![]() ![]() There's little money involved, but the quirky business does put Daughter's Café on the map. The rationale: the café only sells coffee and related nosh, and all the random junk must be bartered for via other objects or even stories, songs or favors. When a customer finds a Thai-Chinese cookbook among the café's mess, Josie makes a deal for the customer to clean their storm drains in exchange for the cookbook. Working with Doris is her sister Josie (Zai-zai Lin), a supposed business major who for some reason has settled with working in her sister's café. What's a willowy, determined young businesswoman to do? Doris always wanted an elegant café, but unfortunately hers is cluttered at her grand opening, her friends decided to give her lots of useless junk as gifts, leading to a nice-looking café filled with a menagerie of ill-fitting and even tacky belongings. Funded in part by the Taipei tourism bureau, Taipei Exchanges stars Guey Lun-Mei as Doris, the proprietor of newly opened Daughter's Café, your standard latte, cheesecake and tiramisu-serving coffee joint located in a suburban Taipei district. It's thin and underdeveloped, but writer-director Hsiao Ya-Chuan’s Taipei Exchanges possesses quirky charm, a relaxing tone and a fine pairing of actresses. Guey Lun-Mei does her usual Guey Lun-Mei thing, but Zai-Zai Lin steals the film as her sassy but smart sister. ![]() Insubstantial but charming, this light drama about a couple of sisters who run a Taipei cafe pleases during its brief (82 minutes) running time. Guey Lun-Mei and Zai-Zai Lin brew coffee and barter junk in Taipei Exchanges. ![]()
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