Personally I do not take to the coffee-drinking lifestyle very much. The cafes in Singapore are small and usually crowded with people. If only if the cafes here are as big and well designed as those in Seoul, I may consider changing my lifestyle. When I say big, the cafes in Seoul can be as high as four-storey and occupy one whole block of building. It is quite surprising that a western lifestyle can make it big time in Korea and not in Singapore. I guess maybe our local kopitiams (coffee shops) have been doing a fine job of brewing fresh and fragrant coffee every day at one-fifth of the price of coffee sold at the cafe chains. In Singapore, sitting in a cafe drinking coffee is a lifestyle but sitting in a kopitiam drinking coffee is a way of life.
Starbucks Coffee in Myeondong (Top Left). Coffee Bean in Insadong (Top Right). Inside Coffee Bean in Hurest Wellbeing Club, Myeongdong (Bottom)
Drinking coffee in a lush designed cafe seems to be the city dwellers' life. Cafe is a meeting place. Some like to be seen in a cafe and some like to see others or look at others in a cafe.
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