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Travel: Provincial capital cafe serves up 'herbal coffee'

A leading traditional Chinese medicine store, Huqingyutang, recently opened a cafe selling "coffee" in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province. Unlike regular coffee, which is extracted from coffee beans, the cafe's latest offering is sourced from herbs and processed with a coffee machine. The result is a coffee-flavored herbal drink, the cafe's manager said. Mixing fresh fruits, milk and cream, the beverage tastes "better than traditional herbal soup", the manager said.