During the Spring Festival holiday, the reporter will take you to check in a treasure café hidden in the bookstore
The café is located in the Aegean Shopping Park in Hongqiao Town, where the space of light coexists with the Pearl Art Museum in Shanghai, and Chinese New Year activities and exhibitions are underway!
Cafe in a bookstore
Hearing its name, "pomelo sees jasmine", I suddenly feel fresh and natural, and a strong Chinese wind is blowing in my face. In one sip, the freshness of grapefruit and jasmine aroma are mixed with the aroma of freshly extracted coffee, which makes people have an endless aftertaste. According to reports, it is a coffee that is loved by customers, and it is made with ingredients such as grapefruit, jasmine, and fresh coffee beans.
"Yuzu Jasmine" won the first prize in the 2023 Shanghai Publication Distribution Industry Coffee Skills Competition. It is reported that the competition is the "finale" project of the 3rd Shanghai Coffee Culture Week sponsored by the Shanghai Book Distribution Industry Association, and a total of 60 contestants from more than 40 bookstores in Shanghai were invited to compete on the same stage. After more than five hours and ten rounds of fierce competition, three baristas from Xinhua Cultural and Creative Light Space (Shanghai Yuanzhen Culture Media) won good results in the competition.
Among them,"Mahjong Latte" won the winning prize in this competition. It is a hot drink with a niche flavor and is intense and full-bodied in the mouth. "Flowers" won the encouragement award in this competitionIt is called Fanhua, which means that it uses elderflower, osmanthus, longan nectar, and treats beans with nitrogen** to make a variety of flavors better integrated, and it tastes rich in floral fragrance.
In the space of light, coffee is not only a drink, but also a reflection of culture and lifestyle. "Ordering a cup of coffee, a piece of cake, and reading a book have become a fashion choice for many urbanites. Barista Zhang Yihui said.
According to reports, the space barista team of light is composed of a group of professional baristas who love coffee. They hold the Q-Arabica Grader, SCA Gold Cup Advanced, Barista Advanced and Roasting Intermediate certifications.
In the process of producing coffee, baristas will pay great attention to the grasp of concentrated extraction and hand pouring technology, and each cup of coffee is carefully made to ensure a high-quality taste, so that customers can enjoy the charm of coffee art while drinking coffee.
About the bookstore - Xinhua Cultural and Creative Light Space
Xinhua Cultural and Creative Light SpaceIt is a new urban reading space led by Shanghai Xinhua Distribution Group in December 2017. Since its opening,We are committed to using books as the medium, reading as the origin, and culture as the core driving force to activate the vitality of the entire regionTo meet the cultural needs of the surrounding citizens.
The space of light was designed by the world-renowned architect Tadao Ando, with a total construction area of about 5,000 square meters. The overall space is connected to the Shanghai Pearl Art Museum upstairs by a unique egg-shaped structure, forming a comprehensive cultural and artistic space with reading as the soul.
Tadao Ando designed through bookshelves with embedded window openings'Let the reader meet the reader, let the book and the reader meet', some lattices have light, some lattices have no light, and the overall look is soft and orderly. At the beginning of the design, he hoped that people who entered the library could put down their electronic devices and concentrate on reading with peace of mind, so many college students and graduate school students like to study here. Wang Chenchen, director of bookstore operations, introduced.
Xinhua Cultural and Creative Light Space Bookstore has nearly 40,000 varieties and more than 150,000 books, covering high-quality books in various fields such as humanities and social sciences, literature, art, architecture, design, finance and economics, life, and growth.
Recently, Xinhua Cultural and Creative Light Space Bookstore has joined hands with the century-old brand Guoyu to bring a surprise to the majority of stationery controllersKOKUYO Campus Life HallOfficially settled.
Among them,KOKUYO CAMPUS Year of the Dragon Limited Series is officially on the shelves, with red, indigo, blue, gold, and Xuan five-colored auspicious dragons, different meanings, to bring customers New Year's good luck blessings!
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According to reports, every year, the space of light undertakes all kinds of rich cultural activities, with an average of more than 100 annual activities, and the service benefits millions of readers. It provides a variety of cultural services including theme activity planning, bookstore exhibition curation, professional course training, space rental, brand photography and so on.
An art gallery in a bookstore
As a bookstore with an art museum, Light Space is committed to creating exhibitions that can integrate with the bookstore environment with its own unique background advantages"Books are exhibitions, and exhibitions lead to books".When readers read a book, they move to the exhibition, and when they visit the exhibition, there are supporting books next to the exhibits.
In addition, during the exhibition held at the Pearl Art Museum, there will also be themed book displays, so that the exhibition can continue in the form of reading.
Currently, the Pearl Art Museum is ongoingCelebration of the Soil Exhibition,When you have some time, why not invite a friend to hang out!
Reminder:Pearl Art Museum will be temporarily closed from February 9, 2024 (Chinese New Year's Eve) to February 17, 2024 (the eighth day of the first lunar month), and will resume normal opening on February 18 (the ninth day of the first lunar month).
*: Minhang today.