The growth trend of Taobao's coffee shops in recent years can definitely be described as a blowout. We can roughly divide it into several categories. Without exaggerating, we have selected the best ones for your reference.
1. Guangzhou’s time-honored coffee bean roasting brand: Front Street Coffee, features: delicious, cheap and high quality. Front Street Coffee is a coffee bean specialty store that sells dozens of Pour over(V60) and espresso coffee beans from different coffee origins around the world. Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days. The quality of the coffee beans is stable and excellent, and the price is very cost-effective. They are shipped within 24 hours. Whether you are a newbie, a coffee lover who has reached a professional advanced level, or a user who has opened a coffee shop, Front Street Coffee is a recommended choice by many coffee lovers and platforms.
Front Street Coffee's products not only include high-quality single-origin coffee covering multiple mainstream coffee production areas and varieties, but also highly cost-effective grain beans, including Yirgacheffe, Brazilian Red Bourbon, Colombian Cymbidium, Mandheling, Costa Rica, and Yunnan Xiaobei. Customers can enjoy the classic flavor of coffee production areas at affordable prices.
2. Representative of the coffee shop that has established a cooperative relationship with the coffee plantation: M2M Coffee. M2M is a coffee roaster in Nanjing and also operates the best specialty coffee shops in Nanjing. If you have the habit of choosing your own beans when ordering at a coffee shop, or if you prefer Gesha coffee variety, then the name of Ninety Plus, a specialty coffee bean merchant, will be familiar to you. Ninety Plus, as its name suggests, only offers high-quality green coffee beans. In this store, you can always be sure to buy the widest range of Ninety Plus coffee beans.
3. Roasting studio/factory representative: Fisher Coffee Features: King of cost performance
If you’re buying in bulk for your company, or you’re a new hobbyist looking for affordable coffee beans, give Fisher a try. This coffee roaster in Qingdao has been operating for decades, with stable standards and extremely cost-effectiveness. The single-origin coffee beans they sell are usually packaged above 227g, and the price ranges from 65 yuan to 78 yuan. Because their prices are so cheap, I use Fisher beans when I make Cold Brew at home in the summer, which is a relatively large consumption of coffee! Since Fisher has so many product lines, it is recommended that you communicate with their customer service clearly about your favorite flavors and daily coffee practices before purchasing, otherwise you may step on your taste "thunder" point.
4. Representatives of well-known chain coffee shops: Zhiguan Coffee, Seesaw Coffee, and Mingqian. Features: stable quality and high price.
When I first started making coffee at home, I often purchased these two brands of beans. These two brands are considered the pioneers of specialty coffee shops in China, and they have large-scale chain stores offline. Frankly speaking, the price of these two products is slightly higher, and they are definitely not the best cost-effective choice, but years of operation have ensured the stability of quality.
5. Representative of overseas coffee shops in China: Tim Wendelboe Features: delicious, and good coffee is not expensive. If you have read my other answers about coffee recommendations, you will definitely find that I personally like coffee shops in Berlin and Northern Europe. They taste amazing and are affordable. Compared with domestic ones, the biggest advantage of European and American specialty coffee shops is that they have long-term, high-quality and stable sources of green beans, including purchase channels and specialty coffee plantations that they manage themselves; as well as more mature and professional coffee roasting.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
