HO CHI MINH CITY – Coming to the coffee shop that used to be the place of operation of Saigon Villa, diners can try coffee dipping cakes and kimchi is broken rice.
Coffee dumplings, a familiar breakfast dish of many Saigonese decades ago, now appear in Do Phu, the coffee shop located at the end of Dang Dung street (District 1).
The cake is used in special dishes, similar to the type of cake that the Chinese used to use with white porridge. And the black coffee, when brewed, will sweep the French butter layer into the filter. As the water drips down the glass, bring the rich aroma of butter into the pure coffee. This is also the way of the old Saigon people, in addition to add condensed milk.
Mr. Tran Vu Binh, the owner of the restaurant, shared that every time he sipped coffee with a rustic cake, the words “Who dumpling here” would appear in him. Dumplings are associated with the busy livelihoods of workers and Saigon intellectuals who used to like to eat coffee. “I cherish. Keep this memory. Every time a visitor comes to the restaurant, I suggest them to try and introduce the history of the dish,” he said.
Suggested dish for lunch is “Korean” broken rice, which includes young ribs, eggs, and pork rolls as usual but with added kimchi. The owner instructs, diners use chopsticks to force kimchi juice to flow out, then pour it on broken rice, eat with water spinach, not mix together. This is said to be the eating style of the soldiers staying at the Korean engineering residence, formerly opposite the shop door. The name of the dish is also derived from here.
Banh quon coffee costs 40,000 VND, kimchi rice is 45,000 VND, and other drinks have an average price of 35,000 VND. If diners order additional dishes such as ribs, skin, kimchi, add 5,000-35,000 VND. The shop is open from 7am to 10pm every day.
The coffee shop is located in the old house, built by the couple of Mr. Do Free from the 40s of the last century. At that time, outside his husband and wife, he sold broken rice to Korean (Korean) soldiers who went to the war, during the Vietnam War. In essence, the inside is the secret operation base of the Saigon special forces, under the management of Mr. Tran Van Lai, to shelter, communicate, meet and receive documents and letters between leaders and leaders. cadres lying in the area during the war.
Later, the couple of Mr. Do Wai handed over management to Mr. Tran Vu Binh, the son of Mr. Tran Van Lai. The current name Do Phu is taken from the surname of Mr. Do Wai and “phu” means house, which means the house of the owner of the surname Do. In addition to keeping and doing business, Mr. Binh silently searched and collected more memorabilia of the old Saigon cave.
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