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After nice dim sum lunch at a Chinese restaurant, Dim and I looked for a place to have cups of coffee.

Avoiding our usual haunt, we went to a recently discovered Moroccan Cafe. We have known its existence for a long time as we could see it from bus window, but we were gussing it was Greek, because of the name "Atlas" and the colours of the signage, blue and white, just as the Greek national flag.



We ordered one coffee, one Moroccan tea and one baklava. They had Italian style big coffee maschine, and made the fresh coffee on order. Moroccan tea (mint tea) arrived in a traditional metal pot, with quite a lot of sugar already in it.



In the tea pot, there were dried mint leaves as well as fresh mint sprigs. It was nice, but I don't like sweet beverage in general.

This place is also sheesha cafe, and there seemed there were hidden rooms upstairs. While we were there, about 10 boys came in and, after negotiating about the price, they all disappeared somewhere inside. Intriguing.


By the way, Since 1 July, in England the smoking in public building has completely been banned. It is not enough to go out from the building; if you want to smoke, you have to be away at least 10 metres from the exit of the building. It is pretty severe. I don't know what is going to happend with sheesha cafes. I will report when I know.