The 8th Lujiazui Coffee Festival has been sharing outstanding coffees and its passionate atmosphere with visitors in Lujiazui Central Greenland in the Central Business District (CBD) of Shanghai since October 18. The five-day coffee feast features more than 270 coffee brands and anticipates a total of 150,000-plus visitors throughout the event.
Taking advantage of China's vast territory and rich culture, Chinese baristas are creating innovative coffee flavors that keep pace with the times. While Flower and Piggy Coffee from Baotou city in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region brings flavors from the grassland to the Shanghai's financial hub coffee scene with a drink that involves a special type of Inner Mongolian liquor, Peter Yu, the manager of Pcup Coffee from Yunnan Province, introduces Yunnan coffee style to Shanghai – coffee with seasoned chicken feet. From surprising blends of coffee to offbeat ways of drinking coffee, this high-caffeine feast offers visitors a sensory journey filled with the rich aroma of coffee.
Based on five Inner Mongolian elements of liquor, grilled meat, milk, blue sky and grassland, Flower and Piggy Coffee comes up with a series of specialty drinks and amazes coffee lovers. /CGTN
The Lujiazui Coffee Festival this year innovatively launched the experimental platform Coffee Cube, aiming to provide more coffee managers with opportunities for growth in the future. Coffee Cube, combined with the open space of the Lujiazui Greenland Park, will host one coffee brand with unique local characteristics from all over the world in the form of a pop-up shop every month. Within one year, Coffee Cube is expected to bring different new coffee consumption experiences from twelve cities to coffee-lovers in Shanghai, creating an ever-lasting coffee festival.
Located in Lujiazui Central Greenland, Coffee Cube is introducing the concept of "Park Plus," transforming the space of the Lujiazui Greenland Park into an outdoor grand café and giving the public more coffee experiences . /CGTN
"Aussie Coffee Month" makes its debutante at the Lujiazui Coffee Festival, bringing a touch of Australian flavor to coffee-lovers in Shanghai. Miraki coffee from Australia continues to be a popular draw for the Chinese community in Sydney. Ricardo Miraki, the founder of the coffee shop, expressed his intention to open a little café in Shanghai next year. Apart from this, popular coffee shops from Australia, Japan, Singapore and Thailand add a global dimension to this year's coffee celebration as well.
The adorable logo of Miraki coffee from Australia melts everyone's heart and helps the brand gain public attention successfully. /CGTN
The Lujiazui Coffee Festival, founded in 2016, provides people with the opportunity to taste assorted flavors of coffee from all over the world and feel the passion for life and urban vitality that coffee brings. At the same time, the festival also uses coffee as a medium to build a bridge for resource sharing between countries and to initiate win-win cooperation. Let's toast for the growing coffee culture and the city spirit of prosperity and innovation.