Project 88 A Taiwan Coffee Journal

Discover Taiwan
through coffee.

Project 88 shares the cafés, roasters, and stories shaping one of the world's most exciting coffee cultures.

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01 — Why Taiwan

An island that treats coffee as craft.

Most people know Taiwan for bubble tea, night markets, and semiconductors. Fewer know it as one of the most quietly sophisticated coffee cultures on earth.

Taipei alone holds thousands of cafés — many of them intimate, owner-run rooms where the person pulling your shot sourced the beans, roasted them, and can tell you the name of the farmer. World Barista and Brewers Cup champions run neighborhood shops here. High in the mountains of Alishan, farmers grow some of the rarest specialty coffee in Asia on misty slopes once known only for tea.

It is a culture built on patience, precision, and hospitality — and most of the world has never tasted it.

15,000+
Cafés across the island
1,200m
Elevation of Alishan's coffee farms
Nº1
Home of world champion baristas & roasters

02 — Features

Field notes from
the island.

Guides and profiles from Taiwan's coffee world — written slowly, the way the culture deserves.

03 — Our Story

A bridge between
two homes, named 88.

Project 88 began with my parents, who immigrated to Los Angeles from Taiwan — carrying the island's hospitality, patience, and craft into everything they built here.

In Chinese culture, the number eight (八) carries prosperity and good fortune. Doubled, it is a wish made twice: for the place we come from, and the place we call home.

People already love Taiwan for its food, its tea, its night markets. We're here to introduce the next chapter: one of the world's great coffee cultures — one café, one roaster, one cup at a time.

Tea terraces in Taiwan's high mountains
Eight — prosperity & fortune
八八
Doubled — a wish made twice
Coffee is the medium.
Taiwan is the story.

04 — Join the Journey

Travel with us.

Follow our journey as we explore Taiwan's specialty coffee culture — new cafés, roaster stories, and first access to our curated coffee collections.

One thoughtful letter at a time. No noise, ever.

謝謝 — welcome to the journey. Your first letter is on its way.