Coffee Museum in Dubai, interesting cafes.

As soon as we stepped into the labyrinth of wind towers and stone walls in the historic district of Afadi, Dubai, there was a strong and seductive smell of coffee that led us to a traditional villa, and the antique house number appeared in front of us-the Coffee Museum.

Coffee shops swept the western world and finally went back to the east. The people of the United Arab Emirates love coffee, and each resident here drinks an average of 3.5 kilograms of coffee every year. The Coffee Museum was established to pay tribute to this deep coffee friendship.

Khalid Al Mulla, the founder of the museum, spent three years searching for precious coffee utensils around the world to fulfill his dream. With the help of the Dubai Cultural Office and Alamula's partners, Dr. Dr. Hessa Lootah and Dr. Dr. Muna Al Bahar, this unique museum has finally unveiled its mystery to the public.

Each exhibit here has been carefully selected and comes from all over the world, with its own story behind it. The clay pot "Jamena" unearthed in Yemen tells the story of coffee hundreds of years ago, and Yemenis were the first in the world to master the art of coffee brewing. In another showroom, a coffee grinder takes people back to World War II, when demand for weapons fell short of demand, leading to a shortage of metal. The demand for coffee also inspired innovation, and people began to use discarded bullets to make metal coffee grinders!

There are many precious manuscripts in the small library on the second floor of the museum, all about magical coffee beans; some praise its quality, others study its side effects. Some of the data compare coffee to poison, which may be one of the reasons for the birth of "decaffeinated" coffee.

What makes these stories even more brilliant is the power of the narrator. Khalid Almula, the founder of the museum, is passionate about the project.

He happily shared with me the story of Ethiopian shepherd Khaldi's accidental discovery of coffee. He noticed that the goat behaved strangely after eating some coffee beans, which led to the birth of a small cup of black coffee. While traveling through time and space, it is really pleasant to taste the purest Ethiopian coffee at the same time.

So why do all the modern images and connections of coffee come from the West?

Ethiopia found coffee beans, and Yemen taught us how to brew. However, it is rumored that it was not until the Turks retreated from the famous Battle of Vienna in the early 17th century and left some coffee beans there that the West first tasted this powerful drink. Not long after that, the first coffee shop appeared in Vienna.

Soon, the coffee shop swept through the western world and finally returned to the east.

Now, with the expansion of international coffee chains in the United Arab Emirates, from Starbucks to Costa to Nespresso coffee capsules targeting the growing UAE market, people have almost forgotten that coffee was a local tradition in the Arab world before it became a popular import.

Murra says that in the traditional Majilis gathering, members of the community gather around each night, brewing cup after cup of roasted Arabica coffee "Qahwah". In fact, in the United Arab Emirates, you will also find coffee in unlikely places. Pay attention to a dirham coin, turn it over and you can see the pattern of the traditional "Dallah" coffee pot.

The United Arab Emirates is one of the fastest growing coffee markets, with a market capitalization of $112 million by 2017. Now, Alamura hopes the momentum will help the Coffee Museum restore coffee's position in the region.

(the article comes from Sina blog)