Maarten Boer, one of Guangzhou's creative cafeteria owners, is from the Netherlands and has been living in China for a decade.

Professionally, he mainly focuses on brand design, running a creative magazine, and working as a part-time design teacher at Guangdong Experiment Middle School. Now, his restaurant has become a popular gathering place for Europeans in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area due to its appeal of "feeling like home."