Why Is Yunnan Coffee Suddenly Everywhere? We Spoke to One Family Behind It.

Try brewing Yunnan coffee in Lijiang, with Old Town charm and mountain views.

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Coffee Workshops in Lijiang

Try brewing Yunnan coffee in Lijiang, with Old Town charm and mountain views.

This is definitely a must do experience if you are in Lijiang and love coffee! 

I've done a few coffee tasting experiences before but this one is really cool because I got to roast my own coffee beans for the first time. Plus, the space itself is gorgeous. Phoebe's family designed and built it - there's a big garden, cats wandering around and snow mountains in the background. It's hard not to love this place.

What's interesting is that Yunnan's specialty coffee scene is relatively new (only about 10 years old), and Phoebe's family were one of the OG's who switched from commercial instant coffee to exploring specialty coffee in Yunnan back in 2018 - so it was pretty cool to learn from them.

We got to smell many different beans from different regions across Yunnan and learn why they all taste so different (climate, altitude, rainfall etc). We learnt from Phoebe that some tea plantations in Pu'er are also growing coffee because its more profitable, and the result is a very unique tea like quality to coffee which you can't find anywhere else in the world. 

Then, we did a proper tasting where we picked 3 different beans (including the tea-like coffee bean) to try. It's all pour over style and Phoebe explains what makes each one special. We could tell how much Phoebe loves what she does. She's very fluent in English (studied in the States) and explains everything so clearly and patiently, no matter what level of coffee knowledge you come in with. She also served us delicious homemade pastries to go along! It was pumpkin season when we went so we had a yummy pumpkin cheesecake.

Lastly, manual roasting. Phoebe's dad believes manual roasting is far superior to the high-tech machine roasting where everything is controlled by graphs and data, In fact, it's a requirement for all his barista students to master manual roasting before anything else. So we got to do it ourselves - hand roasting for 10 mins under Phoebe's guidance. She then bagged them up and we got to write our names on it.

This is something I'll be recommending to all my friends if they come to Lijiang :)

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Yunnan Specialty Coffee Omakase + Roasting | Cosy Garden Space

This is definitely a must do experience if you are in Lijiang and love coffee! 

I've done a few coffee tasting experiences before but this one is really cool because I got to roast my own coffee beans for the first time. Plus, the space itself is gorgeous. Phoebe's family designed and built it - there's a big garden, cats wandering around and snow mountains in the background. It's hard not to love this place.

What's interesting is that Yunnan's specialty coffee scene is relatively new (only about 10 years old), and Phoebe's family were one of the OG's who switched from commercial instant coffee to exploring specialty coffee in Yunnan back in 2018 - so it was pretty cool to learn from them.

We got to smell many different beans from different regions across Yunnan and learn why they all taste so different (climate, altitude, rainfall etc). We learnt from Phoebe that some tea plantations in Pu'er are also growing coffee because its more profitable, and the result is a very unique tea like quality to coffee which you can't find anywhere else in the world. 

Then, we did a proper tasting where we picked 3 different beans (including the tea-like coffee bean) to try. It's all pour over style and Phoebe explains what makes each one special. We could tell how much Phoebe loves what she does. She's very fluent in English (studied in the States) and explains everything so clearly and patiently, no matter what level of coffee knowledge you come in with. She also served us delicious homemade pastries to go along! It was pumpkin season when we went so we had a yummy pumpkin cheesecake.

Lastly, manual roasting. Phoebe's dad believes manual roasting is far superior to the high-tech machine roasting where everything is controlled by graphs and data, In fact, it's a requirement for all his barista students to master manual roasting before anything else. So we got to do it ourselves - hand roasting for 10 mins under Phoebe's guidance. She then bagged them up and we got to write our names on it.

This is something I'll be recommending to all my friends if they come to Lijiang :)

Yunnan is great, I'll come again next time.
 Record a super wonderful family coffee homestay
 First time hand-roasting coffee beans
 First time drinking iron kettle coffee
 First time painting a Thangka
 The climate here is so good that I haven't even had lip 
 inflammation
 Yunnan is truly wonderful
 I will definitely come back next time

Yunnan is great, I'll come again next time.
Record a super wonderful family coffee homestay
First time hand-roasting coffee beans
First time drinking iron kettle coffee
First time painting a Thangka
The climate here is so good that I haven't even had lip 
inflammation
Yunnan is truly wonderful
I will definitely come back next time

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