#Coffee trip | Terra in #Macau ( #barista #Travel #Aisa #coffeeshop #photography )
Terra is a small coffee shop in Macau, (a more European style compare to US, well, should say most the coffee shop in Macau is quite small in size). The shop is up on a hill but not so far from the downtown area. Normally not so crowded, but they do have a pretty good business that people come every now and than.
As the shop is pretty small, they have only couple small table, or customers can sit on the bar facing the barista or the street. I choose to sit and talk with my barista, I do that whenever I have a chance to.
It was a pleasant experience sit close to the barista, and just like having chat to a friend and enjoy the hospitality.
I visited the shop when the owner is still preparing, warming up the espresso machine, and dial in the grinder. He did that every day, weighing the beans and adjust the grinder, carefully achieving the perfect time brewed espresso. I waited about 10min and got a great cup.
On thing the barista did different than what shop in US didn't, he will taste the coffee first (of course with a separate cup.) and make sure the coffee is good to the standard before serve to the customer. He's really seriously checking it, he re-do one of my cup because the batch of bean was not to his standard, and re-do with a new batch of bean.
So there is, one of the best coffee shop experience I ever have, which it does not have a fancy space, but just a small coffee shop up on a hill.
#Coffee trip | Terra in #Macau ( #barista #Travel #Aisa #coffeeshop #photography )
Terra is a small coffee shop in Macau, (a more European style compare to US, well, should say most the coffee shop in Macau is quite small in size). The shop is up on a hill but not so far from the downtown area. Normally not so crowded, but they do have a pretty good business that people come every now and than.
As the shop is pretty small, they have only couple small table, or customers can sit on the bar facing the barista or the street. I choose to sit and talk with my barista, I do that whenever I have a chance to.
It was a pleasant experience sit close to the barista, and just like having chat to a friend and enjoy the hospitality.
I visited the shop when the owner is still preparing, warming up the espresso machine, and dial in the grinder. He did that every day, weighing the beans and adjust the grinder, carefully achieving the perfect time brewed espresso. I waited about 10min and got a great cup.
On thing the barista did different than what shop in US didn't, he will taste the coffee first (of course with a separate cup.) and make sure the coffee is good to the standard before serve to the customer. He's really seriously checking it, he re-do one of my cup because the batch of bean was not to his standard, and re-do with a new batch of bean.
So there is, one of the best coffee shop experience I ever have, which it does not have a fancy space, but just a small coffee shop up on a hill.