Alanger Coffee Shop

「 A “treasure house” of slow coffee in Taitung」

Alanger Coffee Shop serves coffee made from beans of wild coffee trees growing by the Jinlun River of South Dawu Mountain at an altitude of 800 meters. The coffee shop is only 50 kilometers away from the coffee farm of the café’s owner and the mountain where the wild coffee trees grow. Are you curious about what locally grown coffee tastes like? Visit Alanger and give it a try! Alanger was the name given by Portuguese sailors to Taitung, which means a distant and beautiful place. Situated in Taitung Art Museum, the coffee shop has a “local coffee map” on its wall to educate the visitors on different characteristics and flavors of coffee grown in different areas of Taitung. The coffee shop serves coffee made with beans from Jinlun area by South-Link Highway, which have chocolate and mild fruity flavor. The owner of Alanger Hung Tien adopts multilayer farming practices for management of his coffee farm, which has created a mini ecosystem with a variety of fruit trees, wild greens and herbs. The herbs and passion fruit used for the juice and tea served by the coffee house are produced by the organic farm, which is heedfully managed by the owner Hung Tien. “I am a coffee producer. I get my coffee beans and herbs through collection and organic farming,” said Hung Tien. He has been dedicated to promotion of environmentally-friendly agriculture and cultivation of local coffee culture in Taitung. Such endeavors have made ALANGER much more than just a coffee shop; it is also a venue for implementation of an environmentally protection project.