Taiwan Cafe: travel study-Old Cafe drinks stories

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When this book was published, the Coffee Warehouse went out of business without warning, and it was regrettable that the boss did not know where to go.

"this coffee book does not write about the flavor of coffee, but records the human feelings of old coffee shops in Taiwan. Chen Songlan Hally, the author of "Human Coffee Shop," has been engaged in record art design for many years, and has written the distant Ice Fruit Room. Recently, he published "Human Coffee Shop," featuring the daily taste of 16 old coffee shops in Taiwan. He stressed: "it is not always human. The boss often faces the guests so that the store has the temperature. The times are the best screening. They listen to the guests' stories all their lives and are full of human feelings. "

He says that when coffee first began to develop in Taiwan in the 1950s, coffee was a symbol of high class. Now coffee has spread into the lives of ordinary people, and it can even drink coffee, read newspapers and talk about things in the vegetable market. The rise and fall of coffee shops in Taiwan is also closely related to the times. For example, during the period when the stock market was booming, or when the government cracked down on video games and SARS, the prosperity also affected the survival of coffee shops.

Many of these more than a dozen coffee shops are run by people in their sixties and seventies, who stick to a small shop with gratitude, because in the past, when shop owners encountered difficulties and low ebbs, customers also supported them and even borrowed money to subsidize them. every owner of an old store has his own wonderful story.

Hally says that now there are new coffee shops in Taipei every month, and this book wants to tell modern young coffee shop owners that no matter how the taste of coffee changes in different times, the setbacks and problems in life are similar, and there is not only one standard for the taste of coffee and the success or failure of life, and the more yuan the better.

Hally lives in Taipei, and the old coffee shop introduced in the book is mainly in the north of Taiwan. he hopes to seize the opportunity to record the stories of these shops and owners, but something regrettable has also happened in the process of writing and publishing, such as "Coffee Warehouse." just as the book was about to be published, the owner went out of business without warning, and Hally was unable to deliver the book containing his story to the boss himself.

(China Times)