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then, “People in those days like us had no choice.
As you put me here, all I could do was to do a good
job.”
In fact, he initially chose to study rocketry in Size doesn’t matter…
the university, but gave up as he failed to pass the
minimum score and studied engineering manage-
ment instead. The idea of “choosing” for his own Heavy duty
destiny may have been planted in his mind since
then, or perhaps it was something naturally in his
spirit. When he encountered roasting after losing and Compact
his eyesight, he realized that “his fate belongs to
him”, just like Sisyphus. He knows his own direction
of what kind of roasting to do.
Uncle Bean takes Alfred H. Peet, the founder
of Peet’s Coffee, as his idol. Mr. Peet is regarded as
the revolutionary who started specialty coffee in
the US. In 1966, he set up the first Peet’s Coffee in
Berkeley food district, bringing the flavors of fresh-
ly roasted beans and good coffee to the then Amer-
ican who tended to drink instant coffee. He also
selflessly taught his roasting skills to many in the
industry, including the three founders who started
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phor for himself, “The coffee bean makes a leap of MY
life form through its first crack, then the mellow-
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Then they moved to Dingxing County in Hebei the bean turns yellow. Once you can recognize
to start over. “We are like a patient up to now. Al- coffee beans roasted by Uncle Bean, like when our K
though we can eat and walk, in fact, we have inter- beans are easy to recognize, then it would be my
nal injuries that have not been recovered. My advice ideal stage of ‘walking away from the roaster’.”
to young people who are not yet in this industry, In fact, for many of his peers, the name “Uncle
would be to think it through. For many, it would be Bean” is easy enough to recognize. They call him a
best not to take this road.” senior, a teacher and a friend. “In addition to coffee,
In the new factory in Dingxing, Uncle Bean has we would exchange knowledge about literature and
an extra kind of company in his life: bread. Every religion. And he has gained a very vivid life, through
night after roasting coffee, he would follow the coffee.” says a friend of Uncle Bean’s, “I think he’s
master to learn how to make bread, just like how he very spirited.”
learned to make coffee in the past. Since his sense
of balance, distance and direction gets weaker with
his decreased eyesight, he uses this way to keep his
fingers flexible. It is also another way of expression
he has found to connect with the world besides
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Uncle Bean spent his student years in the “uni-
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