A pâtissière, eating around the world
![[Shanghai 上海] årgang](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DSC05552.jpg)
To discover årgang, you would have to wander down a residential alleyway on Changle Road and push open that half-closed white door at the very end. You would know that you are at the right place as soon as you hear jazz notes floating in the air, followed by that glorious, glorious smell of freshly brewed coffee.
![[Shanghai 上海] % Arabica](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_2135.jpg)
% Arabica opened in Shanghai just last week! The location is a tucked-away spot in Ferguson Lane, go while the line’s not yet crazy.
![[Shanghai 上海] O.P.S.](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/L1187618.jpg)
A tiny, lovely 10 sqm cafe serving up delicious and creative coffee.
![[Chengdu 成都] The Mondoli’s Blood](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/L1186707.jpg)
A cafe donned in a heavy dose of dark woods and black, furnished with bugs and skulls and taxidermied foxes. Good coffee.
![[Chengdu 成都] Small Company](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/L1186922.jpg)
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Small Company
Add: 1F Chengdu Times No. 1, Chengdu / 成都市時代一號一樓
Tel: 13688109298
Hours: ?
Price: ~35RMB/coffee
Visited: Aug 2017
Small Company is a mobile coffee trolley located inside Hug boutique at Chengdu Times No. 1. Hug itself is an interesting space worth exploring – situated on the 1st floor of an office building (very curious choice, indeed), it is a bright and airy fashion select shop with an interesting play on interior space. Take some time to wander and explore its many hidden nooks. As for Small Company, try a cup of their iced latte to cool down this summer heat, takeouts might also be a good idea if you happen to work close by.
說 Small Company 是一家咖啡店其實過于牽強，其實它是一個位于買手店 Hug 的小小 coffee trolley。Hug 本身就很有意思，棲身于辦公樓內，由于四面都是大片的玻璃的關系，空間感覺特別通透。內部設計高低錯落、動線迂回，二樓還有棟梁的店中店，展示著不少中國設計師品牌的作品。Small Company 的咖啡車位于一樓，小小一個很可愛，大片玻璃窗旁的位置充滿了空氣感。可以來喝一杯冰拿鐵降降溫，在附近工作的話也可以叫外送服務。
![[Chengdu 成都] Five Elephant Coffee](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/L1186812.jpg)
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Five Elephant
Add: 151-13 Shuangqiao Road, Chengdu / 成都市雙橋路151號附13號
Tel: (028) 6463 7466
Hours: 10am-7pm
Price: ~35 RMB/coffee
Visited: Aug 2017
Curiously, the famed Berlin coffee roaster Five Elephant has its one and only branch outside of Berlin in Chengdu, China, of all places. If you are wondering why, here’s a good read. While I wasn’t especially impressed by what I got that day (though it’s possibly because I used up my coffee quota at The Mondoli’s Blood earlier that day), it’s still a cute little shop worth visiting if you happen to be in the area.
柏林 Five Elephant 是非常有名的咖啡館，之前沒聽說在海外還有分店，沒想到居然在成都有一家。店裏的設計簡單舒服，用的自然是 Five Elephant 的豆子，雖然當天的出品沒有特別令人驚豔（也有可能是因爲在 The Mondoli’s Blood 已經用掉當天的咖啡配額了所以無法再 enjoy），不過小巧的店挺可愛，剛好在附近的話可以來窗邊坐坐。
![[Taipei 台北] Cafe Megane 眼鏡咖啡](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/L1170926.jpg)
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Cafe Megane 眼鏡咖啡
Add: No. 6, Lane 52, Siwei road, Taipei
Hours: 10am~8pm (closed on the last Wednesday of each month)
Website: coffeemegane.com
Price: 200~400 NTD/person
Visited: Dec 2016
I had already blogged about Cafe Megane years ago. This low-key Japanese-style coffee shop, hidden inside one of the small lanes of Siwei Road, has always been one of my favorites in Taipei. Revisiting it years later, it was comforting to find it mostly unchanged. The interior is warm with dark wood and yellow lighting, doesn’t fit more than 20 even when fully packed, and there are indeed glasses everywhere (“megane” means glasses in Japanese). The coffee here is perfect, the onigiri delicious, and I heard the matcha waffles are amazing as well. If you are fortunate enough to be living in or visiting Taipei, do find a quiet time to enjoy a cup of coffee here.
