Correct! Coffee drinkers are the people I'm after.. Not at all a homogeneous group to look into. Perhaps that is one reason why not much has been written about their preferences before, especially in relation to Yunnan coffee. I understand there are some problems relating to the reliability and validity om my research but for this thesis I am happy just to provide some insight into the Chinese coffee drinking habits here in Kunming. It is just a master's thesis... May I ask what you guys think of the coffee grown here in Yunnan?

@Lucky Lucy. Where do you go to have your daily cup of coffee? Appears that most high school students drink coffee but let go of the habit when school is over. But you didn't. Do you have any favorite kind of coffee? Or favorite coffee country?

Recently came back from Vietnam, so I don't rate Yunnan coffee or the coffee drinking culture here highly. To be fair, it's no better elsewhere in China.

However, I did have a cup of great coffee grown in Yunnan by the Hani Coffee Co. The beans were good quality and roasted well and served great. www.hanicoffee.com/

I also met someone studying coffee growers in Yunnan, and it seems more coffee will be planted despite low water resources. Seems the cash crop more than pays for the water intensive nature of growing coffee. So there is a future for coffee in Yunnan, but like Chinese wine, it's a long ways off.

I love Columbian, Alta Rican, etc. However, I have paid the extra for imported coffees and been served with cheap coffee.

That is why I only drink Yunnan coffee in Yunnan, and the cheapest coffee anywhere else in China. The only exception is if I buy coffee in Starbucks, and even then original coffee is not guaranteed.

Don't know about Chinese but would say, I love Chinese food with red wine.