Coffee chains are very different here.

Wen / Gong lost to Lantu / Wang Zhenkun

No coffee is produced here, but it is one of the cities with the largest number of cafes in the world. There is no special coffee breed, cooking skill or special blending form belonging to this city, but there is no doubt that in this city, you can drink the best coffee in the world.

During my more than half a month in Melbourne, what makes me feel most comfortable is that I go out every day and go to a coffee shop for coffee. The coffee in Melbourne is like the winter weather in Melbourne, suddenly sunny and warm, but after all the sky is blue clouds, white trees, green grass, green flowers, swaying gulls and birds.

When you are new to Melbourne, your first cup of coffee will naturally find Starbucks, the coffee shop chain you are most familiar with. Want to go online, check the map, adjust the mood, in order to prepare for the next trip. But there were so few Starbucks in downtown Melbourne that only one was found in the busiest SwanstonStreet.

If it is in Shanghai, Starbucks near Henglong and CITIC Pacific on Nanjing Road will not even be able to find a seat in the afternoon. But the shop on the first floor and a half of 30 or 40 seats was less than 30% full, with sparrows chirping on the lampstand, standing on the back of the chair, and wandering under the table, although it was later known that the carefree shuttling of gulls in all the stores was a major feature of Melbourne, but at that moment, I had to think of the Chinese word "sparrow".

The clerk is very warm, and the standard paper cup latte is also delicious, especially the pancake burger, the crust is warm and crispy, and the ham inside is full of meat, not like the cold overnight smell of most fast-food hamburgers. But on the ground floor, except for three Saxon descendants talking enthusiastically and two students surfing the Internet, only a tramp took a nap in the corner of the most comfortable couch.

The second floor is the half floor, and you can explore the whole half floor on the ground floor. Five or six students put two long desks together around a laptop to discuss what, two old sharp brothers curled up in each corner of the armchair, in a daze, or squinting. A little yellow-billed bird has been flapping on the window. I don't know if I want to fly out and be blocked by the glass or learn to swoop and play, making a big noise.

Sitting alone in such a store, if it is to surf the Internet, it can be calm, if it is just for a cup of coffee, it will be too depressing. Not to mention like domestic literary youth bring a book to the cafe to dress up, because tramps and birds will not care about you.

As soon as half an hour comes, the Internet time for a cup of coffee is cut off immediately. Get out of Starbucks amid the enthusiastic Bye of the clerk and find the tram to St. Kilda's StKilda Beach, where there are coffee shops that have a lot of likes online.