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Vietnamese Iced Coffee – Brewing Like a Vietnamese Does (Cafe Sua Da)

November 7, 2016 By Victoria

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Coming to Vietnam along with the French or dark roast coffee has become a trend and always-in-demand ever since. Throughout the year, the Vietnamese coffee industry has developed widely to accommodate the unique brewing style to create a strong flavor and bittersweet taste.

Most Vietnamese ground coffees are the Robusta species which contains low acidity and high bittersweetness and roast very dark, as in French roast. They are widely used for espresso and such types coffee, though on the market, most Vietnamese coffee brands would blend in a variety of fillers, a trend during World War II due to supply shortage but too memorizable to forget.

Cafe sua da

In Vietnam, coffee is served at street stands and low-light cafe. It’s a drink that’s more popular from early morning till noon. It is consumed as hot, ice-cold and iced w/ milk. All required the same procedure of brewing with a slight difference in water quantity. Hot coffee will have more boiled water added, while the iced version required less water and higher coffee to water ratio.

Brewing Vietnamese Coffee

“Phin” is the name of the coffee filter that is used in Vietnam. The concept is similar to the French Press, and the goal: the thickest coffee possible. A Phin usually consists of 4 main parts: the filter body, damper, base dripper, and lid. This brewing method takes advantage of the natural water flowing pressure and gravity to slowly drip hot water through soak coffee particles. This brewing style is best used with dark roast bean, which all Vietnamese coffee is.

Vietnamese phin coffee filter
Phin filter parts

You can purchase Vietnamese coffee filters at most Vietnamese markets or simply go online to Amazon or Ebay. Choose the carefully crafted by Trung Nguyen in Aluminum for even and quick heat distribution. Be careful of those cheap copies, cause in the case of filter, it’s totally a hit or miss. Those cheapies are really, well, either not dripping coffee at all or give you a cup full of coffee particles. So shop around before buying could save you a lot of frustration later on. Coffee should be fun and enjoyable, not messy and yuck.

Vietnamese iced coffee recipe

Follow this simple recipe below for your coffee journey to Vietnam.

Vietnamese Iced Milk Coffee Recipe

Course: Coffee, Drinks
Author: Victoria
Strong robust flavor of the French roast coffee combines with the creamy sweet condense milk for a memorizable eastern adventure to Vietnam
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Ingredients

  • 20 grams french roast coffee 1 coffee spoon
  • 80 ml boil water
  • 1 Tbsp sweet condensed milk
  • “Phin” – Vietnamese coffee filter
  • Cup

Instructions

  • Rinse both the Phin – coffee filter and container cup with hot water.
    Rinse coffee filter
  • Stir your french roast coffee before scooping up a spoon into the coffee filter.
    Scooping french roast coffee
  • Lightly shake and tap the filter body to remove air bubble within.
    Tap filter body
  • Put the damper in the filter and tap lightly, do not over-press.
    Put damper in
  • Use you finger or spoon to caress across the body filter’s bottom to remove excess coffee particle.
    Remove excess coffee
  • Place the body filter onto its base dripper.
  • Pour 1 Tbsp of boil water into the base filter and let soak for about 20 seconds.
    Add boiled water
  • Take 1 spoonful Tbsp of sweet condensed milk and add to your cup.
    Add sweet condensed milk
  • Now place the filter w/ base dripper onto your cup, lightly press on the damper again.
    Place filter into your cup
  • Pour about 60ml of boiled water into the filter, cover its lid.
    Add 60ml boiled-water
  • Your coffee should starting to drip and be done in about 4-5 minutes.
    Dripping coffee
  • Now, just add ice, stir, shake and mix the whole thing up. Your iced milk coffee is ready.

Notes

Add a very small amount of salt, like 1-2 granulate, will remove the sour after-taste when drinking your coffee
Vietnamese iced coffee Recipe (Cafe sua da)
 

Filed Under: Drinks & Beverage Tagged With: Coffee, Cold beverage, Vietnamese

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  1. Buck Reed says

    November 14, 2016 at 10:22 am

    Nice comparison, Victoria.

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