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Pearls of Shanghai
Pearls of Shanghai

Picking best of the best in the oriental
coffee heaven.

C hina has stolen the spotlight ny, but when you live here it feels like a History

as one of the most promising
reality. Shanghai is a very fast paced city,
economies long time ago.
With its rapid economical it never stops and always evolves. In the Back in the 19th century,
past couple of years, Shanghai has be-
development, People’s Republic of China come one of the world’s coffee capitals, Shanghai was a modest
started importing more and more foreign with quality exceeding some major Eu- trading port that exploded
trends and products. Coffee is no excep- ropean capitals without the attitude of after being “opened” to the
world by Western imperial-
tion here. According to Coffee Interna- others. This year Coffee t&i prepared the ism. What became known as
tional Organization, coffee consumption whole Coffee Guide with more than 300 the Paris of the East laid the
in China has been increasing 16% per coffee shops in it. groundwork for what
year from 2004 to 2014; Euromonitor And even if you think about it, the Shanghai is today: an
also estimates that coffee consumption city has more than 300 coffee shops for unparalleled economic
powerhouse and megacity of
in China will increase by 18% per year each and everyone. Walking around the 24 million people.
until 2019..Even though the country is city and visiting all of 300 will take some
traditionally tea drinking, coffee market time, that is why we collected all the
is blooming in big cities of China. pearls from the guide to save your time
Someone said ‘If Beijing is China’s and give a short guide so you won’t get
traditional, responsible older brother, lost in the city of 24 million people. If
Shanghai is the fashionable, shopaholic you would like to know about more plac-
Wall Street younger sister who works es, go to our website, or you can also find
hard and plays even harder’, sounds fun- it in Editorial Hello.

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