Starbucks Experience

Starbucks is a famous coffee house in the world. It gives the good situation for people to enjoy coffee and feel relax. On 21st February 2009 (Saturday), the teacher brought my classmates and I go to Starbucks. When I came to Malaysia, this isn’t my first time go to there, but it’s the first time I tasted coffee. Before day, I ever visited twice with my friend but I never ordered coffee. I always ordered Mango Juice, is it funny? Usually people go to Starbucks to drink coffee, but I’m not. I don’t like coffee, so I don’t know what coffee taste is. After this experience, I know it. Even though I don’t like coffee but it is good opportunity to learn about coffee.

When we arrived at Starbucks, the teacher called all of us enter and take a sit, that time inside the cafe sit not only our class, but also other customers. A worker that will explain about Starbucks, he introduced himself first. After that, other worker gave a cappuccino with ice to all of customers. Then I tasted it, when it enter on my mouth, I feel like ice-cream but after on my tongue the sweet of cappuccino less. The lecture explained the coffee species, one is Arabica and other is Robusta. For Starbucks, they use Arabica one. It is the best bean and has high quality. They seek only the finest, richest and most interesting beans. That’s way Starbucks coffee is considering for the customers as the best coffee.

He introduced region which is growing coffee from Latin America, Africa/Arabia and Asia/Pacific. Then we taste the original Espresso, Sumatra, Robusta and Latin America coffee without put sugar. Before I drunk, he teach the four steps of coffee tasting: the first smell, slurp, locate the experience on your tongue and then create a coffee description. After I tasted I find that the four kind of coffees that I drunk have different flavors, but I think same aroma.

The Starbucks also provide the cake, biscuit and foods. Starbucks suggest that some of the foods pair with coffee which is more delicious if you eat together the food. Starbucks not only sell coffee but also have juice. After finish presentation, they give each person one door gift. I was so happy when accept this. The gift is a cup Starbucks and Espresso coffee. But I’m not drink the coffee. I gave to my friend because my friend loves it.

I think that going to Starbucks it’s a good experience, although I don’t like coffee. But I have learned history of Starbuck, how to taste coffee and also that I didn’t know before, whenever just go and try it.