The land of the period has many delicious dishes such as pho, bun thang, nuggets … but when it comes to drinks, people immediately think of Hanoi egg coffee. A unique drink with a fragrant flavor that makes everyone fall in love with the first taste.
Egg coffee – culinary culture in the heart of Hanoi
For a long time, egg coffee is no longer a strange name for visitors visiting Hanoi , everyone is curious to try egg coffee. Because only Hanoi has a delicious egg coffee that is not available.
A familiar drink of Hanoians
To make this special cup of coffee requires ingredients including coffee, fresh eggs, milk, sugar. The egg yolks whipped with milk and sugar into a creamy, creamy consistency with a light yellow color. Then people pour heated coffee water into the egg cream floats gently on the cup mouth looks extremely attractive. In each cup of coffee need to use 2 egg yolks and pure coffee powder with a strong aroma of Vietnamese coffee.
Despite this general recipe, each egg cafe in Hanoi also has its own secret, which may differ from coffee roasting or whisking, but each has a different flavor. But one common feature is that coffee does not have the greasy and fishy taste of eggs. As at Giang coffee shop, when bringing hot coffee cup, put it in a bowl of hot water to keep the coffee warm for a long time, the drinker slowly sips the flavor.
Cup of coffee with eggs, milk and sugar
But the hobby of drinking coffee eggs of the Hanoi people is also very strange, they are not picky and stylish in luxury cafes but just gather around some sidewalk stools or in a house in the middle of the area. old collective; They are ready to immerse themselves in the street, before coming to Dinh coffee, you can sit on the railing and look directly at the windswept Sword Lake, but now that seat is no longer …
People only need a low table and three stools to drink coffee
Then the drinker sips a little sweet melt in the whipped cream, then a little bold and bitter in the coffee layer, or stirring both flavors to balance it all. If the first drink is a little strange, a bit unfamiliar, but unexpectedly after a few sips, I will be ecstatic at the sweet taste mixed with the characteristic fragrant aroma of eggs. Many friends from far away to Hanoi keep enjoying egg coffee once, and there are also many people who still dream about egg coffee after leaving.
The strange drink that everyone has tried and is already in love with that taste
Although the best drink is in the winter, fresh chicken eggs are thick and warm, very suitable for drinking and pampering in the cold days of Hanoi; But actually, all year round, whenever you come to Hanoi, please try this drink!
Delicious egg cafes in Hanoi
Giang Coffee, Dinh Coffee or Old Quarter Coffee … are familiar names to those who love fragrant drinks, bearing the shape of ancient Hanoi.
– Coffee Giang: The people who love coffee in the capital, no one does not know Giang, one of the “four pillars of coffee” in Hanoi: Nhan, Nhi, Di, Giang. This is the first place to sell coffee eggs in the period, because its founder – Mr. Giang is the creator of this drink. Previously as a bartender for Metrophole Hotel, inspired by the specific capuchino coffee that made the famous drink of Hanoi people.
Giang Coffee is located at 39 Nguyen Huu Huan
If there is a characteristic that distinguishes egg coffee in Giang from other places, it is the richness of coffee and the aroma of the egg yolk, the special sweet cream taste. The recognition of a cup of coffee in Giang is reflected in the number of more than 3,000 cups served at the US-Trieu Summit held in Vietnam in early 2019.
Coffee cup at Giang is placed in a bowl of hot water
Address: 39 Nguyen Huu Huan, Hoan Kiem District & 106 Yen Phu, Ba Dinh District.
– Dinh Coffee: Located in a special location of Hanoi Old Quarter (13 Dinh Tien Hoang), upstairs 2 of an old French mansion tinged with time, but Dinh coffee shop is famous no less. Teaching. Coffee in the old small stall has an unforgettable taste, when given, there is no hot water bowl but only a small cup with a pretty palm. Sitting in this space, visitors are completely relaxed, listening to an old Trinh music passionately watching the streets, watching lilies, chrysanthemums that the shop arranges according to season.
Dinh Coffee Shop has a view of Hoan Kiem Lake
One special thing is that the owner of Dinh coffee shop, Ms. Bich, is the biological daughter of Mrs. Giang, so the flavor of egg coffee here still retains the features created by Mrs. Giang. Each cup is only about 17 – 20,000 VND for you to unleash for nostalgia, to release your soul into Hanoi peacefully.
Previously, Dinh Tien Hoang cafe had a table next to the 2nd floor railing
– Coffee shop in the old town 11 Hang Gai: The coffee shop appeared last but also very popular with tourists because of its rare nostalgic and quiet space. Foreign tourists are often introduced here, holding a cup of delicious egg coffee, leaving a deep impression on the customers at the first drink. Drinks in the old town coffee range from 30,000-60,000 VND depending on type.
Old town cafes pour egg coffee into a glass cup instead of a porcelain cup
Egg coffee is a drink favored by many Hanoi people and domestic and international tourists, and firmly believe that in 5 years, 10 years, 50 years … this unique drink is still equal The most natural way to win the hearts of diners, just hearing the name is to remember Hanoi.