Why did Mao Mengda suddenly become the lobby manager of Adeka Bar? , under the big sun
"Auntie, do you want coffee? With sugar and milk or plain coffee?" On May 24, Longfor Shanghai Hongqiao Tiandi·Tianjieli Outdoor Park welcomed the "Coffee Show - I Drink Coffee in Xinhong" event, and famous comedians Mao Mengda instantly became the lobby manager of Ade Coffee Bar, "Nowadays, the coffee is great. All coffee is freshly ground, which is very convenient. You don't even need to go out, you can order something on your mobile phone and the coffee will be delivered to your door."
"Coffee is an imported product. When it was first introduced to China, it must have first appeared in Shanghai where new-school people gathered. This strange brown liquid with a sour and bitter taste was called cough medicine at first. With the promotion and popularization of Western food, it later became It’s a fashionable thing. Before the official name of coffee was decided, there were various translations in the early years, such as kaofei, jiafei and gaofei.” Mao Mengda recalled the coffee bar and talked about the development of coffee in Shanghai with Han Tingting, a famous Yue opera artist. Shanghai is the birthplace of Chinese coffee culture. The Hongkou Cafe appeared as early as 1886. After the founding of New China, the Shanghai Coffee Factory was the first professional coffee production enterprise in my country.
Mao Mengda and Han Tingting chatted about Shanghai coffee, just like a talk show, making the audience jump and laugh.
Mao Mengda laughed and said that in an era without coffee appliances, fastidious Shanghainese people knew how to make coffee in the most primitive way: wrapping coffee powder in gauze, putting it in a steel pot and boiling it with boiling water. To be more authentic, the brewed coffee will be filtered through filter paper to make it taste purer. Some people prefer to add condensed milk to their coffee, somewhat similar to Vietnamese coffee. There is also one with a spoonful of whipped cream, the kind sold by Ruby. Some people even use malted milk to "tune it up" and serve it with two salty soda crackers. The red round iron can marked "Shanghai Brand" contains ground roasted coffee. A half-pound can costs 3 yuan and 50 cents. It is a taste that old Shanghainese are all too familiar with. In order to show your accent, even if you finish drinking, you should put the tin can in a conspicuous place in the glass cabinet.
While chatting about coffee, Mao Mengda and Han Tingting also performed on the stage with the "opera coffee" group formed by Zhang Sijia, an outstanding young actor from the Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre, and invited the audience to drink the first cup of "opera" coffee in Shanghai at Hongqiao Tianjie.
The 2024 Shanghai International Coffee Culture Festival has the theme of "Tasting the World in Shanghai" to further amplify the superimposed effect of "coffee". As a branch venue of the Shanghai International Coffee Culture Festival, Hongqiao International Coffee Culture Festival, Xinhong Street and Hongqiao Pinghui in Minhang District use coffee as a medium to continuously empower the construction of Hongqiao International Coffee Port, allowing everyone to linger in the endless coffee party. Xinhong Street in Minhang District joins hands with "Xinhong·Yue Space" to launch the "Coffee Shop and Play Cafe - I Drink Coffee in Xinhong" event, organically integrating "play" and "coffee" culture, and inviting enthusiasts to watch the show and enjoy coffee.
"We at Yue Space also look forward to using opera culture and coffee to depict an interesting lifestyle in Xinhong. Coffee is a kind of culture, and it is also a city card of Shanghai. It can not only be fast, but also slow, and slowly depict the Shanghai style. This is how opera gradually became intertwined with Shanghai. "Han Tingting remembered that she once went to an old cafe in Paris. There was an old black and white photo from a hundred years ago hanging in the shop, which is the interior of the cafe. It shows what it was like back then and what it looks like today. In the same way, the furnishings have basically remained unchanged. “I’ve added a little drama to Shanghai’s coffee, and I believe it will have a different Shanghai flavor.”
The relevant person in charge said that the purpose of creating the "Xinhong·Yue Space" in Xinhong Street is to inject the art of opera into Xinhong, cultivate pyrotechnic aesthetic education projects in the form of fashionable activities, and attract white-collar workers in the business district and community residents. Participate in it and experience the charm of opera culture immersively. Xinhong Street will join hands with "Xinhong Yue Space" to launch "Cultural and Creative Master Salons" one after another, build a platform for high-quality cultural resources to sink into business districts, communities, and campuses, and meet the requirements of the "Hongqiao International Open Hub Construction Master Plan". "Focus on building an international business district with cultural characteristics" has taken a step forward.
