The Tasse Coffee story
“Tasse” is French for cup. Everything we do — the Hong Kong coffee lab, this events practice, the Tokyo roastery — starts from the same idea: one cup, made properly, can carry culture, craft and opportunity to anyone.
Tasse Coffee is a Hong Kong certified social enterprise. From the beginning we have used coffee education to open doors — running skills training for young people, elders, people out of work and people with disabilities, and placing part of our drip-bag packing work with community partners so income reaches those who need a way back in. The coffee volunteer team still visits welfare organisations through the year. It is slow, unglamorous work, and it is the reason the company exists.
「To pass on culture through education, and create opportunity through craft.」
Tasse Coffee
The people behind it
Candice found coffee working in cafés on the Gold Coast and in Melbourne, and came home to qualify as an SCA barista trainer. Since 2021 she has also taught on the Employees Retraining Board programme, coaching people who are finding their way back into work. She opened Tasse Coffee in October 2020 — mid-pandemic, two students at a time — and built it into the training campus it is today.
A design strategist by training, Wing turned to specialty coffee in 2015 and now runs Tasse Coffee Roastery in Takadanobaba, Tokyo — choosing, roasting and cupping every lot himself. An SCA Authorized Trainer, CQI Q Instructor, City & Guilds examiner and championship sensory judge, he is also the author of The Roasting Bible book series, and the bridge between the Hong Kong and Japan coffee communities.
The Hong Kong coffee lab, this events team, and our Tokyo roastery — three brands running on the same beans, the same instructors, the same standards.
The Hong Kong coffee lab
Personal SCA courses, retail beans and barista gear — where it all started, in Kwai Chung.
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Coffee training and event catering for companies, NGOs, schools and government — this site.
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Tokyo · Takadanobaba
Our Japan roastery and café, roasting for both cities.
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Specialty Coffee Association
Coffee Quality Institute
City & Guilds
Training Qualifications UK
Latte Art Grading SystemIn the press
Our story has been told by others too — usually about the classroom, sometimes about what a cup of coffee can change.
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