Egg coffee ( Vietnamese Cappuccino)

Hanoi egg coffee, ( Vietnamese Cappuccino)  once a drink to remember the past

Remember the first time I tried Egg Coffee in Hanoi three years ago, that year also in Giang Van, Nguyen Huu Huan street.  I just remember the café restaurant is located in a small niche (called niche because it is very small), on the second floor, then only some tables with low chairs only. I remember the cup of coffee that year is very fragrant, but slightly sweet, coffee is sweet but eggs are always sweet, but I remember the aroma of eggs and coffee.

Egg coffees are brewed quite simply. The bartender must choose fresh raw eggs to not smell fishy. Coffee must also be the purest type of Vietnam, with a passionate aroma. Eggs are collected by yolks, hand-wiped or hand-woven until it smells like a cake and then poured hot coffee in the middle of the cup. Egg emerges on top of the cup.

I think the way to make egg white is not too complicated, but it requires subtlety and skill. Perhaps in Hanoi, the number of consistent cafe egg processing only count on the finger. Formula is nothing special or secret knows how to hide but few places can make this drink successfully. The secret is in reducing the rate of eggs, coffee and milk so that the mouth is just right, harmony is not too sweet, not bitter, dank in the smell of passion.

You should drink when it is hot to feel good taste

The smell of coffee mixed with the aroma of coffee to create the flavor of coffee. You should drink as soon as the cup of hot coffee, if not will be fishy and hard to drink. Later on, some of the cafés sprinkle a small amount of cocoa powder on top of the cup of coffee, both beautifully and to add to the taste that is already attractive.

Last week I was with Franciso (Erasmus student from Italy) came to Hanoi to introduce some delicious food in Hanoi for him, I also found out to teach him coffee egg, this time we were Coming to Café Giang 1946 at No. 106 Yen Phu Street.

I do not know very well about this cafe and Giang cafe which I used to drink there, there are some differences in taste, however.

My first impression of this cafe is also small and pretty with low tables and chairs, but the coffee area is a lot of things, looks more than the old cafe I used to visit.

I like egg coffee in Giang Café here more than the previous one simply because this egg is not sweet anymore, only the vanilla smell (lack of rum smell like lecture on the old days I drink).

My friend - Franceso liked the old-fashioned egg whites I used to drink, because it has taste like tiramisu. Which I like most is the texture of the egg after the beat, do not understand how they hit the egg or too, very creamy, but not fishy. There is a point except that I do not like cocoa, cocoa is light and not good, but eggs are too good to be salvaged.

Coffee and eggs blend harmoniously, not too sweet, not too bitter, and even in the smell of passion. If you have the opportunity to Hanoi, tasted egg coffee once to remember forever ...

Egg coffee - the creative drink of the Hanoians, has become famous around the world by foreign guests after enjoying their laughter. Someone said, drinking hot coffee egg, in a simple glass cup, simple even once, remember forever when referring to Hanoi.

But like any traditional food, when I drink, I have to slowly stir the bubbly foam, put each spoon on the mouth to beat the egg melts, spreading flavor rich. Coffee cup is usually a small cup, placed in the palm of the hand, just enough for people to enjoy, but still delicious taste and remember.

The sweet, fat beef of chicken eggs and milk blends with the bitter and passionate of coffee

The aromatic coffee cup is made up of coffee, eggs and milk but has a strange charm to anyone who has ever had a chance to enjoy. Coffee egg is especially suitable for people who can not tolerate the bitterness of coffee, but still want to enjoy, sip a bit. The sweet, fatty leeks of chicken eggs and milk will dissipate the "hardest" part of coffee, leaving only fragrant, chewy, attractive.

The first egg coffee in Hanoi appeared in the early twentieth century, the creator of this unique egg coffee is Nguyen Van Giang.

Mr. Having been a chef at the French 5-star Sofitel Legend Metropole, transformed the familiar Capuccino in the West into egg-like coffee with more intimate ingredients.

The story of Egg Coffee - Vietnamese Cappuccino

Cafe Giang in Nguyen Huu Huan street and Yen Phu Street - the restaurants belonging to the family of Nguyen Van Giang - the birthplace of the egg coffee in the capital.

Anyway, I still recommend you to Hanoi, try Egg Coffee, which leads the top 17 most worthy coffee in the world,

Why is the egg cafe of Hanoi so attractive?

