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Story and Photos by Coffee t&i Thailand

Hello Strangers Cafe

A Stylish Café

New cafés pop up on every street in the city, with each of them trying to highlight their own style to attract customers.

Among these competitive cafés, a café stands out in the limelight
for doing what they love instead of aiming for maximum profit. Mix it up and enjoy!
Hello Stranger Café serves their coffee in their signature skull Having recently celebrated its first year anniversary,
cup known and loved by both Thai and foreign customers. Hello Stranger Café has received more great feedback than
Tanakorn Sapakitkamjohn, the owner of Hello Strang- expected. The skull cups Tanakorn personally picked for his
ers Café, is an architect before he decided to begin his coffee ca- coffee menus also added extra personal touch to the café and
reer. He leased a 3-storey building for his architecture firm where attract more customers. “I initially bought the cups because I
he made the top 2 floors his office and the ground floor empty. “I like it, but it turned out that these cups actually attract custom-
love drinking coffee and the ground floor of my office building ers to the café. A photo of our cup was shared in a Hong Kong
was empty, so I had a talk with my partner about opening a café. fashion design book publisher’s Instagram, and we sometimes
My friend helped train me at his café, and when the opportunity get customers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea who saw us
arose I decided to do what I love,” Tanakorn said. Hello Stranger in the book.” This is the reason why many people would picture
Café reflects the style of Tanakorn and harmoniously combined a skull cup when they think about Hello Strangers Café.
industrial loft with old décor, using brick wall, antiques, and old There’s no denial that most people want at least some
collectibles like cool photos, toys, and rare books. profit from their business. Tanakorn might be a few exceptions
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