"So, do you plan to stay at this store in City for a long time in the future?" Yan Yun asked Bao Bao.

"Yes, the original store had Veronica, and now it's very stable, and I still learned my latte art from her. Bao Bao replied to Yan Yun.

"Didn't you dig someone from Manchester Press just because you fell in love with Veronica's latte art? How do you remember that Veronica's brewing level is very average, and only latte art is relatively good, no?" Yan Yun didn't know that Veronica had grown into the manager of that store. (Note 1)

"I can learn latte art from her, and of course she can learn how to do it from me. "Bao Bao and Veronica are kind of mentors to each other.

A good cup of coffee is indispensable for grinding, extracting, brewing, and creativity.

Now the World Barista Competition, because the first three steps have been thoroughly studied, many times the key to winning has begun to be put on creativity.

Creative coffee is actually a bit similar to the concept of molecular cuisine.

In the past few years, the World Barista Contest has also appeared auxiliary materials such as liquid nitrogen, which is most commonly used in molecular cuisine.

Of course, if you can make some breakthroughs in extraction and brewing, it will be easier to stand out in the competition. (Note 2)

"Great, so that you don't have to sit for more than an hour every now and then in order to drink a cup of Master Bao's coffee. Your old stores are too far away. For Yan Yun, who basically doesn't leave the city in the range of activities, what can make her run so far to drink a cup of coffee must be true love.

"Your definition of 'from time to time' is really broad enough, and it's great that you can come twice a month. Bao Bao ruthlessly exposed Yan Yun.

"I can't say that, before your café opened, did I leave City once a month?

If I hadn't been there to go to you, I wouldn't have to buy a Zone1+Zone2 bus annual pass at all, okay?

Is it easy for someone like me who only lives in the city center and doesn't even buy a car to go to you once?" Yan Yun would never let Bao Bao have the opportunity to "wrong" himself.

In the early days, Melbourne's bus system had three zones, Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3.

Zone 1 is the central area, Zone 2 is the surrounding area, and Zone 3 is the remote area.

Now 2 and 3 are together, and everything except the central area is considered 2 districts.

Bao Bao's first coffee shop is now in District 2, and it will be District 3 a few years ago.

"It's easy, it's a lot of people who come to City from your café every day. Bao Bao continued to expose Yan Yun.

"Hey, I knew you thought so, I didn't even go once or twice, obviously wrong.

I'm sitting on the sofa at home, and the abalone coffee will brew the coffee and deliver it to me?

Every month, I work hard to go to the store, and I still have to be disliked, this is really, people are warm and cold, and the world is hot and cold~" Yan Yun began to sigh.

"Why didn't you say that the dog bit Lu Dongbin?" Bao Bao felt that Yan Yun's words today were a bit too "elegant".

"Who said I wouldn't say it, I just paused and drank saliva, why did you snatch all my next lines?" Yan Yun protested.

Yan Yun was still very worried, she returned to China for a few days, and no one looked at Bao Bao, would it make Bao Bao start to think cranky.

Now it seems that even without her watching, Bao Bao has spent his main attention on the store that is about to open.

Selecting beans, baking, grinding, and training employees, everything is done by themselves, and Bao Bao, who is attached to his work, seems to be in good shape.

"You have so many lines, are you still afraid that I will snatch one or two sentences?" Bao Bao shook his head and asked Yan Yun not to be so "stingy".

"Well, for the sake of this line is not too critical, just forgive you for being a supporting character who wants to steal the show. Sometimes, Yan Yun is still more "generous".

"Do you know bone china?" Bao Bao suddenly asked Yan Yun a strange question.

"Bone china? Isn't that a common thing? It's even sold in supermarkets now, right?

Bone china should be the process of putting bone meal into the process of firing porcelain.

The porcelain produced in this way is of good color and is less fragile.

In the earliest time, it seems that the British inadvertently invented it when they imitated the thin porcelain in Jingdezhen.

It is barely the only type of porcelain invented by Westerners. "Yan Yun likes to collect porcelain.

It's not the kind of collection that is for the purpose of collecting, it's purely for the sake of "a good horse with a good saddle".

For Yan Yun, what kind of dishes to cook and what kind of porcelain to use are as important as what kind of wine to drink and what kind of cups to use.

But Bao Bao has always cared about this matter, and often despises Yan Yun for buying a few plates and other things back wherever he goes, and packing fragile items, which is a very space-consuming thing in the suitcase.

So Yan Yun didn't know why Bao Bao suddenly asked this question.

"It turns out that there is such porcelain. Westerners think differently. Bao Bao said thoughtfully.

"What do you mean?" Yan Yun didn't know what Bao Bao had just said.

"A few days ago, someone told me that it is now popular in Europe to make the ashes of relatives into porcelain for preservation, some of which can be used every day as tableware, and some as jewelry that can be worn on the body all the time. Bao Bao explained her own question.

"Ah, bone china is basically made of beef bone powder, and human ashes are popular in Europe?" Yan Yun felt incredulous.

"It's not that the porcelain sold on the market is privately customized, which can be regarded as a kind of mourning for the people you love. Bao Bao went on to explain.

"So you want to make Shen Xi's ashes into bone china?" This is the first time that Yan Yun has mentioned the name Shen Xi to Bao Bao for a long time.

"No, I just heard about it, and if I had known about it earlier, I might have had this idea at the time. Bao Bao did not shy away from Yan Yun's question.

"Is that so? That's an exaggeration.

Wait a minute, let me think about it~

I don't think I'm comfortable with this kind of commemoration.

If you miss someone, just think about it in your heart, and you have to wear a columbarium product on your body, or make it into tableware and use it to eat......

Oh my God, it's probably too Western, and I don't think the acceptance of the East is too high.

Anyway, I definitely don't have a way to understand it. "It's the first time Yan Yun has heard of such a cautious way of commemoration.

"yes, it does seem to be a bit of an alternative way to commemorate. Bao Bao was thoughtful.

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Note 1:

Manchester Press is a café tucked away in Melbourne's Rankins Lane alley.

Because it is relatively deep, there is a graffiti wall at the mouth of the alley as an indication.

Rankins Alley, originally a little-known alley in Melbourne.

Because of the existence of this café, no one minds the "deep alley".

This café is famous for its wide variety of animal latte art.

Note 2:

Last year (2016), the winner of the World Barista Competition was Wu Zelin from Taiwan.

He uses a nitrogen-infused air gun to blend the essential oil aromas of jasmine and bergamot into the coffee, so that the aroma of the coffee is intertwined with the aroma of the essential oil that gradually emanates.

Of course, creative coffee and molecular cuisine are suitable for people who have studied "tradition" thoroughly.

If you're not a true fan of coffee and already know a lot about coffee, if you start with creativity, you're likely to become more focused on form than content.

For example, one of the most amazing dishes of Hong Kong's Mi San creative cuisine Bo Innovation, mentioned in the previous book, is that the xiao long bao is made to the same as raw egg yolk.

If you want to ask, why don't you just eat xiao long bao, instead of eating a xiao long bao that looks like an egg yolk?

That's actually a particularly good question.

Why? There's really no good answer.

But anyway, if you have such doubts, it means that it is not suitable to go to a restaurant that is famous for molecular cuisine for the time being.