Coffee review

Coffee is not so much a drink as a feeling

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2025/08/21, I like to drink coffee, and I like to sit in a cafe when I want to think about something or don't want to do anything. I don't know whether I like the faint bitter taste of coffee or the slightly charred taste of coffee beans in the air of the cafe. In fact, for those who like or love coffee, Beijing is a little confused. Coffee

与其说咖啡是一种饮品,不如说是一种感觉

I love coffee and I love going to coffee shops when I need to think about something or don't want to do anything. I can't tell whether I like the faint bitter taste of coffee or whether I am addicted to the smell of roasted coffee beans floating in the air of coffee shops.

In fact, for those who like or love coffee, Beijing is a bit confusing. Coffee is romantic, quiet, cultural, and emotional, so cafes should be small, quiet, warm, and whispering. Beijing has some such places to drink coffee, but not many, want to find coffee feeling, not very convenient. More Beijing cafes are camped either at the entrance of 5A office buildings or in a corner of luxury shopping malls. To find coffee, Shanghai is much easier than Beijing. When you want coffee, you can walk to Huating Road, Huashan Road, Maoming South Road or the quiet road where you walk along the road full of mature woman-like tall French parasol trees. Only the roadside cafes that only let you look at the beautiful names and the doors that look very different and taste will make you feel that the coffee inside must taste good. Compared with Beijing, Shanghai has a longer history of coffee, a deeper culture, and a better mass base for coffee in Shanghai. Therefore, several books on European coffee culture have been published in China in the past two years, which are quite good, all written by Shanghainese, such as Zhang Yao's Coffee Map, Open the Door of Cafe, Chen Danyan's Coffee Is Bitter.

If you're a coffee seeker and haven't been to Europe, it's a shame. Although coffee is drunk all over the world, it is only in Europe that coffee is brought to its cultural and processed limits. In Europe, whether in Paris, Milan, Brussels such as both culture and history of big cities, or in Nice, Padua such small cities, almost every street, every corner has a cafe, as long as you have the heart, almost every moment can smell the aroma of coffee, coffee for them, is life, is air, like butter, bread, mineral water, a day can not leave.

In a true European cafe (not a burger joint, pizza joint, McDonald's), customers never say "coffee" but name the coffee. It is said that in Vienna, famous for its milk coffee, the waiters in the famous cafes will carry with them 20 different coffee color scales, from light to dark. The coffee here will be authentic to the coffee color that comes up and the color on the color scale you ordered is exactly the same.

Coffee lovers need to understand the vocabulary of coffee in English, French, German and Dutch before going to Europe. Because if you don't know anything about these words, then when you walk into those big supermarkets in Europe and you're faced with all the colors and descriptions of coffee on the shelves, you really don't know where to start. Whether you choose coarse grind, medium grind, fine grind, or fine distillation grind and powder grind has a lot to do with how you brew your coffee when you get home. And you are buying coffee after dinner (Af? terDinner, decaffeinated coffee, or espresso, depending on your taste. You know, Paulig in Finland, Dewar in the Netherlands. Donwe Egberts are good coffee brands.

Of the hundreds or more ways to brew coffee in the world, none can be called the best. Everyone has their own preference. Sometimes coffee is not so much a drink as a feeling.

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