其實早在 2011 年剛開始寫部落格不久時，就介紹過眼鏡咖啡了。這家隱藏在台北四維路某個巷子裡的日系咖啡店，低調而有個性，一直是我很喜歡的地方。好幾年後再訪，安心的發現裏面一點也沒變。內部的裝潢是溫暖的原木和黃色燈光，店裡坐滿了也只能容納十幾個人，小小的店內到處都可以看到眼鏡的出沒。這裏的咖啡完美，飯團好吃，聽說抹茶松餅也做得極好。如果你很幸運的住在台北或去旅遊的話，絕對要挑個人少的時候來享受一杯安靜的咖啡。
![[Tokyo 東京] Onibus Coffee](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/L1165916.jpg)
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Onibus Coffee
Add: 2-14-1 Kamimeguro, Meguro, Tokyo / 東京都 目黒区 上目黒 2-14-1
Tel: +81-3-6412-8683
Hours: 9am-6pm
Website: www.onibuscoffee.com
Price: coffee around 500 yen
Visited: Oct 2016
This time in Tokyo, I visited Nakameguro for the first time. This neighborhood might seem a bit too quiet for those looking for the typical hustle and bustle of Tokyo, but if you, like I, enjoy wandering along small alleyways to discover the everyday life of the locals, you might really like this residential area.
這次來東京，第一次去了中目黑。喜歡熱鬧氣氛，想要盡情購物的人也許會覺得中目黑有些平淡，但如果你和我一樣是喜歡在安靜小巷中逛逛，感受東京當地生活氣氛的話，應該會很喜歡這邊。
And my reason for visiting Nakameguro was Onibus, a coffee shop and roaster sandwiched between a small park and train tracks. Its founder Sakao Atsushi, an architect-turned-barista, has been attracting coffee lovers from all over the world since he opened his first shop in Okusawa a few years ago, and he named the shop “Onibus” (which means public bus in Portuguese) for exactly this reason – to connect people via coffee.
會來到中目黑，是爲了 Onibus 這家咖啡店。老板坂尾篤史不僅在東京咖啡界是個名人，也紅到了國外 － 我到訪的當天就有從世界各地來喝咖啡的人，包括幾個從加州來的咖啡師。店名 Onibus 在葡萄牙語中是公車的意思，代表著坂尾先生想通過咖啡將人和人聯系起來的概念。
The shop offers espresso-based coffee brewed on a La Marzocco Linea PB, as well as drip coffee done with Hario V60s. For drip coffee, four choices of coffee beans are available: Ethiopia, Kenya, Colombia, and Guatemala. I went with the first.
店裡提供義式咖啡和手沖，義式用 La Marzocco Linea PB 做，手沖則是用Hario V60s。我點了手沖，在下面四種豆子中選了 Ethiopia。
![[Beijing 北京] Metal Hands](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/L1162052.jpg)
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Metal Hands
Add: No. 61 Wudaoying Hutong, Beijing
Tel: 15510533895
Hours: 9am-9pm
Price: coffee 26 RMB+
Visited: Sep 2016
Another cafe worth recommending in Beijing is Metal Hands. Just opened this July, this little coffee shop is settled in the busy Wudaoying Hutong, not far from Barista Coffee Roasters. Mr. Ding, the owner of the cafe, has apparently been in the China coffee scene for over 10 years, and is one of the first to dedicate his time to latte art (though he wasn’t in the shop on the day of my visit).
Metal Hands位于五道營，今年7月才開幕。聽說這裏的丁老板在咖啡圈已十幾年，是國內比較早開始玩拿鐵拉花的前輩，而且還是個格外低調的帥哥（不過我沒遇上本人）。
Metal Hands is not big. The elongated space includes a bar on the right, some seats on the left, and an inner corner with skylight. Concrete walls, wooden furniture, and fresh flowers for decoration. It’s not spacious by any means, but quite comfortable nonetheless.
Metal Hands 的店面不大，狹長的空間右邊是咖啡吧台，左邊是一排靠牆的位子，最裡面有頂著天窗、陽光充足的雙人卡座。乾淨的水泥牆、木色調桌椅、還有點綴的鮮花 － 絕對說不上寬敞，卻倒也舒適。
![[Hong Kong 香港] Elephant Grounds](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/L1160566.jpg)
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Elephant Grounds (Wanchai)
Add: 8 Wing Fung St. Wan Chai
Tel: +852 2778 2700
Hours: 8am-10pm
Website: www.elephantgrounds.com
Price: [coffee] 30-68 HKD
Visited: Aug 2016
Occupying this much coveted corner location on Wing Fung Street is Elephant Grounds, a coffee roaster local to Hong Kong. The open store front and warm wooden tones are immediately welcoming, and the interior is equally pleasant with handcrafted furniture by Start from Zero and a custom-made moss wall installation by local plant artist Quest Terrarium. Coffee, anyone?
某天在上環 gough street 逛街時，發現了藏在買手店 Woaw Store 背後 Elephant Grounds。同行的朋友告訴我這家咖啡很不錯，而且冰淇淋三明治非常有名。當天沒時間坐下來，不過幾天後又在灣仔遇見了它。
There is even a bowl of water for pets at the front, how thoughtful.
灣仔的分店比上環的大了許多，位于星街附近一個熱鬧的街角。開放的門面和溫暖的木頭色都非常吸引人，門口還放了給狗狗們的喝水碗。
