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Special Report

Asians Players in World Coffee Events

Between March 29th and April 1st in 2016, HOTELEX Shanghai was held successfully. As one of the hot-
test topics of this year, HOTELEX together with WCE brought six international coffee events, four of them were
international finals------World Latte Art Championship, World Cup Taster Championship, World Coffee Roast-
ing Championship and World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship appeared in China for the first time, this
definitely was an approval to the Chinese coffee market and the Chinese coffee industries.
2016 World Barista Championship

Berg Wu from Taiwan, China made his way to the cham-
pion. He started to compete in the WBC since the beginning of
2014, at the first time he got the seventh place which was the
best record in Taiwan’s history. He didn’t give up, this year he
competed in WBC again, with his excellent skills, he finally won
the first place. Japanese player Yoshikazu Iwase won the second
place. Also another player representing China, Ying Hu, who won
the first place in Chinese division in 2015, got the twelfth place.
These were the best results Chinese players have ever made in
this international event.
2016 World Latte Art Championship

Historically three Asians got the first three titles of the
competition! Um Paul from Korea, with his brilliant sleights
of skills, won the championship; Chinese player Qi Li got
the second place on his debut; Japanese player Minako won
the third place.
2016 World Brewer Cup

There were three Asian players in the final six, they
were Testu Kasuya who won the champion, Chad Wang from
Taiwan who was the second and Benny Wong who won the
fourth place.

2016 World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship

At the same time, both competing in two contests, Berg
Wu and Ying Hu were the real stars. Berg Wu didn’t let
anyone down, he won the third place expectantly, and Ying
Hu won the fifth.

Besides that, in the 2016 World Cup Taster Championship, Dongho Lee, a handsome youngman from Korea, won
the second place with his great performance. In the Roasting contest, Yuya Kawai from Japan, Seong Jun from Korea,
Crazy Veiser from China and Stanley Wu from Taiwan all had advanced into the final twelve, they were rep-
resenting the top levels of Asian roasting techniques. Additionally, these Asian coffee waves are sweeping
the European nations, even some European players start to look for Asian coaches. Next year, World Barista
Championship is going to take place in Seoul, this will be the second time in Asia after the one in Japan.

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