Cafes on Taipei Street can be seen everywhere.

Literati like to express their daily whereabouts in this sentence: "I'm not at home, I'm on my way to xxx." In Taipei, this "× ×" is not a library, a gallery, a bookstore or a bar, but must be a coffee shop.

If you take a closer look, you will find that apart from 7-ELEVEN, Family, Laierfu and other community convenience stores, the cafes with the largest number of streets and alleys in Taipei are large and small. Needless to say, Starbucks, an American coffee chain, is almost 50 meters each and 100 meters one. It is like the living room of a neighbor familiar to people in Taipei. You can always put your feet in and have a leisurely drink. In addition, coffee shop chains such as Brown, Danti and Yee Ke have also set up shop everywhere in Taipei, and their business is very good. There are more than 1000 coffee shops in Taipei, which is said to be the city with the highest coffee shop density in the world. However, for people in Taipei who really love coffee, none of these coffee chains are on their shortlist. They often hang out in those sex coffee shops. If we choose according to the criteria of "sedentary, high quality coffee, and distinctive decoration" by the author of "Coffee impression in Taipei" and the water bottle of Coffee Dahrens, there will probably be 200 to 300 such coffee shops.

In the Internet era, a smooth wireless network and adequate power outlets are essential for a sedentary cafe, because many coffee shoppers bring laptops with them when they come to spend time in the cafe. At the same time, it is best to have some good books in the cafe. Drinking coffee while surfing the Internet or reading while drinking coffee is a common sight in Taipei cafes. "sometimes you don't have to have the best coffee, and you don't need very good food, as long as the coffee is made fresh, providing refreshments or food that can fill your stomach, plus good air and opposite music, the environment is not too noisy, you can read a book quietly, or browse casually on your laptop." The water bottle said.

With a large number of cafes, the quality of coffee in each cafe is inevitably mixed. The real owners of good cafes in Taipei will be coffee connoisseurs themselves. they often open coffee shops because they love coffee, so not only do they have to choose coffee beans according to their own taste, but they also roast coffee beans themselves. One weekend I visited the popular GeorgeHouse Cafe. The boss in a white shirt and apron first asked me about my taste preference, then ordered a Nicaraguan coffee. Soon the strong aroma of the coffee spread with the sound of ground beans. The waiter immediately came over with freshly ground coffee powder to ask me to identify the color and smell, and described in detail the features of this coffee and the main points of roasting. In this way, the experience of drinking good coffee and gaining coffee knowledge is very new to me, and it is said that as long as you enter a cafe with good coffee beans as the selling point, as long as you are interested, the boss will share his coffee tasting experience with you and go on and on for a long time.

I often think about passing coffee shops with strange names, such as "can't sleep Cafe", "pick up a Cat Cafe on the Road", "Green fun Club Caf é", "Frog Cafe" and so on, and then have the desire to go in and find out. The owners of these cafes are usually full of personality, and the interior decoration design is also unique and creative. For example, some stores have a huge bean dryer taller than people; some use tapered coffee cups; some stores have cats scurrying around Some owners say that the books in the store can be read or taken away on the spot, but when you really choose three, he says that he likes the first one very much, the second he wants to collect, and the third he is reading. Anyway, you can't buy them. You can't go back on your word and make you laugh or cry. However, it is this personality or eccentricity that attracts the customers who match it.

Taipei cafes are multifarious and open more and more. Why do people in Taipei love cafes so much? As far as water bottles are concerned, it was first because it was easy to rest. "at that time, I was often out on business, and I didn't want to go back halfway home, and the coffee shop was an ideal place to rest." Immersed in a cafe for a long time, he felt that every time he stayed in an unfamiliar cafe, he felt like an adventure. "he felt the owner's ingenuity and amorous feelings, as if he had made a trip and walked into another world."

Kuo Cheng-pei, another coffee expert, likes the mash-up style of the Taipei Cafe. "the charming cafe that serves exquisite French desserts unexpectedly plays Japanese banjo tunes, and there are cafes that always enjoy mouthful American hamburgers, but the melodies of the Argentine tango flow in the late-night air." Mash-up brings inclusiveness, and this is what Liu Yicheng, chairman of Taiwan Youyou Card Co., Ltd., likes most: "the cafe in Taipei warmly embraces singles." it also enthusiastically embraces lovers, friends, all kinds of life styles and all kinds of moods, so it has become the spiritual refuge of all kinds of people. "

Taipei comic book writer Aquarius Whale is addicted to coffee. She thinks she goes to the cafe not so much to drink coffee as to read coffee time. "for example, appreciate the boss's personality arrangement, feel the sun shining through the window in the afternoon, listen to the sound of a book flipping, observe a cat passing by the window lattice, a couple laughing with eyebrows or predicting a breakup with silence, and the joy of getting together with three or five friends."

In modern Taipei, the pace of life is fast, the pressure of work is great, and more and more people are unmarried and infertile. In addition to providing mood poems and accidents, cafes are also a good place to relieve pressure, escape, talk, and find like-minded friends. I think asking a thousand people in Taipei may tell me a thousand reasons to fall in love with cafes, which have contributed to the large number and ever-changing style of cafes in Taipei. In a sense, cafes are like a kaleidoscope showing the way people live in Taipei, so if you want to learn more about Taipei, you might as well push open the doors of Taipei cafes on a leisure weekend and follow the fragrance of coffee into the unique atmosphere of Taipei.