle and amiable woman who will introduce you to all kinds of coffee in detail.

From the coffee

Coffee lectures and cup tests are often held at Congqi on West Road (several different kinds of coffee are evaluated and compared at the same level). The landlady here makes a good dessert and matches the coffee very well.

Dream High dream house

Hidden in the "Dream House" on Zilong Street in the west of Jiangnan, Muzi, the owner, is definitely a bright spot. This is a boy who is so serious about coffee that he can be said to be "paranoid". He can bake every kind of beans and even record his coffee curve.