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We fell in love with egg coffee on our second day in Hanoi Vietnam. Watch our video to find out why egg coffee Hanoi style is our new guilty pleasure.
We never even heard of egg coffee before our trip to Hanoi, and we would have walked right by Café Giang if not for the advice of our two Hanoi ‘fixers’ – Philly friend / Instagram maven Marie Buendia Woytowich of gooddayphoto and the intrepid Mai Nguyen from Hanoi food blog Tho Loves Food.
They both told us to try egg coffee, also known as orcà phê trứng, at the popular hidden Hanoi café near our Old Quarter hotel. Thanks to their sage advice, our lives (or at least our taste buds) are forever changed.
To the uninitiated, egg coffee, Hanoi style, sounds kind of weird. That’s what we thought before we tried the popular Vietnamese food that comes in a cup, but we fell in love with Giang Café’s version after just one sip.
Created by his father Nguyen Giang in the 1940’s when fresh milk was scarce, Tri Hoa Nguyen makes egg coffee the original way by brewing cups of strong coffee and then adding a sweet topping of whisked chicken egg yolk, Vietnamese coffee powder, sweetened condensed milk, butter and cheese.
The result is a decadently rich concoction that’s both a coffee drink and a dessert. This is one of the Vietnamese food favorites that you don’t want to miss!
We’re not alone in our egg coffee love. Backpackers Wanderlust agrees that egg coffee in Hanoi is the bomb.
Egg Coffee Hanoi Video
Watch our video to get the skinny on egg coffee. Be aware that the video won’t actually make you skinny, but it will make you want to hop on a plane to Hanoi for a jolt of liquid pleasure.
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Café Giang is located at 39 Nguyễn Hữu Huân, Lý Thái Tổ, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Comments
That looks amazing! Do you have an exact recipe to replicate it with?
I remember loving the coffee when I was there. I even bought one of those little coffee presses.
There are some recipes online. We’re not sure that knowing how to make egg coffee at home would be a good thing for us. Probably a good drink for the holidays!
I feel guilty if I don’t take a sip of egg coffee this week after reading this post.
P.S: glad that you like it 😉 *slurp*
I checked for online recipes and found that in Scandinavia they have egg coffee too. It appears to be different though. The Vietnamese looks much better. Thanks for the educational food tours. I have been learning a lot.
There are Vietnamese recipes out there too, but even with the videos we watched, those recipes didn’t look quite correct. I would just separate some eggs yolks, pour over some sweetened condensed milk, add a little vanilla and blend it with a hand mixer. After that pour some coffee over the mix in a cup. (I think La Coloumbe Corsica would do the trick – it’s bitter and burnt tasting. Not my preference for coffee beans normally but the kind of flavor that works in Vietnam.) Serve the Coffee in a cup over a bowl of hot water (to keep the egg mixture viscous.)
Daryl and Mindi, You guys look like you are having so much fun! I didn’t try egg coffee when I was in Hanoi, and now I’m going to have to go back. It looks too decadent for words!
Hey Corrine! Great hearing from you! Hanoi has so many fun places that are hidden in alleyways, waiting to be discovered.
We went there on our Hanoi food tour!
Well that certainly sounds odd but I would try it 🙂