Xen Coffee is an independent siphon coffee bar in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. Xen Coffee's first coffee shop was in

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. Xen Coffee serves highly selective

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from Africa,

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, Central and South

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. Xen Coffee was awarded Best

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Cafe in Hong Kong for its effort as a pioneer in promoting Fair Trade products like

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from

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, organic coffee from Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and the

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in Hong Kong. ''

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'' magazine (Hong Kong edition) has selected Xen Coffee as one of Hong Kong's 20 Best Coffee Spots. Xen Coffee has also been covered in ''My Coffee Guide'' written by Moses Chan, a coffee geek and celebrity in Hong Kong. Helen Chow, the head Siphonist of Xen Coffee was awarded the title of World Siphonist by the

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(SCAJ) to honor her achievement as second runner-up in the World Siphonist Championship (WSC) 2010. The founder of Xen Coffee, Dixon Ip, is the first person in China to obtain certifications from both the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) and Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) as SCAA Cupping Judge and CQI Licensed Q Grader. Xen Coffee focuses on educating the local community on coffee beyond espressoBeyond Espresso
''SPLUX Magazine''. March 2010. and promoting the concept of enjoying specialty coffee from single origins.

Siphon coffee history in Hong Kong

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has been a more common beverage than

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during the 1960s to 1980s. Thanks to the opening of Pacific Coffee Company, the first Seattle coffee house in 1992, coffee became a very popular drink in Hong Kong. Hong Kong people were then exposed to all kinds of European-style coffee such as

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and

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. In Hong Kong, the very first appearance of a siphon coffee maker was in the 1970s, at a coffee shop (which may also be the city's first bona-fide coffee shop) on Patterson Street, Causeway.

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品味速遞咖啡
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300秒等一口香醇咖啡
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飲出咖啡新文化
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''HK Magazine''. 10–12 July 2009.
咖啡的輕和重
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Green Coffee
''飲食男女''. 5 February 2010. *虹吸式咖啡【生活加油站】. '' Asia Television 亞洲電視本港台''. 11 March 2010. *手調沖泡咖啡【生活加油站】. '' Asia Television 亞洲電視本港台''. 18 March 2010. *有机咖啡馆
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【乐活时尚坊】. ''

China Entertainment Television China Entertainment Television (CETV) was a Mandarin Chinese-language satellite television channel in the Greater China region, owned jointly by the Hong Kong-based TOM Group (majority shareholder) and the United States’ TBS Networks (36 ...

华娱卫视''. 18 March 2010.
Hong Kong coffee experts share their love of the brew
'' CNNGo''. 15 April 2010.
簡單生活料理 – 有機咖啡
��美食法庭】. '' i-CABLE 有線寬頻''. 25 April 2010.
穏やかな香りに包まれて本格珈琲を
''Pocket Page Weekly''. 1 June 2010.
World Barista Championship Go Live Partners Asia/Pacific Region
'' World Barista Championship''. June 2010.
Dixon Ip – Coffee Expert
��Morning Brew】. ''

Radio Television Hong Kong Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is the public broadcasting service in Hong Kong. GOW, the predecessor to RTHK, was established in 1928 as the first broadcasting service in Hong Kong. As a government department under the Commerce and Econom ...

RTHK Radio 3''. 28 July 2010.
Liquid highs in Hong Kong
'' CNNGo''. 13 August 2010.

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Siphon coffee history in Hong Kong

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