As I was moving up on the escalator,I saw this nice view of a group of men having drinks at 0'Briens-my favourite cafe.I got nothing against Starbuck if someone would take me and pay for my drink but given the choice I prefer O'Briens for the coffee and the sandwiches.
My first encounter with high cost kedaikopi(coffe shop) was at Delifrance located next to The Tangs Orchard Rd ,Singapore in late 80's. In the 90's, the cafe phenomena invaded Kuala lumpur and today you can see them every where, including kopitiam.
As a frequent visitor to cafes and kopitiam,I have yet to see the cafe culture.What I saw was the nicely decorated places where people who have more money to spend come for a snack and casual chat and business discussion,then off they go.With the local wifi, I saw more and more people are working online or just surfing the Internet with their laptops.And that is our Malaysian cafe culture!
By the way I hosted a Deep Conversation session in march,2004.
You can read more about World Cafe here.I tried to take do something similar but it failed to take off.Now, my priority has changed as I am approaching my golden age.
Below is what I wrote more than 10 years ago in my alumni mailinglist list.
| Date: | Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:15:34 +0100 |
| From: | "a.d.i.b" <adib@pc.jaring.my>  Add to Address Book |
| To: | sdara@egroups.com |
| Subject: | [sdar] Best Cafe in Town |
ASM sdara,
Most of us frequent a few TT(teh tarik) stalls and some who have more money to
spend will frequent a few coffee houses at a few hotels or cafe/tea
outlets.In Melawati,we used to go to Restoran Nora;in Desa Pandan we
used to have TT at D'Taj and a few months back a sdara gathering
arranged by Ampangbear,we have coffee at San Francisco coffee outlet at
Ampang Points.Lately,Bond told me Starbuck coffee has opened an outlet
at KL Plaza.It is observed that the cafe culture is invading us in all
major and small towns all over Malaysia.And Teh Tarik is now our
national pastime?
Please give your views on this cafe culture and at the same time please
also suggest the best cafe/TT stalls just in case some of us happen to
visit your place or the places you have been-local or overseas.
Best regards,
-/a.d.i.b/-
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and
the last fish been caught,will we realise that we can not eat
money".-Cree Indian saying.
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