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Anti-ennui recipe: crabs, salt coffee, Mao paperweights

Barista makes sea salt coffee at Taiwan's 85C coffee shop chain.Taiwan invents nothing. Businesspeople shun the risks. Office workers in conventional creative fields can’t stand standing out. Government officials panicked by recession preach "innovatio... ...full story at Laowiseass

from Laowiseass on Wed, Apr 08 2009

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15 Jul 07 visit Ni hao, this is a Chinese rip-off.  »  Sinocidal The following is a true story. Friend Coffee Shop Manager lounges in his deep leather chair.  Before him lie the disparate elements of his new promising Starbucks-style coffee shop: Atmospheric Just Like Seattle Coffee Shop Number 47.  It is his job ...
27 Mar 09 visit LV Coffee & Tea Shop in Shanghai  »  All Roads For those of you who are fashionably conscious, are looking for a cup of tea or coffee in the Jing An temple area, you should try the new LV tea coffee shop Louies Vuitton, perhaps you have seen his bags near the Science and Technology museum (the hub of...
25 Sep 09 visit A trademark war over coffee creamer in Yunnan  »  Danwei Has Coffee-Mate (咖啡伴侣) become genericized in Chinese? Go Kunming looks at a spat over Nestle's trademarked brand of coffee creamer: The Yunnan Coffee Industry association is standing behind Hogood, insisting that Nestlé should not co...
24 Sep 07 visit New coffee shop replacing Starbucks in Forbidden City  »  People's Daily A new coffee shop opened last week inside the Palace Museum, located exactly at the same place where a controversial Starbucks coffee shop had situated for seven years. With wooden tables, wooden chairs and pictures featuring Chinese cu ...
01 Mar 09 visit China makes breakthrough in coffee exports  »  People's Daily China will export coffee directly to the United States in April, according to a deal signed between the ECUM Coffee Group and Yunnan Hogood Co. Ltd.. In a statement Saturday, Hogood said it will export 240 tonnes of coffee beans per month to...

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