I’ve been putting this off for a while now, I felt like if I had actually gone ahead and wrote it, then it would truly be over. But, I can only escape from reality for so long, and while I am just 700 kilometers outside of Beijing on this dreaded 11 hour flight, I realized […]
Category: Café
Café Series: Berlin Bicycle Café Kitchener
Let’s change things up a little bit this time. Every cafe post will now have an accompanying song. This week’s feature is Bolppalga4 (볼빨간사춘기), and their song Galaxy or 우주를 줄게. Recently I’ve been super busy with school and interviews. Never really had a chance to go proper cafeing for a while now. For those who have […]
Saturday in Outer Sunset
I bought a new lens! Yes, it’s the ever-so-brilliantly-cheap Samyang 14mm f/2.8 ultra-wide. Ever since the day I got it in my hands I’ve been itching to try it out: I climbed twin peaks on an unfortunately foggy night and couldn’t do anything with it; I tried to go to my friend’s workplace on the 40th floor […]
Café Series: Andytown Coffee Roasters
Must. Have. Coffee. Ever since I got the drip filter, my coffee situation at work has been improved drastically. The beans we have are actually fantastic. But on the weekends, I continue my trek of finding the best coffee wherever I go. This weekend, I had plans to go to Outer Sunset for some sunset […]
Café Series: Farley’s San Francisco
Great coffee is truly outrageous; they’re truly, truly outrageous. I had eyed Farley’s before I even arrived in San Francisco. They’re the highest rated coffee shop on Yelp in Potrero Hill, and it’s destiny that the Farleys near me is one of the original third-wave coffeehouses. I go in, I ask for an Americano. This […]
Day Out with Jessen
This was originally going to be a café series post. I had made plans with Jessen to go to the last hipster coffee shop in Waterloo before I had to leave. The shop is just uptown, called Seven Shores. I decided against making a café series post for a simple reason: Seven Shores is not a coffee […]
Café Series: Balzac’s Coffee Roasters Kitchener
I really wish Kitchener would be done with the construction soon. Then again I probably won’t be around long enough to see it. I just wish I didn’t have to drive around the lot 3 times before figuring out the entrance, disorienting Paige in the process (sorry Paige!). Balzac’s Coffee Roasters (which I’ll just call […]
Café Series: DVLB Waterloo
Caffeine powers me, and I think I just found my fuel. DVLB, or Death Valley’s Little Brother, is a little shop in Uptown Waterloo. This has got to be the best place I’ve been to, so far (July 25th, 2016). Interior is fantastic, cozy, yet classy; varying sizes of tables and chair arrangements. The lights […]
Café Series: Jule Toronto
Sony A7II Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM f/1.8, 1/1000s, ISO-800 聚, or Jule, is a small but cozy coffee shop in downtown Toronto. I had dragged Paige here with the intention of briefly reviewing it. After much struggle with Google Maps (the GPS in my phone doesn’t seem to like the tall buildings of downtown Toronto […]
Café Series: Settlement Co. Waterloo
This is where the hipsters live! I’ve been to Settlement Co. for a couple of times meeting with Paige (a different Paige) & Kyle for their wedding shoot sync-ups and plannings, but I never had a chance to try out a proper coffee from this place. I really should’ve taken a photo of the coffee, […]