Brief (coffeeyo.com): A café converted from an old pigsty in Guangxi’s Xingye County has gone viral, drawing both praise for its inventiveness and jokes about its “barnyard ambience”. Staff at the scenic area say the former pigpen was repeatedly washed, disinfected and sealed, and there is no smell left inside.
By Liu Qin, Jimu News
A pigsty-turned-café in Xingye County, Yulin City, Guangxi, has become a hit on social media. Many users find the idea highly creative, while others say they can almost smell the “barnyard ambience” through their screens — a play on the Chinese phrase for an atmospheric vibe. On September 17, staff at the scenic area where the café sits told Jimu News that the owner had repeatedly washed and disinfected the former pig-raising site and applied a curing agent to the walls several times, and that there is no longer any odour inside.
Screenshot from a video posted online.
The video shows a shop calling itself “Pigsty Café”: the walls are old-style rammed earth, low cement partitions — some cracked — run through the interior, and the tables and chairs are set right inside the former animal pens. The clip has drawn more than 60,000 likes and over 740,000 shares.
The person who posted the video told Jimu News that the café is located in a rural tourism scenic area in Kuishan Village, Shinan Town, Xingye County, Yulin City, Guangxi.
One visitor who had been to the café told Jimu News that she made a special trip about a month earlier to take photos. The shop, she said, had indeed been converted from an old pigsty, but the interior was clean and there was no smell of pigs. “There were quite a few people there at the time, lots of them taking photos,” she said. She only took pictures and did not order coffee, so she could not say anything about the prices or the taste.
Inside the Pigsty Café (video screenshot).
Staff at the rural tourism scenic area told Jimu News that the owner had washed and disinfected the former pig-raising site many times and sprayed a curing agent onto the walls on several occasions, so the shop no longer smells of pigs.
According to the staff member, the café opened around May this year. “We barely promoted it after opening. Some visitors filmed it on their own, then a blogger came to shoot a video and it took off,” they said. Some guests come specifically for the coffee, while others only stop in to take photos.
Source: Jimu News.
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