Korean Style
Macau’s economic boom has attracted a number of international brands, and the most recent to set up shop in Macau is the Korean franchise Tom N Toms. Established in 2001, it was the first Korean coffee brand to have its own roasting factory. Currently, it has outlets in the United States, China, Australia, Thailand and Singapore. With the slogan “Refresh your body and soul”, Tom N Tom’s aims to provide some unique services to differentiate itself from its competitors, including providing meeting rooms in some of its Korean branches. The first Tom N Toms shop in Macau is located near Tap Seac. Apart from offering different types of coffee, it has many bakery products and non-coffee beverages as well, and is planning to extend its food offerings for customers in the future.
Daily Grind
Situated far down the quiet back street of Estrada de Lai Chi Vun in Coloane Village near the old ship building yards, Hon Kee Coffee, is a legendary coffee spot in Macau. Hon Kee’s coffee style is a rather traditional local one that uses regular instant coffee powder sold in the supermarket. But what is so special about its coffee is the brewing process. Instead of simply adding hot water into the coffee powder and giving it a few casual stirs, the owner of Hon Kee, Mr Leong, first mixes the coffee powder with some sugar and a little bit of hot water and proceeds to grind it profusely before adding more water. Some say he can stir the coffee as many as 400 times in a minute and the result is a cup of coffee with an unusually smooth texture.
Made in Macau
Coffee consumption in Macau is certainly increasing but you may not know that Macau is also a coffee producer. While obviously coffee beans are not grown here, the locally-operated SIM coffee factory imports, roasts, grinds and packages coffee both for local sale and export to China. Established in 2008, the factory is located in the Zhuhai Macau cross border industrial zone works with a number of large international brands, helping them to produce and export their coffee products to China. SIM also has its own brand of coffee, Ola Cafe which is sells here in local supermarkets, and supplies coffee to a number of hotels and restaurants. The company has a joint venture agreement with IMO coffee, producing a variety of different flavoured coffee sachets for IMO espresso machines. And their latest product is a range of coffee bags for a convenient filtered coffee experience.
MACAU
01 | Single Origin
19, Rua de Abreu Nunes
02 | Nana cafe lounge
116, Rua de Londres
03 | Chill Cafe
239, Rua do Almirante Sergio
04 | CAfe Voyage
90, Avenida Leste do Hipódromo
05 | Candy Cafe
46A, Avenida do Ouvidor Arriaga
06 | L'Occitane Cafe
29, Largo do Senado
07 | Cafe Mart
8, Rua do Ultramar
08 | D'Light Dessert Cafe
90, Rua da Ribeira do Patane
09 | MS Blossom Café
1, Praça de Ponte e Horta
10 | Oumen Café
12 Travessa de S. Domingos, Macau
11 | Communal Table
Rua Formosa 29C
12 | LEMON LEMON Café
Rua de Santa Clara No.5 H, Macau
13 | Barista’s Playground Macau
15, Praça de Ponte e Horta
14 | Puffin Café
16A, Rua de Santa Antonio, Macau
| BLOOOM
5, Rua de Horta e Costa
16 | Café Seis
63B, Avenida da Ouvidor Arriaga
17 | Café Philo
Rua dos Artilheiros No.17B, Macau
18 | Donkey Coffee
12, Rua Nova de São Lazaro
TAIPA 氹仔
19 | La Kaffa
557, Avenida Olimpica
20 | The Blissful Carrot
79, Rua Direita Carlos Eugenio
21 | Lax Cafe
120, Avenida de Guimaraes
22 | Irish Coffee Shop
131, Rua de Coimbra
23 | Passione Café
49 Rua Direita Carlos Eugenio
24 | Taipa Café
Shop B, The Manhattan, Rua de Nam Keng
25 | Cafe Kokoro
41, Rua Direita Carlos Eugenio
Cuppacoffee
Rua de Fernao Mendes Pinto No.104-106, Macau
17 | Il Café
319A, Rua de Seng Tou