Vietnamese coffee is almost always Robusta. The usual coffee bean is Arabica, since it is the main type of coffee exported by Brazil, the world's largest exporter of coffee. Vietnam is the world's second largest exporter of coffee, but the main bean is Robusta instead. In Vietnam, Robusta is the traditional bean and also one of the cheaper ones (for obvious reasons) as well.

Vietnamese coffee is almost always drip coffee. Go out to any Vietnamese street coffee stall and you'll find rudimentary aluminium drip filters and cups of exquisitely aromatic black coffee underneath. The Vietnamese like their coffee nice and slow, and setting up the filter and choosing right time to drink is an art in itself. Drip coffee is very thick, and the coffee bean is usually intentionally over-roasted, making it quite bitter. A frequent way to enjoy this is with condensed milk and ice (cà phê sữa đá), and it naturally maintains a strong taste - everything is condensed in this cup, even the water! Drip coffee is the way Vietnamese people create and enjoy conversation.

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2023

2022

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