跨界融合《啡遗有戏》孤独症孩子母亲咖啡创新大赛斩获桂冠

Brief (coffeeyo.com): At a Quanzhou coffee competition, an entry that folds decaffeinated coffee into dumpling wrappers took first prize. Its creator, Xu Xuanzhu, is the mother of an autistic child and has spent years fighting lupus.

Quanzhou Net, 15 September — Gong Cuiling (reporter) and Zhou Tingting (correspondent); text and photographs.

At the second Litai Coffee Innovation Competition, a creation called “Fei Yi You Xi” — a name that puns on feiyi (intangible cultural heritage) and fei, the Chinese word for coffee — wowed the room and carried off the top prize. Its maker, the reporter learned, is Xu Xuanzhu: the mother of an autistic child and a woman who has long battled lupus.

Xu Xuanzhu presents her winning creation.

For the contest Xu Xuanzhu crossed disciplines boldly, marrying dumpling culture with specialty pour-over coffee: she worked decaffeinated coffee into the wrappers to create “Fei Yi Crystal Dumplings”, served alongside a dessert she called “Fei Chang Ji Dong” jelly. Dumplings carried the weight of intangible heritage; coffee carried human warmth. Her singular craft deeply moved the judges.

Xu Xuanzhu is an old friend of the Quanzhou Dongnan Public Welfare Association. Four years ago she brought her autistic child into the association’s “Xinghe Shaonian” autism growth-support programme. Over those four years she stepped out of the house, took her child to all manner of autism-support activities and quietly studied intangible-heritage crafts. Today she has grown from a participant into an organiser and planner, often out at autism-support events. She is a keen coffee-maker too, and under the patient guidance of a café owner has honed her brewing skills.

“This honour would not have come without the Dongnan team’s company, support and encouragement all along the way,” Xu Xuanzhu says, looking back with feeling. Once she was someone who needed help; now she has become someone who passes warmth on — more confident, and with a new direction in life.

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