Unique Coffee Cups of 3 Regions

EGG COFFEE – UNIQUE DRINK OF HA CITY PEOPLE

Mentioning Hanoi coffee, you will immediately be drawn to Giang coffee shop and introduced to egg coffee – a unique drink of Hanoi people.

The creation of egg coffee originated from the lack of… milk. Legend has it that Mr. Nguyen Van Giang, once a famous chef at the Metropole Hotel, created this special coffee. In 1940, when everything was scarce, he wanted to create a sweet drink with milk and cream like Cappuccino. However, making a cup of cappuccino at that time was quite expensive with coffee, cream, and skim. milk…how can Vietnamese people drink it every day? And he wondered if it was possible to make an attractive drink, not as rich as filter coffee but light and sweet? Is it possible to create Vietnamese Cappuccino with other ingredients, more suitable for Vietnamese people?

And after many of his experiments, egg coffee was born.

Photo: Egg coffee at Giang

The ingredients to make egg coffee are quite simple, including fresh eggs, sugar, milk, and coffee. Egg yolks are beaten by machine with milk and sugar and then poured into a cup of black coffee. Egg coffee is usually kept warm with a cup of hot water and is not a dish that can be sipped because if left for a long time it will easily become fishy. When the hot cup of egg coffee is served, hold a spoon and stir gently so that the egg cream blends with the coffee layer. Remember, the way to drink is to use your ingenuity to drink so that these two drinks mix together. The soft, sweet cottoniness seems to have nothing to do with the bitter black taste of coffee, but when you drink it, it definitely feels like a perfect, seductive blend. That’s why egg coffee is one of the drinks in the TOP 17 most worth-trying coffees in the world, and is the opening cup of coffee for discovering the Vietnamese cultural journey.

BOLD, SLOW DRINK CUP OF COFFEE IN THE CENTRAL REGION

In the Central region or especially the dreamy city of Hue, there is no inherent coffee dish created. Or maybe if we want to talk about Central coffee, we want to talk about the strong coffee taste and the delicate, slow way of enjoying it, typical of Central people who live a deep, meaningful life.

Da Nang is famous for Long coffee

Coffee cups are usually very small and much stronger than Southern and Northern coffee cups. Usually, the shop owner serves coffee with a direct filter and then lets customers sit and wait for each drop of coffee to fall into the cup, slowly and gently. One filter only distills out about 1/5 of a small cup. After waiting for the filter to drain into the cup, the drinker can mix sugar and put an ice cube big enough to cool it without diluting the coffee too much, then sit and sip some coffee at simple cafes. An interesting thing is that coffee shops in the Central region are often located near quiet, peaceful areas with very gentle decorations. When entering the shop, Central people often speak softly, never speak loudly, sometimes sit quietly watching time pass with a cup of dripping coffee. Coffee shops like meditation shops help people calm down, meditate, and remind us of joys and sorrows, and memories with a rich cup of coffee, like an elegant daily pleasure.

SILVER BLEACHING XII PHE – SWEET LIKE SAIGON PEOPLE

In Hanoi, there is egg coffee, but in Saigon, you must try a cup of Bac Xiu with lots of ice and milk. Bac Xiu comes from the phrase “Bac Xa Si Phe” (Bac is white, Chao is a cup, Xiu is a little, Phe is coffee), meaning coffee mixed with a little milk. Bac Xiu is also a creative drink of working people, and strangely enough, it also originates from… the lack of fresh milk in the past. Because fresh milk is a luxury item, Ong Tho or Con Chim condensed milk is substituted. However, hot condensed milk has a slightly unpleasant taste, so people came up with the idea of adding a little coffee flavor to cover up the unpleasant smell. So the silver dish was born.

Saigon Racket Coffee

The silver cup is also very typical of the coffee drinking style here. Unlike Hue and Hanoi people, Saigon people’s way of drinking coffee is extremely generous and they consider a cup of coffee not just a sip but also a beverage. Because it is a beverage, a cup of coffee is often very sweet, almost overwhelming the bitter taste of coffee, and is served with a lot of ice. A cup of coffee is usually very diluted and served in a tall cup. In Hanoi and Hue, people are often served with filters and cups, while in Saigon, coffee is mainly pre-brewed and coffee is drunk with…straws, so if a Hanoian or Hue person comes to Saigon, there will probably be a shock. Light culture about this Saigon coffee drinking culture. And Saigon people are not used to drinking Hanoi or Hue style coffee because the cup of coffee is too strong and the drinking style is too slow.

Coffee cups are considered an unofficial cultural heritage of the Vietnamese people. A cup of dark black filter coffee with each drop of filter slowly falling to the bottom of the cup has always been an image that has stuck with Vietnamese people from past to present, however there are different stories that create Vietnamese coffee in each region. The region has its own color, extremely diverse and unique. And the relaxed and relaxed way of enjoying Vietnamese coffee is always an indispensable image in the daily life of Vietnamese people.

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Source: kentheroad