Cross-cultural caffeine

June 17th, 2007

I have a confession to make. When I visited the Forbidden City in Beijing last month, I went to a little café there.

Starbucks Forbidden City

Found while emptying out my wallet.

Possibly related, but possibly totally unrelated, posts include
 "Forbidden pleasures"  "A Vanishing Point?"  "There are nine million bicycles in Beijing"  "Cultural Gaffs

One Response to “Cross-cultural caffeine”

  1. Mathew Says:

    “StarbucksCoffee Forbidden Store”.

    You may remember that Hue wrote a blog post long before i joined Exbiblio about how many seattelites don’t drink starbucks (although many do). And instead drink at small businesses. that made “forbidden store” line just made me laugh out loud.

  2. Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Cross-cultural caffeine Says:

    [...] Quentin has confessed all. While in Beijing he went to a Starbucks. I’ve seen the receipt. Huh! [...]

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