The coffee crisis is over. My Melitta cone filter had been left behind when I moved from Yutai to Weishan. In the meanwhile, I had been forced to drink Nescafe instant. My friends back home were horrified! A flotilla of mercy vessels stocked with dark-roasted beans was being prepped to sail from Sausalito. But at the very last moment, my precious #2 cone made it's way to Weishan. By searching the intertubes, I found an American micro-roaster in China that would ship a pound of decent dark beans to me (shade grown, fair trade, free-range and home-schooled), ground for cone filter, for US$8.00 delivered. It got even better: the next day, my url=http://s.taobao.com/search?q=toaster&commend=all&ssid=s5-e-p1&search_type=item&atype=&filterFineness=new toaster arrived from Taobao.c
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