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Hubs Tong

Hubs Tong

Hubs Tong (Haobo Tong) is a New Zealand-based coffee professional, head of education at MQ Coffee in Auckland and co-owner of the café Mutual Friends.

Sep 13, 2026

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4:24
Starbucks Morning Yes.
4:25
Starbucks was the first young trendy coffee brand that landed in China and from that point on coffee has been seen in China as a status symbol or whether you're keeping up with the age of society or if you're if you're someone cool or someone not.
4:44
And then with Starbucks helping China growing Yunnan coffee, it's like a butterfly effect that influenced a whole generation of coffee growers, coffee producers, coffee producers.
5:01
coffee roasters and baristas.
5:03
People started looking at opening their own specialty coffee store because the industry is really really new.
5:08
So it kind of took on all of the most modern and advanced coffee research and coffee theory at the time that I was offering.
5:22
So espresso coffee is not the most popular amongst specialty coffee drinkers in China.
7:13
coffees? Other origins? Yeah.

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