A coffee lover, he needed only to catch a whiff of brewing coffee to find his spirits lifting. So as to bring back to his homeland the coffee house culture that he experienced in Tokyo, he opened Peacock Coffee on Kuangfu Road in Taichung in 1965.
愛喝咖啡的他，只要一聞到咖啡香就精神大振，為了將年輕時在東京咖啡館所感受的人文氣息帶回家鄉，1965 年在台中市光復路上開設了「孔雀咖啡」。