Dim lighting, a melodious piano tune, the air carrying a peculiar scent.
There are a dozen rows of booths in the hall, yet only a few customers, empty and desolate... So this is what a coffeehouse is like.
The Binjiang people don't really like drinking coffee, or to put it another way, they don't have the habit of drinking it.
In fact, it's not just coffee they don't particularly enjoy; they hardly drink tea either. All the teahouses in Binjiang, including several districts and counties, might not even add up to the number in a single township across the river.
In the end, it's still due to poverty. Everyone is busy making money to support their families—who has extra cash and leisure to drink tea or coffee?
Once people are poor, they tend to be uncouth.
Being uncouth leads to being looked down upon.
