The "gas station" during the trip of the New Zealand Cafe

new Zealand, an island country surrounded by the South Pacific Ocean, is inextricably linked with its neighbor Australia and is also a famous high-end tourist destination in the southern hemisphere. There is a natural environment that claims to be "100% pure" and a world-famous extreme sports and adventure tourism resource--most of the tourist information about this country is described around these two aspects. However, many people who have been to new Zealand will also miss the coffee there. Coffee in new Zealand is a popular drink for civilians. No matter in a big city or a small town, you can drink a cup for a few dollars in a corner coffee shop. The taste is strong, the cup and the flower are exquisite, even not inferior to some star hotels in China. This kind of folk "coffee culture" also nourishes new Zealand in a certain sense---super "positive" coffee fragrance wafts among clean and beautiful urban landscapes, always making people lazy. No wonder the locals always look relaxed. Young people wear headphones and don't ask about the world. They lie on the lawn by the lake for an afternoon.

For people who live at a stressful pace all the year round, coffee in new Zealand is more like a sign of a different state of life. Indeed, this is a state of envy. As a tourist, holding a cup of "Xiaoxin" coffee in a daze is undoubtedly the most comfortable thing on the journey.

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Traveler's "gas station" new Zealand is the creator's lucky child. All the natural resources here seemed to have been carefully "filtered". The sky was blue, the lake was blue, and the night sky was boundless. Everywhere was like a large blue mirror, and almost no flaws could be found. Every year from November onwards, new Zealand enters late spring and early summer. Now it is sunny and beautiful summer has officially begun.

Christchurch, the largest city in the South Island of new Zealand, is a world-class "garden city", claiming to be "the most British like city outside the UK", and it is also the gateway to Antarctica. Christchurch has many national parks, which are planted with flowers and trees of various colors and shapes. Every spring and summer, there is a boundless scene of spring. If you like to hang out in the park, you will definitely be associated with cafes--Christchurch is distributed with large and small coffee shops, almost walking around, and the old "flat and beautiful" things are here.

3.5 A cup of coffee in new Zealand yuan is only a dozen yuan in RMB, which is the average price of a cup of coffee in most coffee shops in new Zealand. Such cheap coffee, but the quality is no less than any star hotel in the country, it seems unbelievable to say. The cafes in new Zealand not only serve different types of coffee, but also provide cheap meals. For tourists, if they don't have to eat a big meal, a cup of hot coffee with a hamburger can solve the lunch problem on the road, which is cheap and delicious, warm coffee and lingering fragrance.

Everywhere in Christchurch and the South Island, even in small towns with a population of a few hundred, there are bound to be coffee shops, some of which are concentrated in a coffee street. The shop usually sells simple desserts, but the coffee is definitely produced, even if it is only a small facade. Larger coffee shops offer dishes that combine regional specialties, such as lamb, venison, salmon, crayfish, oysters, kiwi and more. For travelers, in addition to the car to refuel along the way, these scattered cafes are also another "gas station", walking you will find that gradually inseparable from it.

The most persistent coffee lovers

A new Zealand couple living in Wellington spent three years touring the country to sip coffee, compiling an exhaustive guide to the best cafes in new Zealand, and creating a new Zealand coffee guide website that even included a map showing where to find the best cafes. This shows how much new Zealand people love coffee. According to statistics, new Zealand ranks first in the world in the number of coffee roasters per capita, and in the past decade, new Zealand coffee masters have been at the forefront of world competitions. Over the past few decades, a "coffee revolution" has affected almost all new Zealand people. More and more new Zealand people love coffee and even become "coffee connoisseurs". As a result, the coffee industry has grown rapidly. New cafes and coffee roasters have sprung up. Some of them have opened in the streets and shopping malls of big cities, and some have moved into small towns on the outskirts of cities. Almost without exception, business is booming. Baristas are doing their best to make perfect coffee, which makes new Zealand coffee more and more sophisticated and people's tastes more and more sophisticated.

The reason is that new Zealand people like to eat in cafes, where they enjoy life, enjoy time, read books and newspapers slowly. This scene is almost the same as drinking morning tea and reading newspapers in old Guangzhou, but it is a little more leisurely. In new Zealand, most of them are young people, not retired and idle old people. For this reason, many coffee shops offer free Wi-Fi, because as long as guests sit down, the boss wants you to sit as long as possible. In order to drink their favorite coffee, some new Zealand people even go a long way. Their goal may not be the bourgeois cafe you imagine, but some roadside stall coffee shops. Some mobile stalls even have a coffee machine and a barista, still welcoming guests. Perhaps only here, drinking coffee is an act without any additional meaning and purpose, just like hungry to find a favorite restaurant to eat a delicious meal, that's all.

Don't miss "White Coffee"-Flat White

Although new Zealand is also famous for its wines, there are many good wineries in the region, and winery tours are common, the local coffee culture seems to be more attractive by contrast. Many cities offer tours dedicated to fine dining and wine, as well as private guided tours to the best cafes. If you meet a visitor who is particularly interested in coffee, the tour company can even provide a detailed explanation of new Zealand coffee terms. new Zealand coffee has a wide variety. Espresso is the basis of all coffee varieties, with the strongest aroma and a lasting aftertaste. On this basis, you can drink cappuccino, latte, macchiato, black coffee and other varieties in any coffee shop, while flat white("white" coffee) is considered to be the first of the new Zealand people, it is a less milk brewing coffee, using milk that can be framed into texture, famous in the world coffee field.

Many new Zealand and Australia went to Britain and the United States to open cafes in big cities like London and New York. Their direct role was to spread the reputation of "Little White Coffee" in Britain and the United States and to be welcomed by more and more foreigners. The reason why we have such a good impression of coffee in new Zealand has nothing to do with the local climate. new Zealand boasts not only four seasons in the year, but even four seasons in the day-morning like winter, noon like spring, afternoon like summer, evening as cool as autumn. Even at the turn of spring and summer, it is quite cold in the morning and night. Some sightseeing activities, such as hot air balloon rides, usually start before dawn. At this time, they are often shivering with cold. Even if it is noon when the sun comes out, there is always a feeling of chilly spring. In this climate, it's no wonder that a hot cup of coffee is what travelers look forward to most of the day.