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Deceptively innocent coffee. Image (c) Stacy Libokmeto
Back in Saigon from Dalat, we’re hanging out at Highlands Coffee, a major coffee shop chain in Vietnam. I’m sitting in front of the large windows on the second floor overlooking the backpacker district at Pham Ngu Lao. We come here for a break from the crowds, wifi, and coffee, of course. Vietnamese coffee or Cà phê sữa đá, is so powerful, it could wake up the dead. I prefer to get it iced, but even the melted ice cubes do little to tone down its strength.
Still, I forget how strong Vietnamese style coffee is, until I take my first sip of the day. The mix of concentrated coffee and sweetened condensed milk hit me hard. Every time. One drop meets my tongue and my brain goes into system overload. Caffeine! Caffeine! Caffeine! Caffeine! my cells scream. Caffeine sprinting through the blood…
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The coffee is definitely one of my favorite things there… Although I prefer mine hot (cà phê sữa nóng) 🙂
Have you tried the weasle poop coffee yet? You can get it at Trung Nguyen… but it is a bit spendy.
No I have not had the honor of treating my tastebuds to the weasel poop coffee yet. I should really try it before we leave Vietnam, working up the courage!