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CAFES
A Cumulative Café List to Help Rediscover Your Coffee Appreciation
I was 21 years old, when
I noticed my brewing lifelong love affair with coffee. The
mermaid-logoed, auburn-colored, pint-sized, smooth-finished go to drink settled
its Iced Caramel Macchiato rapport with me, back when I was a
neophyte wage earner. During those initial years of trying learning the ways of
the world, I unearthed this habit of sitting 1:1 with my manager-turned-friend
in this unassuming Starbucks café corner, beside this floor to ceiling glass
window, and observe the overexcited city of Manila unfold right before us. As I
neatly exchanged ideas about work dreams and non-work daydreams over cups of
coffee, my fervor for the caffeine taste became deeply rooted.
Ahhh, good memories.
From learning how to brew, trying out latte
art, sipping hot coffee by the beach, discovering unconventional types of coffee
fixes, tasting the best coffee in the universe ---- to meeting cool coffee shop
owners, and spending quality time in life changing coffee places, just when I
think that I have brewed it all, there comes another coffee shop that would
give me another kind of caffeinated kick of
inspiration. Coffee
continues to allow me to have that sense of gratitude and wonder towards the
world.
To coffee hop, at your own
pace, is an idea that’s neither unconventional nor unheard of, I am sure of
that, right? It’s spending a large portion of your day somewhere in a coffee
shop, or visiting as many coffee places as possible. It’s a to-do activity if you’d like to get your juices heightened up,
and discover a different side of culture - from a place where ideas,
conversations, and communities get hitched altogether! We are all for that
sense of taste, aroma, and double shot approval.
Be it beans, bagels, donuts,
espressos, cups, au laits, mugs, hipster furnitures, alternative spaces, cool
decors, and unlimited WIFIs; or whether it’s in the crazy streets of Bangkok,
or the chaotic avenues of Manila, Amsterdam, Singapore, Paris, or any place
near you, the cafe-coffee scene has transformed into one of the
best, most favorite, and top things to do, which both locals and expats prefer
to spend their time on.
So yes, this is not a definitive expert guide of some sort, and certainly this list is just the best of the best only
in my book. I have mustered the courage to visit more than 100+ coffee
shops, and drank more than 1000+ cups of mochas, americanos, cappuccinos, and
frappes. These are my coffee favored places which hopefully you can try and
experience for yourself. Look for your
favorite drink, and special spot - who knows, you just might get that climactic
caffeine celebration.
And yes, let me know if you need
your café to be reviewed, or if you need a coffee buddy. :-)
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Perhaps my day job as your next Mark Zuckerberg is inclining me to be fond of receiving emails from readers? Oh yes, highly unlikely on the Mark Z part, but I kid you not about the receiving emails part! :-) But yes, can I just say that I appreciate the effort it takes to get connected, much more, if it means getting emails from like-minded people like you, just to say hi, hello, what’s up! Do feel free to drop me an email at bowdywanders@gmail.com
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