| | Today was SUCH a good day.
The day dawned clear and semi-warm (warm for a winter in Hangzhou, at least). I was up relatively early and left around 10:30am to go to METRO and purchase a new coffee press. I got to METRO and couldn't find an actual coffee press that wasn't glass (my last glass coffee press that I bought in China shattered in my hands out of the blue one day). I started looking around at other containers. I finally found a metal coffee pot that had a basket that sat on the rim of the coffee pot reaching down towards the bottom. Usually you brew tea in them. Some of them do well with coffee, but it just depends on how well they're made. It was 156 RMB for this thing but it ended up being the best coffee press-like thing I could find that wasn't glass or a coffeemaker (after working at Starbucks I really prefer coffee press coffee). So I purchased it, brought it home and washed it. Before I came home I took a walk down a side street by METRO and found a tiny restaurant selling pork dumplings with carrot (YUM!) so I had lunch. Then I walked around for another 45 min before heading back to the bus stop to get on the bus and come home.
Around 5pm I decided to try out my new coffee pot. I put some Starbucks Christmas blend in the basket, heated water in my water kettle and poured it in over the grounds. Surprisingly my whole water kettle went into the pot and there was still room. "Wow," I thought and went to heat more water. I poured about 4/5 of the second pot into the coffee pot before it was full. I couldn't believe it held that much water. I was ecstatic. I believe there was some celebration in the form of me jumping up and down. The coffee was fabulous. My 156 RMB gamble turned out to be a gem. I was in love. Around 6pm I got a call from Carol. She and Hamia were going to Wumei to get a few things (Carol wanted to ask Hamia to help her pick out a good brand of cooking oil, vinegar and soy sauce since not all of them have English on the bottles and some of the best ones are only in Chinese) and then they were going to dinner. She asked if I wanted to come along. I looked at my still-rather-full coffee pot, shrugged and said yes. I figured it would be a good test to see how long my insulated metal pot kept my coffee warm. The evening passed pleasantly as both Carol and Hamia are super fun people to be around. And then I headed home to my coffee pot test....
At approximately 9:05pm I poured a cup of coffee. It was piping hot. As if I had never left it. I was amazed. From 5pm when I first brewed the coffee to 9pm and it was still hot! WOW! Actually it's 10pm now and the coffee is STILL hot. That's it. I am totally in love. I am currently planning exactly how I will get this coffee pot safely home to the US with me when I go back.
Ah. I love this day. It was pretty close to perfect. |
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