Fika Fika Cafe

Fika Fika Cafe is a Taipei specialty roaster founded in 2013 by Chen Zhihuang (陳志煌), whose founding year doubled as a competitive breakthrough: he traveled to Scandinavia and won dual titles at the Nordic Coffee Roasting Competition, taking both the Espresso category championship and the overall grand championship across all categories. He was the first competitor from outside a Nordic country to claim the honor. The café's name borrows from the Swedish ritual of pausing for coffee and conversation—a deliberate signal of the Nordic philosophy the brand would carry back to Taiwan.

Chen opened the first location on Yitong Street in Taipei's Zhongshan district the same year as those wins, building a roaster-café at a moment when Taiwan's specialty coffee scene was still finding its footing. The brand has since expanded to three Taipei locations: the original Yitong Street shop next to Yitong Park, a counter inside the Xinyi Far Eastern A13 mall (basement level), and an outpost in the Eslite Xinyi bookstore complex on Songgao Road. An online store ships beans and drip bags internationally in multiple currencies.

Fika Fika's roasting philosophy is structured around Nordic light-forward profiles. The bean menu is divided into Bright Flavor (light roast), Sweet Flavor (medium), and Bold Flavor (medium-dark), with a dedicated espresso blend line and a Taiwan Premium Coffee tier sourcing domestic lots. Single-origin filter and Aeropress brewing anchor the café program. The retail side mirrors the roast spectrum in whole-bean bags and drip bags (掛耳式咖啡), plus a subscription program for regulars.