小林冰堂 咖啡甜品屋 — Restaurant in Luodong

koba (abbreviated from kobayahsi) ice box

kib (on all your tees & merch)

beryl (vancouver & taipei) the proprietor extraordinaire of this faultless finest of japanese-style / upscale & hipster / italian-gelato-serving great coffee & latte-making, with matcha ice cream coffee sundaes i mean if you put jp + it + tw (yes beryl also does the red beans with the mochi traditional? Taiwanese desserts) jpittw? jptwit? ah love fusion naming: japanitai

raison for this ice box / this simple wooden box (of an exterior) this sand box (beryl & hub have a 3-year-old playing behind the window, in front of the couch, with his miniatures and markers) ?

for the love of fur one beloved schnauzer getting on beryl felt his days were nearing their end & she wanted to spend more time with him & start a family new life follows beloved departing

the image of fur friend is on the menu & as a statue in store

so hub in tow (or hub in lead) made their way to luodong from taipei to hometown for this dessert-maven homebody where she’s made a home for her family of 3

peak of covid madness luodong locals are dodging any new face like they carried the plague (a simile isn’t required here) for many the apocalypse has come

I call it the lean & cross over they’ll lean from you & cross the street when they see you it’s nothing more/less than primal: people fear when fear abounds

people take on the collective guilt or complex or drive towards success

we’re social animals

& now like birds when 1 sounds the alarm the rest take flight take shelter & watch out for that predator in the sky

I see this in a play I have in mind about taiwan

& what does someone like beryl do? (& I do believe that in a crisis is when the grit (lol true grit--great movie) the truth of it comes

it comes like a gush from a geyser or trickles like a simile simile lol jeesh how reliant are we on visuals to make writing more appealing

the sum of it is this:

alert 3 put a mighty dampener on biz all about

if it weren’t for alert 3 i’d be in kib with buds this fine brunchy sunday enjoying a red bean matcha ice cream mochi beauty of a dessert at the hands of beryl

or some of her fine coffee to waken my senses or just 6 flavours of ice cream & gelatos (kiwi & mango & strawberry) in a bucket of self-love&loathing

in that cute little setup of a store with her vintage furniture

with her 3-year-old maybe toying about or running amuck

& we got to talking about her kid (name unknown--not yet named? i kid but wouldn't it be great if it were not for the purpose of identification we allow people to come to their own names, to discover themselves, then name--if names be needed--as according to & as changeable as that of prince per album cover?)

beryl (on boy yet to be named by himself): he’s so independent so willful (i say: wonderful)

this was alluding to what the system (here & anywhere though here more than anywhere) does to the spirit: contains it willfully shapes it subdues it enslaves it

yes no system aims for your freedom

you’re part of something that wants you to remain as you are so you are a reliable part of it

i want no part of the pyramid

nor should anyone

all i want is little shops like beryl’s

& all of us to brunch together

every sunday

as jezeus intended the jews & the greeks oh & the christians ofc jews 2.0 & the muslims jews splinter faction (gosh i’m messy on my religicon but you get my drift: we’re all 1)

for brunching goes that...

Not tourist friendly. There’s a minimum spend of 120 per person but it was not mentioned to us earlier. And they will not accept if you combine the bill, each person must order something that is at least 120. They rather refund our money and not serve us. Don’t...

Cakes are from toothless bakery tasted ok. The matcha latte in the end is all tea flavor. All I can recommend is their atmosphere but there are too many old buildings coffee shops...