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[Lamma-Gung]

Best coffee on Lamma?

There's some tough competition out there and a coffee connoisseur like myself is spoilt for choices. Some of the best ones - besides my current favourite Mochaccino in Tropicana and mojo's special brew - can be found in unexpected places: B&B and New Holiday Mood.

But nothing beats the very very best coffee on Lamma, IMHO: at my home!
I've tried a number of coffee beans available in local shops and nothing was good & affordable enough for my daily home brew. So I have to import it from HK Island and brew it myself, see below:

"Full bodied and silky smooth, a combination of chocolaty Arabian Mocha coffee with beans from the lushy forested mountains of Java. Inhale the tangy aroma."
Enjoying a big mug right now. Aaaaaaaahhhh!

[mojo]

Hi Volley,

Yes, truly satisfying high quality coffee is known to have a diuretic property so I take it as a complement that my coffee always make you want to use the facilities.

The cafe is called Lily Garden but actually there's no one called Lily here. (And just to set the record straight I'm a guy and have no intention of faking my gender in the cyberworld) And no I'm not related to that looney scientist Graeme Garden from Goodies. Thanks for writing. Come visit on the weekend.

[volley]

Thanks Lily,

I am now clear on everything.

When you wrote the 'funky gibbon' were you high on coffee then?

[Lamma-Gung]

The local coffee wars are heating up.
New entrant Village Bakery will start offering fresh brewskis at $10/15 from tomorrow, 6-10am only. Directly sourced from a farm in South America where the Bakery proprietor knows the farmers personally...

And, to my sheer horror and utter dismay, i've discovered that the Green Cottage has run out of organic coffee for their Organic Soya-ccinos.
Not that I've tried this exotic brew ever before, but while trying to do some research today for an upcoming blog story on Lamma's growingly sophisticated coffee scene (at least for a Chinese fishing village!) I was thwarted by the unavailability of this fancy concoction with probably the fanciest name I've found so far in the vibrant local coffee subculture...

I had to console myself with a plain Ginger Mocha instead, pretty fancy & expensive at $22 for a medium cup, especially as compared to their famous GIGANTIC, HUMONGOUS, XXXL cup of Latte, by far the largest cup on the island available in a public establishment! And it lasts longer than reading an entire SCMP, I can attest!

I might have to test their French Press and Chococcino brews next time, purely for research purposes, of course...

Has anybody else been trying to find the best local coffee?