Three fathers and sons participated in the Taiwan Coffee Festival Baking Competition

[The Epoch Times, November 10, 2013] (Reported by Epoch Times reporter Dai Deman, Yunlin, Taiwan) 30 coffee roasters from all over Taiwan held the 2013 Taiwan Coffee Festival Roasting Competition at Gukeng Huashan Elementary School on the 10th. In the final competition, contestant Xu Yihong, who has been in the coffee industry for 10 years, brought his son Xu Jianjie, who is in the third year of high school, and Xu Hualong, the son of the first year of junior high school, to compete together, hoping to win the top three in one fell swoop.

The coffee roasting competition is one of the highlights of the 2013 Taiwan Coffee Festival. Xu Yihong, who used to run a supermarket chain in Kaohsiung, saw cheap products pretending to be Gukeng coffee. Feeling sad, I returned to Yunlin a few years ago and decided to "find a way for the small coffee farmers in my hometown."

Xu Yihong's two sons are very interested in roasting coffee beans under the influence of their ears and eyes. Customers often buy the coffee beans roasted by them. Xu Hualong does not drink black coffee, but he can roast high-quality coffee beans. He won a masterpiece in the first competition last year. Today, the roasting competition ended, and some people asked him for coffee beans to taste, which made his father very proud.

The coffee roasting competition site attracted many coffee lovers, and experienced how the roasters manipulated Vulcan to perform their techniques. The organizer also carefully arranged the competition venue to be very environmentally friendly, using discarded pallets and linen decorations to add a strong retro style to the venue.

(Editor in charge: Wang Yue)

Source: Interview with The Epoch Times