Hawking Dragon Ale

The Drunken Master’s mantra in his move from global megastar to pushing joe is “Chinese coffee for Chinese people.” Best we can tell, this means aping Starbucks, but with more photos of Jackie Chan. As far as imitations go though, this isn’t too bad a job. Our cappuccino (¥25) and hot chocolate (¥22), available in tall, grande, and dragon sizes (both ours were grandes, though we thought long and hard about ordering a “dragon”), didn’t do much to distinguish itself from the coffee bean and cocoa juice purveyed by the ‘Bucks, but then again, with the profits benefiting Jackie’s various charities, we’d probably rather come back to his café than walk the extra twenty meters to its spiritual predecessor. -Matt Schrader