I've never really been a great coffee drinker myself so whenever I visit I always take the Green tea.

Starbucks serves fairly ordinary flavoured green teas (Tazo) but you get a choice of nice big mugs to let what flavour the teas has seep out.

Coffee Bean serves better green tea with an actual green tea taste so my preference is for Coffee Bean teas.

One thing never fails to amaze me is the look of wonder on the staffs face when I ask for a hot tea & not an iced tea, it's like as if this is a very rare occurrence in these establishments.

Has anyone else ever experienced the same in these places or is my penchant for drinking hot green tea in these places really so unusual?

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Added on November 2, 2011, 9:24 pmIf you were to try to extrapolate the popularity of both brands you could look at their Facebook pages & Coffee Bean Malaysia currently has 5,978 Likes compared to Starbucks Malaysia with 47,909 Likes.

Obviously this is not definitive proof of anything but it does throw up a rather large disparity in terms of social networking helping brand awareness.

This post has been edited by SpyMalaysia: Nov 2 2011, 09:24 PM

Hmmmm, yep, I suppose there are reasons for everything & you just gave a good account of very plausible possible reasons for Starbucks dominance.