Mo Zhenchao: champion of the barista contest that poured 100000 cups of coffee

Yesterday morning, Dongguan Wanjiang Batou. Mo Zhenchao makes coffee in his Dejavu Cafe.

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Name: Mo Zhenchao, age: 32

Label: overall champion of the national barista competition

Quotation: "I don't know how to describe the importance of the word CO FFEE in my life. She is a friend, a lover and a life." My name is Barista. "

Winning the championship of three consecutive barista competitions, Mo Zhenchao, a native of Dongguan, has worked more than 20 jobs and started his own business but failed in the past decade. in the most confused time, the flower pattern aroused his desire for coffee. He gave up the high-paying position arranged for him by his family and chose to join the coffee company. Today, the 9th Coffee, the first large-scale pure professional coffee shop in Dongguan, and the DejavuCafe of Xiabafang Creative Zone are its masterpieces. He says it is his mission to promote coffee culture and plans to open Dongguan's first barista training center next month to make fewer detours for aspiring baristas.

It takes 10 years to enjoy coffee time.

Order a cup of coffee, order a sunshine, order a ray of warm wind, enjoy a lazy afternoon, life is nothing more leisure than this. For Mo Zhenchao, it took nearly 10 years from being attracted by the coffee pattern to really enjoying such a lazy afternoon. Mo Zhenchao, who has superb flower drawing skills, talks about the status of coffee in his life, describing it as "a friend, a lover, and even life."

In 2002, Mo Zhenchao failed in his first business. Faced with the departure of his girlfriend, the breakdown of his partner and the lack of understanding of his family, he felt unprecedented loss. "I have nothing but the dog Doudou around me." And even the idea of committing suicide. When he closed himself and thought about the way forward, a pattern of coffee flowers on TV miraculously called Mo Zhenchao's strong curiosity, "saying that coffee is my life is really no joke."

Give up a well-paid position to become a barista champion

Mo Zhenchao, who is not tall, has a sincere smile on his face. He is very attentive when making coffee. He says he can communicate with coffee and express his feelings through the pattern creation of flower drawing.

For winning three consecutive barista competitions (2009 Guangzhou 4th Coffee Championship, 2010 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Barista Competition, and 2010 China Barista Competition), Mo Zhenchao just said indifferently: "even if I don't win the prize, I don't regret choosing to be a barista."

Behind the champion, what kind of love and dedication does Mo Zhenchao have to coffee?

At that time, he searched all the bookstores in Dongguan and found no more than 10 books about coffee. He wrote down the recruitment or apprenticeship information of cafes in Dongguan with three pages of stationery and called one by one. He read the information about coffee search on the Internet and then wrote it down with a pen.

In 2006, Mo Zhenchao's family helped him find a well-paid job, and on the same day, the coffee company called to invite him for an interview. Mo Zhenchao chose the latter. "even if you make a lot of money, what's the point of being unhappy?"

Pour out 100000 cups of coffee to promote a sense of mission

Can't afford to buy a coffee machine, use a coffee shop or a friend's machine as a practical tool. Watch a few LATTEART videos over and over again, replace the daily welfare drinks with milk, and spend all your pocket money on buying boxes of milk. Mo Zhenchao's daily equipment is five or six bottles of milk and two or three. Coffee beans.

Over the past three years, more than 100000 cups of coffee have been poured out of his hand. Mo Zhenchao is sure of this number. He calculated that it would be 100 cups to fill the sink at the bar in the store. "at that time, I was really stupid. I practiced with a real gun, but I didn't expect to use milk powder." Mo Zhenchao giggled.

Now, Mo Zhenchao, who is already a shareholder in a leisure creative studio, says they are planning to set up a training center, which is expected to be launched next month, "to teach enthusiasts the basic skills and make fewer detours for those who aspire to become professional baristas." At the same time, Mo Zhenchao often goes to various cities to promote and teach coffee culture. "I was lucky to find my favorite in my thirties and continue it. There is only one thing to do in this life, and that is to make coffee well. A sense of mission is always pushing me. " (reporter Qiu Yunjing Chen Yiqi)