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The airy and light atmosphere in PARAS perfectly
goes with grey unpainted walls, minimalistic furniture and
tableware, creating a pretty instagramable place all to-
gether. Except for having a remarkable design, PARAS
Coffee is also proud of its menu as they offer really great
food with fresh ingredients-like eggs Benedict and quinoa
power bowls and so on-and light-roasted specialty coffee
such as SOE Yirgacheffe and meiji milk for espresso-based
milky coffees. The food offering is something that is re-
ally hard to find in Chinese coffee shops as the government
has pretty harsh requirements on size of the kitchen, its
equipment etc.
That is why one of the missions of this place-except
Interior design was made by Paul from MHPD in col- for providing a great coffee-is changing perception of a
laboration with the owner of the place, Mona, who studied coffee shop in China, it can be fun, artsy and with a re-
Fine Arts in London before she decided to open her own ally delicious food. There are many meanings of word
coffee shop. The original idea was to keep it comfortable “PARAS” in different languages-including a name of a
but also modern and fun, and design duo made it possible Pokemon-but creators of the place wanted to leave a space
by transforming traditional Chinese restaurant building for guests’ imagination so they can choose for themselves
with low ceilings and small windows into young and hip what PARAS means for them.
place with a lot of air and light.

Main trick that they used was putting mirrors

on the walls to reflect more light from windows

and see-through glass roof.

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