Coffee and darkroom cheating laboratory "Moffee Coffee & Cafilm Room"

Photographer Li Changlin (right) and bean baker Zeng Mengmen (left) put coffee and darkroom into the container room.

"what do hand-made coffee and hand-made negatives have in common?" The owner of the cafe asked me, "it's just hands!" I answered without thinking, but the answer was "time, temperature, proportion, even wobbly gestures."... " Downstairs is a cafe and upstairs is a darkroom, which is originally about the same thing.

The pink pig poked out the iron window, and the experiment in the window attracted people's curiosity.

"MitchC Lab" is full of coffee aroma. If you smell it, you must say it is a cafe. "this is a Lab." The bean baker once said this and rubbed his eyes, and then I saw the small print "Moffee Coffee & Cafilm Room" under the sign, coffee and darkroom. This experiment is very interesting.

The relationship between brewing coffee and developing negatives, walk into the house and decrypt it immediately.

"the time of brewing coffee, the temperature of the water and the proportion are similar to the concept of developing negatives." Photographer Li Changlin said that the temperature for developing the film should be controlled at about 20 ℃, the development and fixing time should be pinched, and the process should be constantly shaking and turning the wrist, while the optimum water temperature for coffee is 85 to 95 ℃. It pays attention to brewing time and circle injection. This sudden idea attracted Zeng's interest, and two young people who had never met before hit it off and decided to open a laboratory.

Li Changlin built a darkroom laboratory on the second floor of the container house.

The laboratory space is also interesting, which is a scrapped container house. At the end of last year, 53 container stacks came out of the "Pingtung Qingchuang settlement Imax O Studio". Four 20-foot containers were taken out by "ManyC Lab". Downstairs are cafes, bean baking workshops, upstairs are darkrooms and classrooms, and the walls are still exhibition galleries. From combination to space is a kind of experiment.

The Gu Dong camera sat in the corner, like an old detective with a cold eye.

The two have a lot in common. Born in 1990, he fell in love with coffee since junior high school, studied leisure management at university, went to work in a chain cafe after graduation, and then went back to his hometown to study baked beans, full of coffee dreams. In 1988, Li Changlin pursued romantic classical photography, collecting a room full of antique cameras and negative film, which has now become a tasteful decoration in the store. The story of the young boss is packed in the container. I smiled. In fact, isn't life an experiment?

Once raised the door of the hand coffee test-bed, the details are fascinating.

Sitting at the bar, the view of the lab in front of me caught my eye. The hand coffee rack is made by welding pipe bends. It used to accurately measure coffee beans with an electronic scale, quickly grind them into powder, pick up a thermometer to confirm the water temperature, preheat the filter paper and the filter cup, and inject water evenly from the center of the filter cup. Without blinking, watching the coffee powder begin to expand, take a deep breath to judge the gradual release of acid, fragrance, sweetness and bitterness, meticulously like an experimenter.

"hand-made boutique coffee" provides ice and hot two kinds of flavor drinks. (150 yuan / group)

Bake a small amount of beans on the spot to keep the coffee fresh.

"madam special" (left) is a tea and milk drink disguised as a latte. (150 yuan / cup)

"would you like some hidden version of the special feature?" Zeng Shengmen showed a mysterious smile. This is her taste experiment, which is casually called "landlady's special tune". The comprehensive flower and fruit tea she blends is extracted and brewed by expresso, injected with fresh milk, and finally filled with fine milk bubbles. This cup looks like a latte, but the taste of tea milk is elegant and fragrant.

Stop clocking in with your cell phone and have a Polaroid!

In the afternoon, I soaked in the laboratory, thinking about the smell of the industrial space. "there are a lot of families around here, and the old doors and windows keep the container house from being hard." She opened the chatterbox to chat, and there was a whole row of yellowed photos on the wall, capturing the good time when the guests stopped. Only then did I discover the experiment of the old time. By the way, I heard that there would be a secret hand-developed film course in the house. It turns out that this laboratory is a time machine that allows people to travel freely between the old and the new.

Masked C Lab

Address: 77 Shengli Road, Pingtung City, Pingtung County (Pingtung Qingchuang settlement I Studio)

Tel: 08-732-3440

Business hours: 13PUR 00Mui 21RU 00, closed on Monday.