In Continuum.

Why Starbucks Sucks

I am officially never going to visit Starbucks ever again. I've always liked Coffee Bean, but in the past I never had a raging dislike for Starbucks. Sure, I think it is a more popular franchise in the coffee world, but let's face the truth: Starbucks sucks. That is the conclusion I came up with after my last visit to the cafe today at Plaza Singapura.

I remember trying out Starbucks for the first time in Taiwan in XiMenDing. That day was blistering cold, and the crowded streets did little to warm my freezing hands. So I decided to grab a cup of hot chocolate from Starbucks and held on to it more often than I was drinking it to be honest, because it didn't taste so good. It was forgivable in a way, because at least that cup of hot chocolate kept me warm, and thus not as worthless as it might sound.

Then the second time was in Singapore when I went out with a friend of mine. We were at Bugis, and for some strange reason I wanted to get their ice-blend, just to see if it is any better than Coffee Bean's. Turned out, that the ice were too coarse and the coffee itself didn't taste too good. That happened for the last time when I visited it with my beau right before watching the movie "The Queen", when their so-called ice-blend turned out to be the worst tasting ice-blend I have ever tasted. Their bloody idea of an ice-blend is to have the cold coffee with ice floating on top of it. They must have missed out the crucial word "blend", because I didn't see any blenders being involved in the production of that horrid drink.

Today was a little different as I made my way down to Plaza Singapura. A part of it was because I wanted to meet my beau out of impulse, and the other reason was the fact that I am just about to finish Gone With The Wind, so why not try to finish it in the cafe? So I ordered the Iced Mocha Americano and sat myself down in the corner of the cafe and drank one sip of the supposed coffee and almost died on the spot. Because really, that was the most horrid drink I have ever tasted, and even worse than all the alcoholic drinks that I've had in my life.

The quality of the drink aside, for some reason, every single time I visit Starbucks, their plastic cups will be leaking. Always dripping coffee out of the sides as I drink, and they should be lucky that none of those dripped onto my shirt or else somebody might appear in tomorrow morning's headlines, being drowned in a tub of coffee beans.

My ass cracked on top of the seats, and I missed the straw seats that they have over at Coffee Beans. I like Coffee Bean simply because of the drinks that they have(Which is always good), and of course the comfort. Even the non-sofa seats are relatively comfortable compared to the ones in Starbucks. In fact, I reckon that long exposure of your buttock to the surface of the chairs provided will cause a permanent damage to your anus, I swear.

Therefore, I am probably never going to visit Starbucks anymore. It's not like I have been visiting it very often, and that they are going to lose a valued customer. But still, a customer is a customer, and I cannot imagine myself ever studying for long hours in that cafe. Imagine the medical bills involved after one day of intense studying, and not to forget the surgery afterwards on the buttock area. That is of course, if you do not get any poisoning from the drinks that they serve.

So what if Starbucks is more famous than Coffee Bean. I say Coffee Bean is like indie music. You don't need to be mainstream to be good.