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Overview

  • 3 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning French, Spanish
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • Barista,
  • Bachelor of English Language and Literature
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

I see myself as a coffee media between people and coffee. I am a barista and I use coffee to embrace tasting experience of sensation and sensory.

Now I make coffee during my trip to connect people.

I was working as a barista in common room & co where is a mixed space in Shum Shui Po in Hong Kong. It contains café, book shop, fabrication lab and gallery. I make good hand brew coffee everyday as my work.

In June in 2015 I have started my 1 year travel project about coffee. I believe everybody can find a favourite cup of coffee, and every cup could be different when they want to explore more tastes. In order to meet people to taste different coffee, I bring along my coffee tools and different coffee beans to share with people who would like to explore more possibilities from the cups.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Wanna meet different people with different cultures.

Collect tastes and feeling from people when we taste together

Interests

Brew and taste coffee with different people
Music
Reading different genres of photos
Hiking

  • culture
  • photography
  • coffee
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • cycling
  • hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Jew Harp
Didgeridoo music
Any kinds of music touching me at the moment

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lost my backpack before I went to Iceland. I stayed 20 day in Iceland without backpack but coffee bean. I have finished 4 day camping from Landmanlagur to Skogar.

I spend 10 days to finish a round trip by bike in Taiwan with 3 best friends.

I have finished 4 day trekking and camping from Landmannalaugar to Skogarfoss in Iceland!

I brought my roasted beans for cupping event in Beans on Fire in Paris as 1 out of 6 beans.

Teach, Learn, Share

Trust the process

Follow the flow

Learn to be mindful and self care my needs and others’ needs.

What I Can Share with Hosts

New mindset of tasting coffee
Fresh Coffee
The local culture in Hong Kong
Nice exhibition
Cantonese, my mother language
Culture of my home city - Hong Kong

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France

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