Cà Phê Trứng is a signature dish of Vietnam; we have verified places to eat it in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Egg coffee is a Hanoi drink of egg yolk whisked with sugar and condensed milk, set on hot coffee.
Cà Phê Trứng · Hanoi
Egg coffee is a Hanoi drink of egg yolk whisked with sugar and condensed milk, set on hot coffee. Cafe Giang, where it began in 1946, serves the cup in warm water.
Nguyen Van Giang, a bartender at the Metropole Hotel, used whisked egg yolk in place of scarce fresh milk and started selling the drink at his own Cafe Giang in 1946. His youngest son now runs the cafe. His daughter Bich opened Cafe Dinh at 13 Dinh Tien Hoang, up a flight of steps in an old house above an alley near Hoan Kiem Lake.
Where to eat in Hanoi:
- Café Giảng
- Cafe Đinh
- Cafe Phố Cổ
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Ca phe trung · Ho Chi Minh City
Egg coffee, a Hanoi invention: egg yolk whipped with sugar and condensed milk into a thick foam, served over strong phin coffee and eaten with a teaspoon before the coffee beneath is drunk.
Egg coffee comes from Hanoi, where Nguyen Giang, founder of Giang Cafe, is credited by his son with creating it in the late 1940s, when milk was scarce and egg yolk stood in for it. The yolks are whipped with sugar and condensed milk and gently heated in a water bath to avoid curdling, and the drink is made with robusta brewed through a phin. A teaspoon is provided so the foam can be eaten before the coffee at the bottom, and the cup may be set in warm water to stay hot. Runam Bistro serves it in Saigon.
Where to eat in Ho Chi Minh City:
- Runam Bistro
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