"Good taste? Haha, then it's unbeatable."
Su Bai tossed out a casual quip, his expression fairly bland.
He had noticed that ever since he got rich, he encountered more and more flattery in daily life.
Treating people according to their status was an essential skill for anyone in society.
Even that greasy old man he had run into while hiking had stopped babbling nonsense and lecturing him after seeing the watch he wore.
"This coffee bean variety is different from the coffee usually sold outside. Its flavors are clearer, but people who don't drink coffee often will find it hard to accept..."
The young clerk introduced it with considerable pride.
Su Bai nodded slightly out of courtesy.
In reality, he did not drink coffee often.
He had ordered this one because, while at the lakeside villa that morning, he had ordered a cup of pour-over coffee made by the maid.
It had used these coffee beans called Castillo.
Su Bai merely wanted to compare the coffee made by the maid with the one made at the café.
According to the maid herself, pour-over coffee was not extracted thoroughly enough, so it tended to be somewhat more acidic.
These were things Su Bai had never bothered trying before. Whenever he really needed a pick-me-up, a packet of extra-strong instant black coffee costing just a few cents did the job.
The old Su Bai had always kept his distance from cafés with this sort of middle-class artsy vibe.
A thirty-four-yuan cup of coffee could have bought him several meals of the five-yuan-plus poor student set at the cafeteria.
It was clear that people's hobbies changed according to the thickness of their wallets.
With money and free time, anyone could develop a wide range of interests.
"Su Bai, I heard you guys went