Some people say that half of Taiwan is the sea and half is a cafe. Taipei has been named one of the "Top Ten Best Coffee Tasting Places in the World" by the US Today newspaper, and is the only Asian city selected on the list. The cafe here not only exists in the singing of Chen Qizhen, but also in the chat and laugh of the guests who came Kangxi, and in the essays of Shu Guozhi , but also in the corners of the streets. Taipei has as many as 3,000 cafes, six times that of Shanghai, so for this trip to Taipei, I chose to visit the cafes in Taipei.
Coffee Sweet
This cafe is really hard to find for a road idiot like me. I walked around the landmark "No. 1 Floor 3, Lane 20, Lane 33, Section 1, Zhongshan North Road" on the typhoon on a Google map for three or four times. During this period, I passed by the "Erzhaotong No. 1" and "Slow Motion Cafe" that looked very good several times. After repeatedly confirming that it was not the cafe I was looking for, I finally saw a coffee shop with a strange pattern made of wire as a sign. After entering the door, I asked again with concern: Is this Coffee Sweet? Only after getting a positive answer dared to sit down.
I have heard that there is no photo taken here. There are only 30 cups of siphon coffee provided a day. The door is open at 3 pm on Saturday and often queue up. So as the second arrival in the store on Saturday afternoon, I am very careful. But in fact, I was too worried. The boss was very enthusiastic and just didn’t like to be photographed. There was no problem taking photos of customers’ own coffee, desserts and even the decorations in the store. I ordered a cup of Barnabasian geisha Juliet and the signature tiramisu , while waiting, I admired the boss using the siphon pot to make coffee.
Coffee Sweet's hand-brewed coffee and tiramisu The pictures in this article are taken by Mojito
The early bean grinding was completed by an assistant, which is the most exquisite bean grinding process I have ever seen. After grinding, he used a small ball to suck the powder on the beans over and over again before handing it to the boss. The boss put the coffee powder into the siphon pot. The cloth in the pot should be the cleanest I have ever seen, as white as new. During the production process, the boss kept debugging the alcohol lamp under the siphon pot, and manually holding it close to the far and wide throughout the process, which was no easier than hand-making coffee.
I was worried that the coffee with siphon was bitter after all, and it was not suitable for making shallow roast beans like geishas, but only after I got it, I realized that my knowledge was shallow. The siphon fully exerts the flavor inside, with sour, fruity, sweet and sweet taste, and a slight bitterness of siphon coffee. Combined with the sweetness and wine taste of tiramisu, the mouth is filled with ups and downs, and the window is raining. The warm coffee in the mouth is harmonious and unbelievable, and the aftertaste is endless.
I remembered the narrow-door coffee I drank in Tainan before. The boss who had been making coffee for 18 years said that using a siphon pot to make a single product must be better than using a hand-made pot to make it. I just smiled because the siphon coffee she made did not convince me. But at this Coffee Sweet cafe, I believe it. No matter how thin, slow or gentle the water flows I used to make the same beans, I never felt the stunning feeling of the many flavors spreading all over the mouth at that moment.
Fika Fika Cafe
This cafe is a Nordic internet celebrity store located in Yitong Park. Most independent cafes in Taipei are willful, opening at noon, sometimes closing early in the evening, and there are regular public holidays every week, but this internet celebrity store is particularly hardworking and has no public holidays. It opens at 8 a.m. to serve breakfast on weekdays.
Very literary Fika Fika
This is a cafe with a whole white tone, wooden tables and chairs, clean and tidy, and soft music, suitable for a day of quiet. Moreover, it is not just a sign of it. As Fika Fika Cafe, which has won the Nordic Roaster Award and is comparable to Norwegian Tim Coffee, the beans here are very good. I ordered a cup of signature brown sugar latte and bagel, and the latte milk was soaked. After the black sugar was added, the waiter carefully burned it with a small fire-breathing gun for a while, but it didn't seem too sweet when I was afraid of it. The sweetness was just enough for me to accept. As a signature snack, the bagel tastes very chewy with coffee. Unfortunately, I ate very full for breakfast and didn't eat it all.
When I left, I brought a pack of beans, which was sun-dried with Yegasche Figigosha. When I packed the beans, the waiter girl wanted to speak but stopped. In the end, she couldn't help asking me: "Miss, do you like our coffee?" I said I like it, it's very delicious. She said sadly, "But you haven't finished drinking." With that unique coquettish accent of Taiwanese girls, I felt guilty. After explaining, my little appetite was really stuffed with the hotel breakfast, and it was difficult to hold this cup of coffee and bagels, but I can't deny that they were really delicious, and I don't know if I could comfort her.
After returning home, I was busy with business. I didn’t find this packet of beans until a few days ago. I baked it on October 13th. I bought it on October 17th. While I opened it in annoyed manner, I thought that I had been dragging it for so long, and it must have ruined the best period of appreciation. Unexpectedly, the waiter girl put it very tightly with transparent tape at the ventilation valve. The moment she unpacked the packaging, the fragrance was so fragrant that no bean was oily. The feeling of rushing out was still very fresh and very delicious. It is hard to imagine that this is bean that has been stored for more than three months.
