Wifi, air-conditioner and ice-drinks are three indispensable things in hot summer. In Guangzhou, there are several fantastic bookstores which can meet all your needs. Here you can order an iced-drink, select a delightful book and find a haven of tranquility.
1200bookshop
1200bookshop is the first 24 hours bookstore in Guangzhou, lighting up a late-night lamp for the city. It sells books, coffee as well as simple meals.
Recommendation: Scented Tea
Scented Tea is processed from quality green tea and scented with fresh jasmine flowers. The prosperity Green tea leaves are young with white hairs and scented with freshly picked flowers.
Hetian Study (禾田书房)
The book store is situated inside the Dong Fang Hong Creative Design Center in Haizhu District, shaded by trees. You can see old chimney and red wall, which highlights the elegance and brightness of the white house. Recommendation: Honey citron tea
Korean Honey Citron Tea is a Korean traditional tea made from thinly sliced yuja or citron with its peel and combined with honey. Honey citron tea is usually served hot and can be served after meal or by itself, taste like the mix of lemon and honey.
Fang Suo Commune 方所书店
Originally, it is a unique and perfect cultural combination of bookstore, esthetical life store, coffee house, art gallery and exceptive clothing store.
Here you can read while drinking coffee; you can walk around while feeling the elegant artistic atmosphere.
Recommendation: Latte
If you're reading a book this elegant atmosphere, a pretty foam heart on top of a good cup of coffee is an easy, extra-special way to impress you.
Tangning Bookstore (唐宁书店)
The bookstore mainly sales quality culture books, targeting businessmen and culture elites. Tangning Bookstore has music workshop, coffee shop, salon, etc. With unique style and thoughtful service, it has now become one of the landmarks in Guangzhou.
Recommendation: Black Tea
Different from green tea, black tea is a kind of fermented tea that made from new shoots of tea leaves which are wilted, rolled, fermented and dried. And then its color changes from green to black. In western culture, people, prefer to add milk, sugar and lemon into the hot black tea while Chinese people pay more attention to the pure and original taste of tea.
UN Book Store (联合书店)
High-quality bookstore of Hong Kong style
UN Book Store is a comprehensive bookstore seated in a building of six stories. Its orientation and management idea is “humanity, art, quality life”, so the bookstore is full of vitality and humanistic atmosphere. It’s also a bookstore with strong modern sense.You can enjoy art, literature and life at the same time at the same place.
Recommendation: Cappuccino
You can imagine the freedom and comfort to immerge in cocoa milk like delicious Cappuccino, and have a relaxed mood!
(By Ricky & Xiaowen)
