Bought the grinder in Shinjuku long time ago, used it for a while, but later became troublesome and it's been kept in the cabinet for a while. It "came out" once in a while when people gave us coffee beans brought from like Hawaii or overseas, or some specialty coffee occasion.
A couple of weeks ago, it happens to be useful again. Took it out, and so took a few photos of it.
I just finished reading a book written by Kota Matsuda, the founder of Tully's Coffee, Japan. Apparently, Tully's Japan is purely Japan's own originality. All the while I thought all this coffee boom were from the States — basically they are though — and never knew that Tully's Japan was started by Kota Matsuda himself. Tully's Coffee Japan was listed on Nasdaq Japan (now Hercules) on July 2001, whereas Starbucks listed only in October the same year.
Later, I found myself couldn't afford to have such luxuries anymore. It didn't make me rich, or I didn't have earn enough to enjoy those coffee for everyday. Things needed some changes, or a lot.
I used to like Tully's a lot more than Starbucks. I don't know, I seem to hate to follow the trend of majority, accept once that I found Starbucks sells sausage egg muffin.
My addition to sausage egg muffin initially came from McDonald's morning set, I think. With that and a cup of coffee, that's how my day started. . . Lots of remembrance related to the one cup of coffee.