Mr Giang - Chef of French Sofitel Legend Metropole - the inventor of Egg Coffee.

I will tell the story as follows, as a leading chef of French 5-star Sofitel Legend Metropole, Mr. Giang brewed a excellent cappuccino. However, he said, milk whey cappuccino is distilled from pure fresh milk so expensive, in the 1940s, the Vietnamese did not have enough money to drink. So he has a lot of concern.

“He wanted to make a drink better than Italian cappuccino but it had to be 15 times cheaper for Vietnamese to enjoy.”

After several nights of contemplation, how many trials, in the end, Mr. Giang also succeeded with the idea of combining coffee and eggs. He tried many times and succeeded. And that is when he called it “ the cappuccino of the Vietnamese” , both delicious and nutrient-rich. "Hunger years, the cup of cheap egg cakes are soft and warm, so when invited invite friends The body tasted ... everyone obeys praise, that is really the invention of cuisine.

Perhaps, stop here, you might think that everything will be perfect, however the reality is so different.

But even so, at the moment of his birth, egg cafes are not immediately famous loudly today. It has had a past ups and downs in the course of history with a sudden death .

As I know, Cafe is brought to Vietnam by the French but at the time, just rich people can have money to drink coffee, as the result, and there were no customers for Egg Coffee while the colonizers seem to stick with Cappuccino.

Moreover, I can image at the time, the technology was still very low, so it is very hard to get people know about Egg Coffee. Today, we are living in fast- social network with many social networks, newspapers as well as the internet. It is very easy for you and me to learn about new things.

Born when science and technology has not yet developed, the egg made of coffee was originally mashed by hand. Although still delicious but maturity, the ability to remove the smell of fishy, certainly can not compare with the current typography. Therefore, the old egg cafe is not quite, has conquered the upper class.

During the communist period all the markets and shops, restaurants, trades were in trouble, and domestic goods were scarce, so it was not easy to make an egg-cup.

 "Mr. Giang was banned business, have to sell stealing every cup of coffee to make a living selling goods are difficult, someone called black coffee was happy and said to sell eggs," said Hoa.

The fewer guests call, the shopkeeper did not dare to do egg cafe. Because hitting an egg is not worthwhile, but if you hit a lot at the same time, no one buys it out, causing a capital loss. But the grandchildren Giang, everyone is devoted to the food that their father had created wonders. For many years, struggling with individual cups of coffee, flavors and recipes are still preserved after all.

It is not until Vietnam reforms, ie opening the market economy, new egg cafes are preferred by more customers, especially teenagers like me.

I also think that because of the economy going up, coffee is no longer as expensive as before, so I can enjoy coffee which used to be a kind of  luxurious drink in the past 20 years in Vietnam.

 Apart from that, I would like to say thanks to the machine which came to life has increased the maximum satisfaction of customers. Along with that the development of the press ... all made the egg cafe cup, from a popular dish, gradually upgraded to faster and faster process of making Egg Coffee.

Cafe Giang does not turn on any kind of music.

Here I feel 100% quiet, or at least I only hear the sound of laughter.

I may say that maybe that might be part of the reason people like going back to here. Perhaps not only to drink an authentic egg cup but also to meditate and find some nostalgic past, to remind of the past  and memories.

It's here, I remember six years ago, when I greeted my parents in Hanoi to go to study at  high school in Hanoi, since then I went to many places, I went to Asia and I went to go Europe.

I have set foot in many countries; I have been to many places to enjoy strange drinks, from sangri, volka, to Thai tea ... but maybe somewhere in Hanoi, Just Café Giang that I could find myself so in peace.

The peace which is not that just the normal peace but the peace of the person who has been continuously travelling to so many countries.

If I take a count on the countries I have visited, it would be 21 countries: Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, China, Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece,… etc.

Many countries isn’t it?

But just here. I had a cup of Egg Coffe.

To sum up:
If you want to try Egg Coffee, I guess you will probably want to as you have read my writing.

I can visit this website to find more information about :

http://www.giangcafehanoi.com/

facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cafegiang.vn/?ref=br_rs 

Address1 : 39 Nguyen Huu Huan Street , Hoan Kiem

Address2:  Café Giang 1946 at No. 106 Yen Phu Street.

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