Coffee spreads all over the world

In the Yemeni port of Moka, when coffee is shipped out, it often needs to be protected by heavy troops. At the same time, Yemen has also taken various measures to prevent coffee saplings from being taken out of the country.

Coffee enters Asia

The Arabs failed to spread coffee in Asia, but the Dutch did! In the process of colonization, they grew coffee in Malaba, India, and brought it to Batavia in what is now Java, Indonesia, in 1699. The Dutch colonies once became the main supplier of coffee in Europe. At present, Indonesia is the fourth largest coffee country in the world.

Coffee enters Europe

Venice merchants first brought coffee to Europe in 1615. By 1683, Europe's first coffee shop opened in Venice, and the most famous was the Floran Cafe, which opened in San Marco in 1720 and is still doing brisk business today.

Coffee enters America

Coffee became popular in South America as a fashionable drink in 1688, followed by coffee houses in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other North American cities. Today, both the New York Stock Exchange and the Bank of New York in the famous Wall Street financial district start in coffee shops. Coffee was first grown in America in the 1820s, and it was the Dutch who first spread coffee to Central and South America. Coffee spread from the Dutch colonies to French Guiana and Brazil, and then by the British to Jamaica. By 1925, growing coffee had become a tradition in Central and South America. In the same year, Hawaii also began to grow coffee, which is the only coffee producer in the United States, and Hawaiian coffee is one of the best coffee in the world. To date, Brazil is already the world's largest coffee producer, accounting for about 30 per cent of global coffee production, while Colombia is the second largest coffee producer, accounting for about 12 per cent of global coffee production.

Coffee enters China

According to historical records, coffee was first planted in Taiwan in 1884, which opened the prelude to the development of coffee in China. The earliest coffee cultivation in mainland China began in Yunnan. At the beginning of the 20th century, a French missionary brought the first coffee seedlings to Binchuan County in Yunnan Province. In the next hundred years, coffee cultivation and consumption took root in the vast territory of China. In recent years, the development of coffee cultivation and consumption in China has attracted more and more attention of the world. As a part of the western way of life, with the growth of coffee culture, coffee has officially entered the Chinese family and life; it has become a new consumption fashion for urbanites, decorated with urban customs. For hundreds of years, the habit of drinking coffee has not only spread from the West to the East, but has even become an unstoppable popular and romantic trend!