New Years Bash

December 31st, New Years Eve, marked one full year of coffee operations. We celebrated as any coffee shop would.

Customers enjoying our free coffee tasting. The coffees available were Colombian Suppremo, Ethiopia Jimma, and our Holiday Blend.

As far as we know we hosted the Kunming's first Barista Championship and we opened it to any Kunming area barsitas. 10 competed by preparing one shot of espresso and one cappuccino for our three judges.

We are hoping to raise awareness of the art of coffee making as well as encourgaging local baristas to improve their trade.

Less of an art and more of a science was our Chicago style Deep Dish Pizza Eating Competition. 12 competed for the rights to pizza eating champion.

1 KG of deep dish pizza left a few more than overwhelmed.

Some of the Chicago Coffee Crew

12:00 AM 01/01/2009

A English Corner Miracle. Love proposed by two of our English Cornerians who met a few months ago through our Tuesday Night English corners.

2008 Kunming Barista Champion- Doug (top left) 2008 Kunming Barista Runner-up- Carol (top right) 2008 Kunming Pizza Eating Champion- Guo Chao with a time of 5 minutes & 23 seconds (bottom left) 2008 Kunming Pizza Eating Runner-up- Jeff (bottom right)

Coffee Tasting - 9.1.2008

Our first coffee tasting included coffees from Kenya, Costa Rica, & Indonesia. The event attracted over 40 at what had to have been Kunming's first public coffee tasting.

Students, near-by residents, friends, and some of our staff all joined the tasting. After some coffee knowledge was dispersed participants had to blind taste the 3 coffees and guess which coffee was which.

6 guessed all three correctly but everyone seemed to have fun and enjoy this new experience.

None more than our favorite coffee taster.