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It's always the same round here. Someone opens a new business. It takes off. So everyone else opens the same kind of business until the market gets saturated and no one makes any money! There used to be one guy in the city centre selling and attaching little protective covers for your mobile phone display. Now there are dozens.
The other big fashion is coffee shops. Not that anyone seems to know anything about coffee. There are a million and one places which have opened in the last couple of years. Most are very average, some are terrible. In 99% of them, they take forever to make an overpriced cup of muddy water. It's all about the ritual - no one seems to know what the stuff is actually meant to taste like. I've only found two which are good. One for its atmosphere and the other for a really good coffee.
There are four within five minutes of my home, two of which opened next door to each other within a few days.
But I am looking forward to visiting this one which is being built here in Liuzhou. Not so much a coffee bar, more a coffee brothel, by the sounds of it!
Thanks to Laura for the tip off and the picture.
Oh dear. Someone should tell them, if its not too late. They even managed
to spell coffee wrong! Hang on! Does that say Porn Queen? Bit of a set-up I
think.
I don't think there is any need to tell them. I'm sure they know.
Yeah you beat me to! I was going to post this too, the place is in the same
complex as our new rental. All those signs are there as "examples" of
businesses to come. You probably saw the ones for Haagen Daz and 7-11 too.
With this one though, I'm sure some graphic designer/architect is had a
good laugh.
Maybe is a publicity stunt. Is the race to the bottom so bad that they have
to resort to such PR stunts?
Publicity stunt? 99% of the local population have no idea what it says!
Genius. I bet the coffee will taste kind of familiar and yet kind of
dirty. My local bakery just turned into a total poor man's version of 85
degrees, but sadly it is called the highly boring 'Apple Garden'.
I thought it was Chinglish when I spotted it until I saw the Porn Queen. It
is definitely a set up... Maybe they are just big Sex and the City fans..
Carrie: We should open one in every block, like Starbucks!
Samantha: Starfucks!
I howled with laughter on this one! Would be interesting to see if it ever
truly opened up or if it's just a string a signs like we have in our city.
When I lived in China I saw a "Starbuck" with no "s" on the end so I guess
this is an improvement in terms of intellectual copyright? Thanks for
sharing and as always things never seem to change.
Is a date set for the opening? I will definitely be there.
Where is it? Think I should pay a visit when I'm back to liuzhou during
Qingming! LOL
It's on Wenchang Road (文昌路) opposite the new Peoples' Hospital (市人民医院)
So that means it's near my home , which is at Guizhong Avenue (桂中大道) !
This looks like the same publicity stunt that we saw about a year ago.
Developers put a funny shanzhai sign on a storefront that is under
construction in order to attract leasers and attention. As you can see,
the building is still being constructed in the photo. This isn't a real
store, nor would it continue to be. I know of fake Subway stores, etc.,
but Subway is infamous for allowing things like that internationally.
Starbucks, McD's, KFC are much more brutal when it comes to infringement,
so I call fake.
Yes, I know its not a real coffee shop, thanks!
Funny find! Where is this place? Could you tell me where to find this
coffee shop? I wanna pay a visit :) Thanks!
Read the comments above, Travelling. They tell you exactly where it is and
that it isn't a real coffee shop!
Thank you Liuzhou! It's on No. 3, Wenchang Rd. Nan Ya Ming Di （南亚名邸）? It's
a coffee shop under construction or not a coffee shop at all?
In fact there are two of them and for last time, it's not a real coffee
shop.
Do u konw u cafe in Liuzhou ? It's located in 43# Goldfish lane of South
Liberation Road (解放南路金鱼洗巷43号)
Espresso in there is good!
And that was a commercial break from fish in goldfish lane!
The signs have now been removed. Someone woke up.
good that they did not change the the "star" to "start".......