Watch: How a Small Farm Is Defining the Flavor of Hong Kong-Grown Coffee

The coffee farms were some of the many projects the government added to revive the village. What started as 40 trees has grown to more than 700. The YouTube channel Goldthread, which makes weekly videos about Chinese culture and food, recently published a video that gives an inside look at a successful Lai Chi Wo coffee harvest.

Lai Chi Wo’s coffee farms are in the northern reaches of the so-called bean belt where coffee trees grow best. The bean belt stretches from about 25 degrees north of the equator and 30 degree south. This is where you’ll find famous coffee growing regions like the coffee farms in Panama’s Chiriquí Province and the regionally specific kapeng barako grown in the Philippines.

Lai Chi Wo’s first coffee harvest was last year, and the village is working hard to define what coffee from Hong Kong tastes like.