International Food Festival (part 1): Ethiopian Coffee

 It got my attention. The spread-out ingredients on the floor as soon as I stepped out of the elevator and turned right into the venue.

Yes, Ethiopian friends prepared the traditional making of their coffee drinking culture.

Although I am not an avid coffee drinker, this surely ticked my inner 'adventurous' ego.

First, what do popcorn have to do with coffee? 

Then..there are real coffee, the kettle, the beans, the incense, ... 

okay, I would love to try it out and asked the lady who's serving the presentation.. 

  

It was served right in front of us...for the sake of pure and live experience. 

and...do I like it? Yes, to my surprise..I do...I mean I did.

I was taken aback for a moment as I sipped it since it was the strongest coffee I ever tasted. 

Luckily, the lady offered me some sugar ..and with two spoons of additional sugar, my first Ethiopian Coffee experience went smoothly into my memory.

Recyclable & Reusable

Found the unused box. wrapped it in a red paper.... 

and put some 'garnishing' touch on each side with white lines so as to make it look like  it is sewn. 

*Kaboossh* Done! 

Just put some chocolate sachet, tea bag sachets, white coffee, and other instant beverage sachets...

Wait..one more thing: jot something down on it.

Tea talk, Coffee talk... 

To make it irresistibly neat to look at.

that's been our way of recycling and reusing the unused box at home.

Multicultural Kids Gathering

After watching the Gayageum show, the kids seemed to be adamant of going back home. They thought that it would be too early to go home...so we decided to take them to a nearby playground where we (the parents) could sip some coffee while letting the kids play^^ 

We just let them play ...and luckily it was not that cold today. It was only 6 degrees Celsius and that was warm to our standard.^^ (Look who's talking, tropical suray:)  

We bought them some lunchbox for them to enjoy in between their playtime. 

Actually we did not buy the lunchbox at this Coffee Shop, but since we also bought some coffee here, the host just let the kids have their lunchbox there. 

The coffee-shop also provided one computer for the kids to play the games. I felt like this is intentionally designed so ..in order to let the parents do the chit-chat while their kids play some games...* not to mention the nearby playground where the Cafe was located.^^

All in all...today we did have a great time of taking the kids out..during the weekend.