Friday, 12 September 2008

Cheese & Go On at Colour Brown!

When you go down See Cheung Street at the edge of the old part of town in Sai Kung, you will for sure notice the smell from the loads of Seafood Restaurants and the Boat engine repair shop hosted in that Street, and then you might wonder where the smell of fresh roasted coffee, which catches your nose from a far distance, suddenly appears from. In one -or more- of the previous post, I've mentioned having a coffee at my favorite Cafe in Sai Kung. No, it is not the Starbucks one, even they are also present. No, the Cafe I am referring to and like to go to is called Colour Brown.
This small Cafe is squeezed in between an art school for children and a gas stove shop in a maybe 500 square feet small local. The cafe is owned by a young Chinese couple who import fresh coffee beans and then roast and grind them in their cafe.
Along with the most common varieties; expresso, cappuccino and latte, you will find honey ginger coffee and coffee from fresh roasted coffee beans from Jamaica, Sumatra, Columbia, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Honduras, Cuba, Kenya, papa New Guinea and, year -you name it. As an exotic variety, why not try the Pink- or Purple Rose coffee or Lavender- Camomile- Peppermint- Lemon Grass or Jasmine coffee?

For tea drinkers the choice isn't any smaller. A large selection of Fruit and Herbal is offered in big nice glass teapots and served wit nice runny honey. For the hunger you 'll find home made cakes, various soups and sandwiches.
The Cafe is small but very cosy arranged and on the walls you will find some changing exhibitions of -I guess- local artists. At the moment it is large prints of the Cafe's own and most famous trademark; the two dogs Cheese & Go On. If you want to find Colour Brown and ask around in Sai Kung for the Cafe, many of the locals might not know, but if you ask about the two small brown dogs;
Cheese and Go On, the most will lighten up in a smile and start pointing in one or another direction.
Most of the day these two dogs hang around outside the entrance, enjoying the cool air stream of a big fan blowing on them, and gets excited from the attention of the guests or the passing pedestrians, who often stop for
a little while, for a cuddle and a little chat by those two small brown fellars.
If you should pass by and find the cafe empty -here I mean the owner isn't there- you should probably just have a look in the little Chinese teashop, just across the street. Either he is there, or -if there is no dogs outside- he has taken them for a walk around town.

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