Vietnam Coffee

Drinking coffee is a daily habit of Vietnamese. Vietnamese cafes are very common, not high-spending places, and ordinary ones are only a few yuan RMB. Vietnamese coffee is not brewed in a coffee pot, but a special dripping coffee cup, followed by an old-fashioned printed glass, drop by drop to pass the time. When making, put the dripping cup on the cup holder below, put coffee powder in the drip, press a piece of metal with holes, and then brew it with hot water to let the coffee drip into the cup. When making hot coffee, keep the cup warm in a large bowl filled with boiling water, because it may take ten minutes to finish a cup of coffee, and the hot coffee will cool off. Some people like to add a layer of very sweet condensed milk under the cup, wait for the coffee to drop into the cup, and then mix black coffee with white condensed milk to drink, which is extremely sweet. Ice is also fine.

The practice of this kind of coffee seems to be found only in Vietnam, and I am afraid that only gentle Vietnamese have such a good temper to wait patiently for a cup of coffee to finish, and then drink it slowly. Even if you pick up coffee on the street by the side of the road, it is the same production procedure and is not ambiguous.

There are so many cafes in Vietnam that people have the urge to open one right away. There are five or six cafes on a small street. The cafes in each city are very different and have their own temperament.

Hanoi's Huanjian Lake is a gathering area of backpackers, surrounded by a lot of beautiful CAFE, with a balcony overlooking the night of Huanjian Lake. The cafes that locals like to patronize usually have a small face. the room is a long, deep strip, with curtains at the door, tables and chairs are short, coffee is very cheap, and a cup of black coffee costs only 5000 guilders. The cafe specially prepared for foreign tourists is different. It is more westernized and the storefront is specially decorated. The price is more than double, but it is still very cheap compared with domestic cafes. Some cafes are opened in a century-old house, where everything is made of wood, with beautiful floors, stairs and tables. You can sit outside and enjoy the street view in the sun, with pink roses on the table. Although such a store knows full well that it costs twice as much, everyone competes to sit there and write postcards and diaries, and no one wants to leave.

The cafes in Saigon are completely different. The tables and chairs face the street, or the house is surrounded by windows extending in all directions. The space is open. The atmosphere in the cafe also seems free and erosive, the coffee is still the same, but the guests all have their own feelings.