Is Shanghai the new coffee capital of the world? | BBC News

If you walk through the streets of Shanghai, its café culture is unmissable.

There are some areas where you won’t be able to turn without passing yet another new café.

China’s financial capital now has so many coffee shops that the government has claimed it has the most in the world.

However, with so many new establishments, the competition for customers has become fierce.

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[kaijunjiang]

BBC forgot the grey lense. Fire the camera man.

[sanimgurung]

This probably one of the most positive reporting I've seen by steven

[X-H-Wu]

The title missed these three important words which BBC always uses when reported something about China: "but at what cost."

[nmnnmmnmvwvvwwvw]

Am I hallucinating, or has the BBC actually made a normal report on China without its long-standing gray-China filter?

[lilyx]

It s the first time BBC show a bit of true China

[edwardsnowden]

A BBC report about china without Grey filters!!!? colour me shocked 😮

[huajieliu]

Shanghai is. Chinese young people are avid about coffee in recent years. And many brands were born to appeal to their needs, such as Ruixing and Manners. This is a good thing because coffee has many health benefits such as losing weight and energizing the mind. Hope more and more young people love coffee in the future.

[NewData-lyck]

I can't believe BBC is not talking shit about China

[googledoodle]

The Bund in central Shanghai is an amazing place to relax.

[FireWall.]

Not surprising. Shanghai has always been more international than the rest of china.

[Pedestrian-kb]

South Korea, too. Everyone loves coffee. I think coffee drinking culture has been spreading through North-east asia. Is it something to concern? Considering global warming, it could be. Most coffee drinking countries don't grow their own coffee beans..

[fdama]

I remember being taken to cafes to have some exceptionally good coffee in Shanghai when I used to visit in the early 90s for business. Cappuccinos and Lattes were unheard of in Manchester where I lived in at the time. Shanghai has always had good coffee, long before the “Starbucks-ification” of many western cities.

[Vermilion]

I grew up in Shanghai now live in the UK. It is a beautiful vibrant city. Everything should visit once in their life time at least to experience

[junaidisalam]

not surprising, starbucks opens the most outlets in china last year

[MorbidManoeuvres]

nah, id say Athens-Greece. you can walk anywhere/any direction in the city and every 5 mins there is another cafe.

[priceandpride]

1:18 coffee passed through the gloryhole

[bryedtan]

Despite the fact Asia is more a market for tea than coffee. The past few years has seen coffe take a preference weather in East Asia like as seen in this report in China but also in countries like Japan and South Korea which has a strong coffee culture to Southeast Asia in Singapore, Indonesia Vietnam and the Philippines where coffee culture has been strong for much longer.

[HappyHourWithMatt]

This is great. I love the coffee scene in China. They have soo many good cafes now.

[joepooncouk]

weird, the BBC would say anything positive about china

[SimonFrack]

Many high school students drink coffee in China.
There are takeaway coffee places literally everywhere.