About the dish
Vietnam is one of the world’s biggest coffee producers, and most of its crop is intense, slightly bitter robusta from the Central Highlands. Coffee is brewed in a phin, a small metal filter set on top of the glass through which it drips slowly for several minutes. Sweet condensed milk goes into the glass first – fresh milk was long hard to come by – and once stirred, the coffee is poured over ice. Cà phê sữa đá is sipped slowly in cafés and at street-side tables on low plastic stools, while the version without milk is cà phê đá. Hanoi is also known for egg coffee, cà phê trứng, topped with whipped yolk.
Main ingredients
- robusta coffee
- sweetened condensed milk
- water
- ice
More: Wikipedia (en)
