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Vietnamese Coffee

Vietnamese Coffee

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Vietnamese coffee is sometimes referred to as “espresso”, but it isn’t, it is just strong coffee.

It is very strong, thick and sweet.

In Vietnam, ground coffee usually contains some roasted chicory root as well. Though originally just done to stretch out expensive coffee, it also adds richness and strength to the coffee. A French tradition, this is also done in some places in New Orleans. A popular brand of coffee in Vietnam is ‘Trung Nguyen’.

It is almost always served whitened with milk, around 4 parts coffee to 1 part milk. The milk used is sweetened condensed milk, because it has a longer storage life without refrigeration. A popular Vietnamese brand of condensed milk, ‘Longevity’, is very sweet.

Vietnamese coffee be served iced, or hot.

Vietnamese Coffee

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To make it, you set a Vietnamese metal coffee filter over a glass that contains condensed milk. You put around 2 to 4 tablespoons of ground coffee in the filter basket, and assemble the rest of the filter. You add the hot water and let the brewed coffee drip down through. Then remove the filter, and stir thoroughly the contents of the glass thoroughly.

Served hot, the coffee is called “cà phê sữa nóng.” For an iced version, called “cà phê sữa đá,” you pour the brewed coffee into a tall glass half-filled with ice.

Language Notes

The Vietnamese word for coffee is “cà phê”, a transliteration of the French word for coffee, “café.”

Vietnamese Coffee

松岡明芳 / wikimedia / 2011 / CC BY-SA 3.0

Other names

German: Vietnamesischer Kaffee

This page first published: Aug 14, 2005 · Updated: Oct 4, 2020.

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