Mira, Poonie, and I hit up the Hoxton location for dinner, and surprisingly, there was no queue! We were seated right away, and there were only two other parties dining. I was told that the Soho location always has a super long queue, and I’d think probably an even longer queue for brunch, so we definitely got lucky, or perhaps we were simply more strategic.

Jennifer introduced this cafe to me when I stayed at her place over Memorial Day Weekend last year. As soon as she said it was a Taiwanese cafe, I knew I had to check it out. I miss Taiwanese food so much. I’m only ever in Taiwan once a year, but during those one or two weeks I’m there, I always make sure to visit the night market every night and stuff myself with as much food as I can. Not the healthiest choice, but I will allow myself to indulge in this once a year. Taiwan has the best food, and it’s all super affordable. It would be a crime not to eat it all!

This is the LAST cafe post from my epic spring break 2016 cafe crawl. Yeah I’ve been pretty lax about getting these posts out in real-time, but I figured it didn’t really matter, because cafes are perfect all-year-round. Don’t worry, there are definitely more cafe posts to come.

This cafe first caught my eye because Bi Fu is the name of one of my classmates (not those characters though). Then my mom told me that that was her friend’s cafe and that there was also a design store upstairs linked to the cafe. (By design she meant fashion design, like, a clothing store, though at first I thought she meant interior design.)

In elementary school, I had a friend whose mom had her own tea company, and we’d often go over to her house for tea parties. I remember piles of scones and soaking my black tea with milk and three cubes of sugar. Over winter break, my mom took me to have a little tea party of our own at The English Tearoom.

Whilst in Berlin, I asked Rae for some coffee shop recommendations, and she gave me Kaffeemitte, Kaschk, and Mamecha. Of the three, I knew I had to pop by Mamecha, because, well, how could I resist a green tea cafe?