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[Smartshop] Coffee
New office coffee machine begets journalism gold - By Holly, Mar 25, 08
This week saw the installation of a shiny new coffee machine in the SmartShanghai office. Although very welcome, the newest addition to the team (and one which -- like all the best employees -- helps to make the rest of the team just a little bit more productive) sparked some debate as to where in Shanghai we could get hold of the best coffee to fill our new friend with.
In a city with almost as many coffee shops as New York or London, it is surprisingly difficult to find good ground coffee for your own machine.
So SmartShanghai took to the streets, brought back coffee from both sides of the river, wrote this article at top speed, and then edited it once the caffeine wore off.
The result is a list of the top (and bottom) places to find real coffee to use at home:
Carrefour
As is true with a lot of things, living near a Carrefour makes ground coffee fairly easy to find. And thanks to the current European Food Fair display (I think that Carrefour is the only one who knows about the "European Food Fair") the coffee is actually accessible once you get inside. Carrefour stocks its own brand of coffee, Pure Arabica, which is 33rmb for a 250g packet. Pure Arabica is not bad for the price
In a city with almost as many coffee shops as New York or London, it is surprisingly difficult to find good ground coffee for your own machine.
So SmartShanghai took to the streets, brought back coffee from both sides of the river, wrote this article at top speed, and then edited it once the caffeine wore off.
The result is a list of the top (and bottom) places to find real coffee to use at home:
In the shops:
Carrefour
As is true with a lot of things, living near a Carrefour makes ground coffee fairly easy to find. And thanks to the current European Food Fair display (I think that Carrefour is the only one who knows about the "European Food Fair") the coffee is actually accessible once you get inside. Carrefour stocks its own brand of coffee, Pure Arabica, which is 33rmb for a 250g packet. Pure Arabica is not bad for the price
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