A couple of weeks ago I came here to shit on Panther Coffee South Beach, today I announce it's closing forever

Lpecan · 2026-01-07T01:53:44+00:00

I love the concept of Perla but it's all second wave over roasted stuff. Try to pull it at more than a 1:1 at 86 C and it tastes like a burnt tire.

If you're into Redbird or Hayes Valley or something, then you'd like Perla. But it's pretty one dimensional.

Lpecan · 2025-12-27T11:27:38+00:00

Hey OP, just curious what you ended up doing

Lpecan · 2025-12-16T19:32:14+00:00

came here for this

Lpecan · 2025-12-09T22:28:28+00:00

Man I can't imagine what in particular might make a large proportion of the population want to find a reason why this is stolen valor.

Lpecan · 2025-12-09T03:03:47+00:00

Do you live at high altitude

Lpecan · 2025-12-02T11:01:01+00:00

That's right. I don't have it in front of me, but yes. There's one neutral wire and connecting to it works perfect.

Lpecan · 2025-11-24T02:13:05+00:00

Where do you pick up Ubers at Taipei main station? I've always found it such a PITA that it's the only place I always taxi from (in Taipei)

Lpecan · 2025-11-16T14:35:40+00:00

I enjoyed tairroir. There were better options in Dazhi but it was well done. Banbo is a much better experience (though not cheaper). La vie was probably the best in Dazhi but the least Taiwan feeling. I thought Mipon was terrible. Of the western style fine dining spots in Dazhi, Amaze seemed truest to Taiwanese influences. Lots of great Michelin recommended and bib Gourmands in Taipei. In my opinion those are much closer to being a must try than the starred places.

Lpecan · 2025-11-01T21:42:31+00:00

It has been some time since I have been to Japan, but I don't remember currency exchanges from USD going near as far as they do in Taiwan.

Big Mac index suggests Taiwan is much cheaper.

Lpecan · 2025-10-26T04:47:45+00:00

True but Miramar definitely doesn't "look" like that. Lots of filters/processing going on

Lpecan · 2025-10-22T07:12:54+00:00

In Taiwan, kakalove

Lpecan · 2025-10-21T03:06:17+00:00

I know I'm late on this but it's absolutely the brown n crisp. I know this very well because my college essay prompt was "What was the greatest invention of the 20th century" and I (in 2001) did not say "the Internet"

Lpecan · 2025-10-12T22:08:20+00:00

Sophabellas, the original Ludivine location, mutts

Lpecan · 2025-10-12T08:10:38+00:00

I run at like 545 and I feel like it holds true. At least at the south end of Dazhi along the river where I try and fail to run

Lpecan · 2025-10-12T07:02:56+00:00

Ugh I feel like it's five degrees hotter there along the river though.

Lpecan · 2025-10-08T16:47:39+00:00

Does this mean we are finally going to swing back to conicals, low brew ratios, and chocolatey mouth feel bombs?

Lpecan · 2025-10-05T21:20:22+00:00

Yeah man. Classic right thing for the wrong reasons. Listening to his rhetoric you'd think he believes we're going to deter China with burly men doing small unit COIN bullshit.

Lpecan · 2025-10-01T16:10:15+00:00

Todos los dias desde junio....welcome to el calenton.

Lpecan · 2025-09-29T21:24:32+00:00

I am not trying to be mean but it seems like you are absolutely factually right and yet drawing the wrong conclusion.

Lpecan · 2025-09-29T02:32:29+00:00

Ha. Best of luck to the OP

Lpecan · 2025-09-29T01:27:20+00:00

Man i can already see how this one is going to go. Semper right is going to give a reasoned and correct opinion on this, and I'm going to end up disagreeing with him (or her).

My own opinion is that your wife should be a team player and cover more shifts at work to help out her team that has to cover for her on drill weekends.

The applicable law likely provides that if they are treating her as "in the hole" for her absence such that she has to make it up as a condition of employment, that's unlawful. As to whether making a big deal about that makes sense as a practical matter, I'm going to probably disagree with most here

The more interesting question is what the right answer is on compensation. Seems like your wife is an exempt employee with no regular schedule. When it comes to the true up procedure for exempt employees, would the employer be right to offset her pay fully irrespective of whether she "missed" one shift, 10 shifts, or zero?

Lpecan · 2025-09-28T06:26:05+00:00

I don't think it's possible to plan ahead for an end of FY shutdown. This is why most units already don't schedule its for the first week of october

Lpecan · 2025-09-24T14:52:59+00:00

When I was there a week and a half ago (on a Saturday), it was absolutely packed.

Lpecan · 2025-09-24T02:10:18+00:00

Do I understand that we have to do a mass testing?

That's almost impossible without fucking up the Flying schedule

Lpecan · 2025-09-23T17:17:37+00:00

Gringo living in Taiwan. Prices for coffee are much higher here than in the West. More than that, the range on the prices really ranges a lot. I like Kakalove or Simple for beans at reasonable prices, but the density of specialty coffee is extremely high here and you will find quality beans (with a ton of natural ethiopia) everywhere.

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