Been on Sha'anxi Nan Lu recently? You may have walked past a doorway that looked like this: 
Upstairs is a café called 'Encounter' with a forest theme inside, set over three floors of a lane house. A veritable woodland of plastic Taobao trees, moss, ferns, shrubs and flowers.
There's even a tiny stream! With real tiny fish in it!
The sylvan fun continues upstairs on the second floor, decked with a comparatively sombre 'hedgerow library' theme and some stools on which to sit and discuss forestly goings-on.
On the third floor, there's a god damn treehouse. It's pretty dark in there so we only managed to snap a few from the bottom, but inside is room for four people. Ideal for you inner city kids who never got a tree house in your backyard, only now you get to drink RMB23 Tsingdaos inside it and make out without your parents giving a shit.
Now for the downside. The coffee slightly sucks compared to other trendy cafes like Paras, Aunn and Sumerian. But then again, it's also cheaper than a lot of places. Like RMB28 for a cappucino cheap, so basically Starbucks prices. 
They also have fruit juice for around the same price, and pleasingly cheap beer from RMB23-28. Next happy hour spot?
Price: RMB23-50 per person
Who's going: not many people (yet)
Good for: coffee, juice, hang out spots, dessert, beer, cocktails
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