Yunnan coffee

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.

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.

coffee roasters and baristas.

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

And you do see that Chinese cafe operators or coffee industry people trying to innovate by combining coffee with some more traditional Chinese element, such as using ceramics brewers or creating signature drinks that's using Chinese ingredients.

such as hawthorn berries, which is a sour berry that you don't find much outside of China.

Most of the coffee grown in China is consumed there too, but Kelly says we're beginning to see Yunnan coffee pop up here in New Zealand.

There are some small roasteries who you can occasionally get Yunnan coffee.