It was once the oldest coffeehouse in Taipei. It was a place where writers of the fifties and sixties congregated to converse and polish up their work in progress.
It was the Heliconian realm of the poet Chou Meng-tieh.
It was also a place where many young people fell in love or out of it for the first time.
Situated at the corner of Chungking S. Rd. and Wuchang St. in Taipei and originally run by a White Russian, the Astoria Coffeehouse after accompanying us for more than forty years, has finally succumbed to Taipei's increasingly expensive tastes in dining and entertainment and been torn down and rebuilt for other purposes.
Its rich aroma of coffee and the era it represented have become historical memories. Sinorama specially invited Pai Hsien-yung, Yungtze, and Lomen, three writers who were closely connected with the Astoria at the time, to reminiscence about days gone by.
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