Dabang Coffee is a cafe at 159 Trafalgar Street in Nelson South, holding a 4.8 Google rating, with updates and photos shared through its Instagram page. The name is the Korean word for a traditional coffee house, and the measure of any cafe is much the same everywhere: espresso pulled to taste, milk textured silky for a proper flat white, and beans roasted recently enough to matter. In New Zealand the flat white is the unofficial yardstick, and regulars forgive a cafe many things but rarely a sloppy one. Morning tells the truth about a place — a queue of locals collecting their usual order says more than anything in the window. Mid-morning and mid-afternoon are the calmer hours for a slower sit and a proper look at the cabinet. Trafalgar Street is Nelson's main strip, and this looks like the sort of neighbourhood cafe worth making a habit of.