„He Cha – drinking tea“ is a Chinese euphemism for a summons to the police station. The Suzhou City Public Security Bureau has obviously taken the phrase to heart. This month, it opened its own milk tea café in a police station. The Jǐngchá 警茶, a pun on the characters for police and tea, focuses primarily on its external impact and is not yet open to the public. Nevertheless, the concept seems to be working: The merchandise surrounding the store, from cups to bags, can be found everywhere in China’s social media sphere. Incidentally, the milk tea cops from Suzhou are not the only civil servants pandering to the country’s café-crazy middle class. In 2022, the state postal service opened several cafés in Fujian province.