Service with a dimpled smile and a flower

Chris McMillan
Jun 29, 2020
1 min read

Updated: Jun 30, 2020

Shine

15th May 2020

by Zhu Ying

“We want to communicate with normal people, but we fear rejection and we don’t want to trouble them.”

The speaker is 23-year-old Hua Yuxin, who suffers a hearing loss. A barista at a cafe called Lili Time, he goes by the nickname Xiaoyu. For hearing-impaired people, nicknames are more easily expressed in sign language.

Located on Mengzi Road E., the coffee shop employs seven deaf or hard-of-hearing people born mainly in the 1980s and 90s. It offers them an opportunity to step outside their small, silent world and connect with the wider society.

https://www.shine.cn/feature/lifestyle/2005158176/

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