Parallel World

It’s an…okay day, that is neither heavily raining nor bloody-helly sun-shining.

There is a cafe called Jane’s Place in Huafa New Town. It’s quite western style, with bar and cafe services mixed. The menu is obviously re-designed to meet Chinese flavor, but they have the authentic cheese, and Bockwurst sausages!! Coffee are those regular choices, but they do ice coffee besides the hot ones. The room’s of moderate size, simply decorated, with one AC and several wall mounted and ceiling hanged fans. Foreign customers are often seen in and out. Generally it’s a lovely place feeling like a coffee shop from the west, and I like it.

I have never met the owner of this place, at least I can’t tell her apart from the rest of the staff. I assume she (presumably it’s a lady guessing by the name, and there is a SHE in the picture above presenting the shop…) is either a native westerner or has a western mind developed from her rich experience working and living in the western world. A lot of ‘cafe’ have I been to, few of them made me feel real. The word Shan Zhai is not a new entry to the dictionary which best describes most coffee shops I tried. They are pretentious. Oops I’m not judging them on a ‘Being humble, being filled with modesty’ basis, but ehh, whatever. My point here is that the very mind behind the operation of this business is what makes it unique and fancy.

This uniqueness is unduplicable. No minds are identical. That’s why we are all different.