Coffee is the medium.
Taiwan is the story.

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 almost none of it has crossed the Pacific. Project 88 exists to change that, one roaster at a time.