Dry Dock Cafe barista Shine Kim shares her secret to being among the best coffee makers in New Zealand, after making it through the qualifying stages at the New Zealand Barista Championships.
Tauranga's Shine Kim made it through to the semifinals of the New Zealand Barista Championships in Wellington at the weekend.
The barista went up against the best coffee-makers in the country at the competition.
She made it through the qualifying stages and was one step away from competing in thefinal before she was eliminated.
It was her first time competing at the event and she was happy to make it so far.
She is now eyeing next year's event and hopes to make it through to the finals in 2017.
A self-confessed "coffeeholic", Ms Kim said she loved everything about it and would drink up to five cups of coffee herself a day alternating between espressos and flat whites.
Ms Kim said she loved competing, meeting other baristas and learning new tricks of the trade.
Dry Dock Cafe owner Sandra Johnson said everyone at the cafe was proud of what Ms Kim had achieved because they had seen the hard work she had put in.