Coffee Hall — Restaurant in New Taipei

Iced coffee was good. Cappuccino was terrible. It had basil in it, which tasted so weird. The staff was quite rude. Both staff members (one might be the owner) were rude and gave off a sense of arrogance rather than an eagerness to please customers so they would want to come back. We arrived at 5 PM, and the place was almost empty, which is not unusual for a café. We were a group of four and spotted a table for three that could easily accommodate four. We proceeded to move a chair so we could all sit together. They rushed over immediately and said we could not move the chairs. Fine, so they are weird about customers moving chairs. We chose another table that had enough chairs for all of us. We noticed that they had a sign on the tables with a list of rules, and one of them stated, “Do not move the antique chairs.” I suspect there might be some confusion between the words “antique” and “old.”

We proceeded to order and asked the waitress if they had any drinks that did not have caffeine. The waitress pointed out a drink, but my 5-year-old son didn’t want it. We saw that they had fruit tea on the menu and asked how the fruit tea was made so maybe we could modify it for my son. She said it’s hot tea with real fruit and honey. We asked if we could just get the fruit and honey and add hot water instead of tea. She said she could not, as that’s how they make it and the flavor would be off. We told her that’s fine, but this is how we want it made, so why can’t she do it? She kept saying she could not. We told her that we know it won’t taste the same, but our son will be fine with it as it is basically honey water. She utterly refused to make this accommodation and kept saying the same thing about how this is not how they make it and the flavor won’t be the same. It was so frustrating how simple-minded she was being, especially if a customer is acknowledging the results and the request is not unreasonable. Definitely would not spend my...

Great location and atmosphere but the waffles are a little heavy and the service is a bit slow. The almond milk tea was nice.

Im a little disappointed the food isnt that good because the space rocks in terms of a cool environment to sit and enjoy coffee. That might explain the low ratings on google.

The coffee is quite good so if you are just into that you will probably love the place. The environment does have a relaxing feel...try it and see. Im always curious to see what...

回甘

高中同學傳訊息給我，要我一起去喝個咖啡，因為高中老師跟他們一起在附近的咖啡館聚會著。

按圖索驥到了地點之後，這才發現這家店我之前其實來過兩次！其實對咖啡沒特別愛好的我，居然都去過兩回。還記得上一回來是當皮條客，幫老是相親失敗的老友介紹妹子的。進去之後，發現多年來風格與裝潢都沒啥改變，這家店可能是老闆自有的吧？我猜。

一位是我高三的導師，她先生是我一二年級時期的歷史老師，也都是家父的同事；印象中畢業之後在大學時期還被同學抓著一起去老師家一次，就沒見過他們二老。畢竟壞學生總是不適合去看老師的。哈哈哈～

其實師丈與我父親算是熟的，辦公室的座位就在其左手。在我還沒進那所高中時，就認識他了。加上他們都各教過我兩年，多少算是知道我的毛病：不讀書。師丈說過的話我其實只記得一句，但不是他親口告訴我的，而是家母事後轉述的。大學聯考在考數學那科預備鐘響之後，他說：你家小胖子等等就要肚子疼了！母親很平鋪直敘地轉述這句話，我聽了之後告訴她：我疼甚麼？我是進去休息的。一到能交卷的時間，我唯一會的一兩題早就解完了，不離開教室難道在裡面等著偷看別人的答案嗎？

「女人會離開你，兄弟會背叛你，但數學不會。數學不會就是不會。」這是網路金句，似乎頗有老師當年對我之於數學的看法。其實，我很想說的是，難道英文不會你就會了嗎？哪一科不會，就是不會啊！只是其它科有很多選擇題，可以亂猜，即便是倒扣，也很難猜到低於五分以下這種狀況。數學不過是選擇題沒幾題，你很可能猜不中而已。而且我也不覺得不會有甚麼丟臉之處。

多年過去了，老師們的聲線其實沒啥改變，有臉盲面孔辨識障礙的我，依然可以認出他們。聊天的過程比較像是與稍微年長的平輩，不過比同儕的對話更多了些人生的感慨或是回味。雖然是喝著蒸餾的黑咖啡，還多了種人生的回甘感。

之後，師丈加了我的Line，在第一句表明身分之後的話就是：你黃老師要你減重！哈哈哈哈哈～

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