
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.
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Sep 13, 2026
China/Kiwi Coffee Crossover
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Starbucks Morning Yes.

Hubs TongGUEST
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.

Hubs TongGUEST
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.

Hubs TongGUEST
People started looking at opening their own specialty coffee store because the industry is really really new.

Hubs TongGUEST
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.

Hubs TongGUEST
So espresso coffee is not the most popular amongst specialty coffee drinkers in China.
