創意拿鐵 小黃人拉花咖啡萌翻舊金山

Some artists work in charcoal, others watercolor and some use ... foam?

有的藝術家用炭筆、有的用水彩，還有些用……泡沫？

Melannie Aquino works at the Elite Audio Coffee Bar in downtown San Francisco. Like many baristas, she began experimenting with latte art to mix up the grind of pulling shots all day long。

美蘭納·阿坤諾在聖弗朗西斯科商業區的精英音頻咖吧工作。和大部分咖啡師一樣，她開始研究拿鐵藝術，整天研究拿鐵拉花藝術、混合研磨咖啡粉、沏上一杯杯咖啡。

"It was pretty primitive, but the customer loved it so much that their reaction stuck with me. After that I was hooked," Aquino wrote in a post on Medium this week。“

“很簡單、很老式，但顧客們非常喜歡，我忘不了他們的反饋。自此以後我就迷上了，”本週阿坤諾在Medium平臺發的帖中這麼寫道。

Espresso-outlined bears turned into animals before Aquino set her sights on the bespectacled creatures known as Minions that are sweeping the nation. The yellow "box office superstars" have been featured in three films -- most recently the eponymously named "Minions" -- and have been taking social media by storm。

阿坤諾之前用濃咖啡作出小熊的輪廓，後來才把目光轉向那戴副眼鏡、風靡全國的小黃人。票房明星小黃人在三部電影中擔當主演，最近同名電影《小黃人》風靡各大社交媒體。

"They’re such expressive characters and it’s fun to bring them to life with each drink," Aquino wrote. "People kept coming back for them!"

“小黃人是表現力超強的角色，讓每杯飲品喚起他們的活力，着實有意思”，阿坤諾寫道，“回頭客都衝着小黃人來”。