Across China: Starbucks cultivates growing taste of coffee in China
(WorldNews China)

HEFEI, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- In a country with time-honored tea culture, Su Yang (pseudonym), on the contrary, has developed a habit of drinking coffee largely due to the influence of Starbucks. `It`s difficult to start a day without a cup of coffee,` said Su, a 29-year-old white-collar worker in Hefei, capital of east China`s Anhui Province, where the first Starbucks coffeehouse opened in 2011. In 1999, the first Starbucks outlet on the Chinese mainland opened in Beijing, a pioneering move to nurture a taste of...