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Why are coffee shops so famous in Vietnam?

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The French Colonists brought coffee trees and coffee drinking culture to Vietnam during XIX century.

Now in Vietnam we ground a big area of coffee trees (almost Robusta and Arabica), and export our coffee products.

Vietnamese like drinking coffee and drink it at anytime, not only mornings. Many coffee shops don’t often use coffee machine but a filter when customers sit and wait for each drop of coffee. Friends invite each other to coffee shop to talk. Couples go to enjoy coffee together. Businesses partners sometimes negotiate in coffee shop…

Now many people choose takeaway coffee service but coffee shops are still very popular everywhere in Vietnam.

This is a coffee shop and you can recognize the Canadian Prime Minister was sitting there may be waiting for coffee and before coffee they were served light tea for free :)

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I’m a big coffee shops fan. I enjoy both meeting up with friends, working or relaxing in a cafe alone. I go both in the mornings for coffee, and later in the day to get non-caffein drinks. So few big reasons why I love coffee shops in Saigon sooo much:

They often have good space between tables and quiet enough, ideal to meet up with friends and catch up, or even a new date. Again these make good working/reading space for me, as I can concentrate but also being surrounded by people helps me more productive instead of being sloppy or wandering on the Internet like I’d more likely do if I were at home.

Morning coffee and some quiet time to do things I enjoy (writing or reading) has become my favorite part of my morning routine, to refresh and wake up and also accomplish one of the few things I want to keep as a habit, before starting work.

I also enjoy people-watching in coffee shops. I especially like doing it when travelling to a new city. It’s a safe enough place to watch and enjoy seeing differences in people without feeling like a creep. :D

Most coffee shops have nice view, a slow morning/evening sight-seeing is also ideal. And most coffee shops offer variety of drinks to enjoy in the evening, not only coffee!

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I thinks that these coffee shops so popular, instead of “so famous”.

1/ Vietnamese Coffee Culture: You can see lots of coffee shops, everywhere, almost Vietnamese people come here to experience unique, enjoy music, has a little bitter taste & has tinges of achohol taste in it.

2/ Run a coffe shops that a way to living in Vietnam. It could give them monthly income that adequate cover their life.

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Vietnam is the largest producer of coffee in Asia and is top 3 or top 5 globally. Traditionally a Robusta crop until the 2000 but now with a rapidly increasing arabica crop.

I went to Vietnam back in 92 and it was coffee on the street sitting on a wooden box with an aluminium dripolator with hand towel or toilet paper in the bottom as a filter and into a chipped cup or enamel mug. It was fantastic stuff.

Now the tourism industry and especially expatriate Vietnamese from Australia, Hong Kong and California have kicked the cafe culture into the stratosphere.

This has been combined with best Wifi in SE Asia, rapidly rising GDP and an engaged youth and middle class who have found cafes as a substitute for open space in cities with poor open space and crowded houses.

Welcome to the next Asian Tiger Economy.

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A2A: I don’t know if there are “so famous” coffee shops in Vietnam given that the F&D industry is confronting its non-lucrative period at the presence and continuing down the road by the omnipresence and invasion of foreign franchises.

Generally we Vietnamese love coffee. Similar to Japanese who spent their leisured time for tea, we fill our free moments with coffee. Vietnamese coffee is unique and special, easy to prepare and not too expensive to owe an amazing cup. Unlike Western coffee such as Cappuccino or Latte which requires certain condition to prepare, and thus becomes quite expensive with Vietnamese low income population. Vietnamese coffee is easier to prepare with what calls “phin” - our special tool to produce coffee.

It’s not only a drink, it’s also about the space that people can gather and gossip together. Students love studying/employees like working at the coffee shops where wifi is given free and air condition is available the entire day. The recent trend of learning English and organizing workshop is also happened at the coffee shops. Bang! Services comes as being demanded!

There are certain famous brands:

If you’re young, proactive and modern-designed loving person, you might want to check out the brand “THE COFFEE HOUSE”. This brand is my favorite. I love the space and the hospitality here. I think their marketing strategy is really smart, their customer understanding is excellent and their stories are quite inspiring. I love Arabica and thus, enjoy the unique sour taste passing though my tongue and slowly disappear at its end. THE COFFEE HOUSE formulation satisfies me at this point as well.

If you love Robusta, you might prefer HIGHLAND COFFEE over THE COFFEE HOUSE. Particularly, I feel the quality of coffee at HIGHLAND COFFEE is less genuine nowadays. I didn’t have hand-shaking behavior or severe headache after drinking their coffee few years back, but it’s happening many times recently until I start to fear the bitter taste of them and change my favorite brands.

Another brand name you might want to try is TRUNG NGUYEN - the genuine Vietnamese coffee. I particularly like the taste here. The founder of TRUNG NGUYEN was a medical student before he figured out his passion with Vietnamese coffee and worked hard to globalize it. The story of their milestones is interesting. If you’re seeking special presents to give your beloved people while leaving Vietnam, I strongly recommend this brand.

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Coffee shops are a big part of Vietnamese culture it’s where people go to enjoy each others company, discuss stuff & generally have a good time.

The Vietnamese like their coffee black, strong & often iced. You will also find that condensed milk is used if you want a “white” Vietnamese coffee. Historically with no refrigeration the only “milk” that won’t go off in the tropical heat is the condensed stuff.

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It’s hardly surprising that coffee has caught on so well. Formerly a colony of France, a country renowned for it’s café lifestyle, it was the French who first introduced coffee to Vietnam in the mid-19th century.

Yet in the years since, the Vietnamese have turned it into a drink of their own, with somewhat unusual but delicious ways of drinking the black stuff becoming mainstream.

If you are a coffee lover make sure you try their “Egg Coffee”

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