Moses Chan (陳豪) possessed a long-time dream of opening his own coffee shop. In 2011, he opened his coffee shop in Malaysia, but the venture was short-lived and only lasted one-year due to differences with his partner. Becoming a father of two children did not alter Moses’ coffee dreams. Spending over $10 million HKD, Moses is determined to make his own coffee brand, Blooms, a big success. The 44-year-old hopes to create a unique and exclusive coffee blend for his coffee label. Taking part in the taste-testing portion, Moses sampled 50 cups of coffee in a day. After work hours, Moses would bring bags of coffee beans back to his house to continue testing at home. After gaining business experience from his Malaysian coffee shop failure, Moses decided it is best to open a coffee shop in Hong Kong, which would allow him to monitor the operations more closely. In early February, Moses began scouting for a retail location and finally settled on a 4000-square-feet industrial unit for coffee testing and experimentation. Moses proudly hung the new business name on the door of his coffee-testing lab. Besides coffee, Blooms Roastery & Craft Tea will carry a wide selection of tea, various baked goods, and snacks. Creds: East Week
There seem to be a lot of coffee places where ever I go, so the competition is high. He has to really be on top of it up to succeed.
Holy shit, how does he sleep with all those coffee tasting. And it's hard to have a high quality coffee. Like the story in CHL, majority of the people would prefer those quick coffee places like Tim Hortons or Starbucks rather than the good quality coffee. Very little people know how to appreciate coffee, including me.
Well it depends which part of the world you live in. Tim Hortons & Starbucks will do really well in Canada & US but would struggle in Europe & Australia, where there's a strong coffee culture. Cafés/coffee shops are in abundance and where you will find high quality coffee. In HK most people would prefer going to cha chaan teng 茶餐廳 (HK style café) to have a ying yang 鴛鴦 rather than cappuccino or latte.
Honestly most coffees in HK blow... sure there are heaps of retail outlets but they serve woeful coffee. I'm not a coffee expert or a connoisseur but I do enjoy my coffees. I guess to a large extent, I am spoilt with heaps of great paces here locally. But whenever I visit HK, aprt from HK style coffee (from cha charn teng) I find it really hard to get a decent cup ... starbucks, maccas, pacific coffee etc are all very watery .... I would love to visit Moses' coffee place cos he really seems to care about the quality and taste mr_evolution can you try this out and report back please
lots of coffee drinkers in malay? Also business partner was involved so maybe they insisted it be there?
That's true. Coffee is more of an european thing. I dont think I drank coffee in HK. It was always hot lemon tea or lai cha. HK restaurant lai cha is great. They have a taste you cant make at home.
Moses Coffee, everyone come line ups of two by two. He will split the water so the coffee blend will mix to better taste.
Check out the FB page. https://www.facebook.com/bloomsroastery You have hit the nail on the head. It's hard to find decent coffee in HK I only go to Pacific Coffee or Starbuck to use the free wifi. In Oz, no body drinks at Starbucks. That's the reason why most of them have shut down.
Use evaporated milk to make it. Come very close if you try to make it at home Starbucks here in Oz is if Moses does coffee properly, like the places he went to in Aus, then it should do really well in HK. hoyeah! which part of Aus you from?
I'm from Melb. and I love my coffee. I need about 3 to 4 cups a day otherwise, I go and very cranky . I believe Moses has studied & lived in Aus for a number of years before he moved back to HK so I'm sure he would have high expectations when it come to making the perfect coffee.
Correct me if i am wrong but HK people seems to have a busy life. So rather than take time in a coffee shop to enjoy and relax, they go to these cha chang ten and have a quick meal with milk tea.
Yea he was over here for a period of time before he went back to HK. I visited a few of the cafes he recommended on his coffee show a while back. Most of them actually made a decent coffee, so i'd have high hopes/expectations of his own shop Part true, they are busy but still find time to enjoy the little luxuries of life a nice strong, well made coffee is one of them
I would imagine most office workers don't give a fuck. They just need something to wake them up and they're in a rush anyways. No time to enjoy coffee and just there for the caffeine.
