Strange fragrant egg coffee, expensive weasel coffee, and famous white coffee (Bac Xiu) are the 03 best types of Vietnamese coffee that locals and international tourists love.
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Egg coffee
Egg coffee is a unique creation of Vietnamese people, first appearing in 1950 in Hanoi. At that time, people used egg yolk to replace scarce fresh milk. Later, egg coffee became Hanoi’s specialty, served at most old cafes in the capital, starting with Giang Coffee.
To make delicious egg coffee, people use fresh eggs, sugar, milk, and coffee. Egg yolks are hand-beaten with milk and sugar.
After brewing coffee, boil it up, then pour it into the beaten egg-milk mixture. The result is floating coffee cups, beautiful brown color, fragrant with the smell of custard, moderately sweet and fatty, mixed with pure coffee taste, creating a lovely drink.
Egg coffee has a slightly yellow-brown color, presented in small cups. The waiter will bring a small spoon for customers to enjoy the rich handmade cream foam when ordering coffee. Egg coffee is placed in a bowl of warm water, so it is always naturally hot, which is the best drink on the days of Hanoi to winter.
Today, many cafes have created many other flavors to make egg coffee more attractive and less tedious for diners: cocoa, green beans, matcha powder, etc. Hot or iced depending on the customer’s request.
If you want to enjoy the best egg coffee, you can go to Giang Coffee at 39 Nguyen Huu Huan, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi. Here, the price of each cup of coffee is about 30,000 VND.
Where to enjoy the best Vietnamese Egg Coffee?
In addition to Giang Cafe, you can also enjoy this exceptional delicious egg coffee at some other addresses in Hanoi such as:
– Dinh Coffee – 13 Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hoan Kiem District. Price: 30,000 VND
– Old Quarter Coffee – 11 Hang Gai, Hoan Kiem district. Price: 40,000 VND
– Oriberry Cafe – No. 36 Au Trieu, Hoan Kiem district. Price: 25,000 VND
– My Way Café & Lounge – 24T2 Hoang Dao Thuy, Cau Giay district. Price: 40,000 VND
– The Hanoi Social Club – No. 6 Hoi Vu, Hoan Kiem District. Price: 50,000 VND
– Egg coffee in Hang Chi alley – No. 5 Hang Chi alley, Hoan Kiem district. Price: 20,000 VND
– The Note Coffee – No. 64 Luong Van Can, Hoan Kiem district. Price: 30,000 VND
– AN Café – No. 15 Phu Doan, Hoan Kiem district. Price: 20,000 VND
– Memory Coffee – No. 4/37, lane 82 Chua Lang, Dong Da district. Price: 33,000 VND
Weasel Coffee – The best Vietnamese Coffee
At the end of the 19th century, the French brought coffee beans to Vietnam and planted them in the Central Highlands. In those days, coffee was still rare. The best coffee beans were for the owner, and the farmers could only pick up coffee beans mixed in weasel dung to make their own drinks. Surprisingly, this coffee has a better taste than regular coffee. This incident opened up the history of weasel coffee in Vietnam.
Today, weasel coffee is one of the most expensive coffees in the world. If you have the opportunity to come to the Central Highlands, you will witness firsthand the journey of making weasel coffee.
Process of making weasel coffee
Coffee is grown on fertile basalt soil, receiving enough sun and wind. It will flower, forming dense clusters of fruit. Ripe fruits after harvesting will be brought to feed for weasel – an animal of the cat family, tiny in size and nocturnal. Weasel loves to eat sweet fruit, ripe coffee beans are one of them.
The weasels eat coffee, then excrete it into feces. People pick up each coffee bean in weasel manure, clean it, dry it in the sun, separate the husks, and then carefully hand-sieve it. Only qualified coffee beans are selected, roasted, and ground.
Coffee beans roasted with the correct technique, at the right temperature, and at the right time will have a gentle scent and beautiful color. Roasted beans are cooled and stored in a vacuum. 1 kg of traditional mink coffee costs about 3,000 USD, equivalent to 70 million VND.
Coffe shops to enjoy weasel coffee
Today, due to the increasing demand for coffee. People produce weasel coffee according to the farm style, providing a larger output, and the price is also gradually lower. Weasel coffee in Lam Dong costs from 800,000 to 15 million VND/kg. The quality and taste are no less than traditional mink coffee.
If you want to enjoy pure weasel coffee, you can go to some coffee shops in Da Lat, such as:
– Trai Ham weasel coffee – 135E Hoang Hoa Tham, Ward 10, Da Lat City. Price: 80,000 – 220,000 VND
– Weasel & Classic Car Coffee – 01 KDL Ho Tuyen Lam, Ward 3, Da Lat. Price: 50,000 – 200,000 VND
Bạc xỉu (White coffee)
From the 50s to the 60s of the last century, the poor people often mixed coffee and milk with hot water to form an attractive beverage. Water is heated with fresh milk, stir in condensed milk, add a little coffee, and then use a spoon to whip it up.
Bac Xiu has the sweet taste of milk. The faint aroma of coffee can be drunk hot or iced. Compared with the hard-to-drink bitter taste of traditional filter coffee, Bac Xiu is more friendly to children, teenagers, and even women.
Saigon people love to drink Bac Xiu while having breakfast. And today, people like to drink at any time, sometimes to start the day, sometimes during a gathering with friends every evening. People also think of ways to mix with coconut milk and many other flavors to serve customers.
Vietnamese coffee accounts for 40% of the world’s Robusta bean production. In the country, in each tourist area, there is a different type of coffee. The Central Highlands has weasel coffee, Hanoi has egg coffee, Saigon has Bac Xiu, if you both travel and enjoy specialty coffee, there’s nothing better than that.
Coffe shops to enjoy the best Vietnamese coffee: Bac Xiu
If you come to Saigon, you can go to the following addresses to enjoy Bạc Xỉu:
– Chieu Coffee – At the end of the dead-end alley at 124 Cao Thang, District 3. Price: 20,000 VND
– Cheo Leo – Alley 109 Nguyen Thien Thuat, District 3. Price: 30,000 – 55,000 VND
– Dabao Concept Coffee – Room 37, 3rd Floor, 145 Nguyen Trai, District 1. Price: 30,000 – 65,000 VND
– Cafe Nap Saigon – 5 Nguyen Van Thu Street, Da Kao, District 1. Price: 30,000 – 50,000 VND
– Cafe Runam D’or – No. 3 Paris Commune, Ben Nghe, District 1. Price: 30,000 – 65,000 VND