Zhanlu Cafe
When I first came to Taipei four years ago, the first cafe I went to was the National Taiwan University Hand-Chongqing Hall of Zhanlu Cafe. At that time, the guy from this cafe was handsome. No matter what kind of coffee he was drinking, he felt that the handsome barista brought his hand-brewing utensils to your table to demonstrate hand-brewing coffee and gentle explanations. Even if it was not delicious, it was worth the coffee.
Four years later, Zhanlu Cafe is still the handsome guy. I know that most of the hand-brewed coffee in this store is deep roasted, not the kind I like, but the deep roasted coffee beans are cool when making hand-brewed demonstrations. With the guy's chic movements, I am satisfied if I don't like to drink it, and I will not have any objections at all.
Zhanlu Cafe is beautiful and beautiful
Tai Dashou Chong Pavilion is located in section 3 of Roosevelt Road. Roosevelt Road is an area I like very much. The small shops in the literary and artistic shops include Jasmine second-hand bookstore, offline shops of the literary magazine "Little Days". Foodies specialize in finding Chen Sanding Frog Milk Tea Shop and Lanjia Kubao opposite the milk tea shop. You can also sneak into the National Taiwan University to eat small cabin muffins. You can go to the Mansion Night Market at night, and you can also go to the witch shop where singers such as Zhang Xuan, Soda Lu, and Chen Qizhen listen to songs. Because of their deep feelings for NTU, every time I come to Taipei, I choose to live in the nearby NTU store, and even bought a pillow from their home, which is really comfortable. So every time I would come over to Zhanlu to have a cup of coffee, which is a kind of obsession with loving National Taiwan University.
No. 6 Watergate Cafe
This cafe is hard to find on the Internet. I heard from a friend. He said that this cafe is Wan Fang’s favorite. When he came back to have coffee, he also encountered Ruby Lin and nearby and pushed the child by.
If he hadn't mentioned these celebrities, I wouldn't have come to this cafe on Tayou Road, because for tourists like me who only operate in the city, this cafe is really a bit remote. I couldn't find any business information about this cafe online. When I arrived for the first time after taking a taxi for half an hour, I was blocked by the note "Tuesday Closed" posted at the door. Okay, let's continue to come here on Wednesday.
Taxi drivers in Taipei love to chat. When I said that when I went to the No. 6 Water Gate Cafe, the driver said that he didn’t know about this cafe, but he must be very close to No. 6 Water Gate. After arriving, he could find it by taking me around. He also popularized the concept of Taipei Water Gate. It is probably because the water surface of fresh water increases during the rainy season, and these water gates will be closed according to the number to prevent the water from rushing into the city. For example, Dadaocheng is No. 5 Water Gate, and Tayou Road is No. 6 Water Gate.
This cafe is really facing No. 6 Water Gate. After entering the door, I was shocked by the beans on the blackboard. This place is simply a hand-made coffee museum. There are more than a dozen kinds of manor beans in Yegashefei alone, fifty or sixty kinds of beans on a blackboard, so drink a few more. I was confused about ordering a cup of 90+. The boss's wife had short hair, her voice was very light, and her movements were very gentle. After brewing me, a girl next to me asked Mozart from Costa Rica.She began to grind the beans patiently. Before I could taste my true words, I was so sweet that the powdered taste penetrated into my nose. "Boss, boss, I want Mozart in the next cup!" I couldn't help but place an order.
Since I have been drinking the truth, I want to tell the truth. The 90+ beans are the kind that tastes good no matter how you cook it, but Mozart is baked as a Costa Rican raisin honey, which is so sweet and amazing, completely better than all the Costa Rican honey I drink on the mainland.
No. 6 Watergate Cafe with a blackboard bean
Later I found an interview with Wan Fang on the Internet, and there was a passage about this cafe: "The first time I really met hand-made coffee was in the predecessor of this store, the cherry red one. That was an unforgettable experience that changed my living habits... I like to sit on the stairs at the door. The sky can be seen very big, and at night it is a completely different scenery." I didn't sit on the steps at the door, but when I sat on the bar, I could see tamsui, with a wide view, and the weather was good, I should be able to see the sunset.
Those coffee shops related to movies
Taiwanese directors love to open coffee shops. From the Cai Mingliang coffee corridor to the karen time in Guangdian Taipei, there are also Mr. Blackbird of Cai Kangyong , Taimali Cafe in Huang Chaoliang , and the unique business of Wei Desheng , you can see traces of movies in it.
This time I sat quietly in a unique business for a long time. The background music was played by the interlude of Director Wei's latest movie. Li Zhexin's photography exhibition was quietly placed on the big screen, with the actors' signatures posted on the refrigerator, and Director Wei's studio downstairs. This place is not like a cafe, a cabinet full of brochures for literary and artistic activities for free access, and other places are like a grocery store with a strong antique flavor, selling clothes, hats, baskets, and all kinds of old things. It seems hard to imagine that this director can shoot both Cape No. 7, Seedkbar, and 52 Hz I Love You movies with a very large span.
