Echo cafe “Amani”
From July 16th to 19th, the "Super Gravity Coffee Festival", which gathers top domestic and foreign coffee brands, was held at the Wanda Plaza in Guiyang.
At the coffee festival, many brands made use of local ingredients from Guizhou, organically blending Luodian dragon fruit, Guizhou prickly pear, chili, rice, and other ingredients with coffee to create a new coffee flavor with Guizhou flavor.
Echo cafe “Amani”
Echo cafe from Anshun, Guizhou blends wasabi infused milk on the top of the coffee, giving it a refreshing and stimulating taste. The bottom layer has some white wine and sandalwood aromas, while the middle layer is filled with rich fruit aroma. The tail notes also have elegant floral fragrance. At the same time, local Rodin dragon fruit is added to enhance the flavor of the coffee. Compared to ordinary dragon fruit, the fruit aroma is purer and richer, with a light fragrance that is not pungent, making the drink have a three-dimensional and rich flavor.
GTScoffe Roasters "Old Guiyang Rice Flower"
Gtscoffee Roasters, a local coffee brand in Guiyang, uses Guizhou specialty glutinous rice and Dong ethnic rice to make a rice milk base, which is mixed with fresh milk. The top layer is poured with rich and concentrated coffee, making the coffee taste distinct and the grain and rice aroma soft, complementing the coffee aroma. The fusion of coffee and rice milk is just right, evoking the memories of Guiyang people tasting old-fashioned popcorn on the street.
Backpackers Coffee Traveler
Sheepskin Cave
A brand coffee traveler from Qiannan, Guizhou has put the Guizhou specialty attraction "Sheepskin Cave" into a cup. Sheepskin Cave "is a special blend mainly based on Guizhou Maoyemu ginger seeds and green apples, with a refreshing taste and a unique light basil aroma with lemongrass and green apple sandwich cookies. The first mouthful is sweet and sour of green apples, mixed with the unique aroma of wood ginger, and the base note is the mellow of coffee and the refreshing of basil.
Little Wild "Breath of Grass and Trees 2.0"
In response to the local people's love for spicy food, "Breath of Plants 2.0" adds herbal ingredients such as lavender and white asparagus to coffee, and blends them with local dried chili and Mexican chili. The entrance first has a herbal fragrance, and the middle and later stages show a spicy taste, with rich and varied layers, replicating the sensory experience of strolling through the mountains and forests of Guiyang and local dietary preferences.
Room for G ELATO – Five Flavors of Life
The coffee brand Pomelo+from Shanghai brings an Italian handmade ice cream called "Five Flavors of Life", made with a blend of Italian lemon, bitter melon, and local chili peppers from Zunyi, Guizhou. Chili peppers adorn the top of the ice cream, allowing you to taste four layers of flavors intertwined in one bite: the bitterness of bitter melon, the freshness and sourness of lemon, the dense and sweet taste of gelato, and the unique spicy aroma of chili peppers wrapped in the aftertaste. The combination of sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy flavors is like a hundred flavors of life.
The collision and fusion of local flavors and boutique coffee have brought Guizhou's unique flavors to the public through coffee, enriching the diverse experience of drinking coffee and continuously attracting tourists from both inside and outside the province to stop and taste, continuously amplifying the unique appeal of Guiyang's coffee culture.
Intern journalists: Zhao Qiyi, Nong Luya