[HANOI] Stunning COFFEE EGG - in hidden Hanoi

COFFEE EGG

- Ca phe Trung - 

Coffee egg, a significant drink only be served in Vietnam, especially in Hanoi – an ancient town beside Red River.

This coffee egg was first invented in 1946 by Nguyen Van Giang. He used to be a chef in Metropole Hotel Hanoi and used to make lots of expensive cappuccino cups with imported coffee, cream cheese and milk scum. Meanwhile, Vietnam has wonderful fresh egg, he started to think if it possible to make a drink with these eggs and coffee.

With his curious, in 1946, he made a kind of coffee with fresh egg foam successfully and start to serve it at his café on 39 Nguyen Huu Huan street.

Ingredients to make coffee are fresh eggs, sugar, milk, coffee and many other things that are family secret. Chicken egg whites are hand-wiped with milk, sugar, and then boiled coffee. The cup of coffee immediately floats in a fragrant aromatic brown color. The cup of coffee will be put in another cup of hot water, aiming to keep the drink warm. First of all, take a little cream of sweet cream on top of the coffee cup first, then slowly enjoy the lower part of the coffee, the sweetness, fatness, bitterness and bitterness in a sense of fun.

Today, when the eggs have been beaten smooth, cotton, smooth with a very "genuine", the shop has more egg ice coffee, cocoa eggs, green bean eggs, matcha (Japanese green tea) eggs ... all serve both hot or stone, depending on each person’s taste.

People can drink black coffee, milk coffee anywhere, but for coffee, they remember the house at 39 Nguyen Huu Huan. The house has narrow alley entrance, however inside is a spacious and airy space, decorated with many trees and old objects. The old paintings, watches, ceiling fans are nearly 80 years old ... Nguyen Chi Hoa said, all these belongings his family kept integrity from his father's lifetime.

"Many cafes have replaced with modern lounge chairs, we still keep rustic wooden chairs, simple, so that visitors can remember what the Hanoi's far away," said Mr. Hoa.