Shanghai is a city that loves coffee with many citizens being familiar with coffee vocabulary such as Americano, latte, cappuccino, and SOE (Single Origin Espresso). A man in Shanghai has become instantly famous after his creation of a Chinese-style coffee making method.

“In Japan, people extract coffee with a flannel; in Italy, they use the pressurization method. Maybe Chinese people can have our own unique coffee extraction method,” Liu Houjun said to himself one day. Then he quit his job at the age of 48 as an executive in a public company to open his own café.

He came up with an idea to apply the Chinese technique of making stewed soup to coffee extraction, and called it Chinese-style coffee.

The simmered coffee liquid is modulated to conform to the taste of the Chinese people without losing the original flavor.

Apart from the special coffee-making method, Liu has also created some other innovative coffee drinks, like Yogurt Espresso, Shanghai Latte, Rice Wine Latte and Shanghai Americano.