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Magic Beans

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The influence of the city’s Portuguese heritage is clearly evident in Macau, from its architecture and calcada paved footpaths, to its street names, unique fusion food and abundance of fine red wines.  And long before it ever became popular in China, Macau locals were enjoying their morning cup of coffee, while their counterparts just across the border were still drinking their traditional teas.  Recently Macau’s long love affair with coffee has seen a real boom, with a host of interesting new coffee shops springing up all around town, offering not just your average brews, but a wide variety of specialty coffees, single origin beans and of course artistic cappuccino designs.  Coffee culture certainly seems to be taking a hold and with that in mind, this month’s Closer Look chats with some of the big and smaller players in town and recommends some of the best places to get your daily hit of caffeine.
 
 
 
 
Macau is witnessing a coffee shop boom, with more and more cafes opening up across the city. But not all of them provide customers with different kinds of coffee beans to choose from, let alone training courses so that they can become baristas themselves. Yet this is exactly what Blooom Coffee House is doing. …
 
 
 
One of the major international players in the local coffee market is Pacific Coffee.  The company was started by Thomas Neir of Seattle, who went to Hong Kong in 1992 and noted a lack of European-style coffee houses in his adopted city. …
 
 
 
“Macau has a long-standing tradition of coffee appreciation thanks to its Portuguese roots. More and more consumers incorporate coffee as part of their lifestyle, and are educating themselves about coffee,” says Roger Staeheli, Country Manager of Nespresso Hong Kong and Macau. …
 
 
 
Having lived in Portugal all their lives, surrounded by a strong daily coffee culture, when Cristiana Figueiredo and her husband Rui first came to Macau, they felt that they couldn’t experience coffee in a way that they were used to. …
 
 
 
Just a five-minute walk from the most renowned landmark and busiest part of Macau – the Ruin’s of Saint Paul’s – is Rua dos Artilheiros where you can rarely spot any tourists at all. And nestled within this peaceful and calm ambiance is Café Philo. …
 
 
 
Coloane Village is one of the very few places in Macau that remains relatively untouched by the drastic changes of the city’s economy, with corrugated iron houses built decades ago still standing quietly on the narrow streets overlooking the river. …
 
 
 
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