Vietnamese Egg Coffee - A Characteristic Drink of The Hanoi People.

There is a well-known drink in Hanoi that any visitor will want to try when they arrive. It’s egg coffee. It first appears in the 1950s in the Hanoi capital of Vietnam. It was later made known and gradually gained popularity.

What could be more interesting than sipping a cup of coffee in a quiet space, watching the crowded streets, and letting your soul into thoughts?

Fresh eggs, sugar, milk, honey, and coffee are the only ingredients used to make egg coffee. Egg coffee is hot served or cold. But the right taste of egg coffee is you should enjoy hot egg coffee to feel Its flavor completely.

For many people, this name may evoke unpleasant emotions of the thought that It's weird when putting a raw egg in coffee. The raw eggs in this recipe are beaten so thoroughly, and with the addition of condensed milk and honey, there will be no eggy flavor at all. After reading my instruction below on how to make egg coffee, I'm sure you will abandon that thought and will be addicted to this.
Now let's jump into the recipe to make that delicious egg coffee.

Ingredients
• 2 tablespoons of coffee powder.
• 2 egg yolk.
• 3 tablespoons condensed milk.
• 1 teaspoon honey.
• 1 teaspoon sugar.

Equipment
• Vietnamese coffee filter.
• Egg beater or hand beater.
• Cup, spoon.
• A large bowl or smaller bowl will be fine.

Instruction
How to make the egg cream

Beat two eggs and separate take the egg yolk. put the egg yolks into a bowl

Add 1 teaspoon of honey plus 1 teaspoon of sugar into the bowl.

If you use a whisk, also beat the eggs with the sugar and honey first until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is homogeneous about 2-3 minutes.

Then, add condensed milk and beat until the egg cream mixture is smooth, slightly fluffy, light yellow, thick, and no longer smells of eggs.
If using an electric mixer to beat the mixture, gradually increase the speed and beat at the highest speed for about 1-2 minutes. Then add 1 teaspoon of honey and beat for another 2-3 minutes until the mixture is smooth, slightly fluffy, light yellow, thick, and no longer smells of eggs.

Note: Place the bowl over a basin of hot water and whisk the eggs to keep them from getting the smell of eggs when drinking.

How to brew coffee
Begin by bringing some water to a boil.

To preheat the filter before brewing coffee, place it on the glass and pour some boiling water through it. This will help to clean the filter. This makes the temperature distributed more evenly, the coffee expands more evenly.

Next, remove the filter disk from the filter, and put into the filter 2 tablespoons of coffee powder.

Shake the filter gently to spread the coffee powder evenly.

Place the filter disk on top of the surface of the coffee powder, and press the filter disk down gently.

Pour a small amount of hot water into the lid and put the filter on that lid containing hot water.

Then add some hot water into the filter to just wet the coffee powder, and wait for one to two minutes for the coffee grounds to expand slightly.

Add into another glass 2 tablespoons of condensed milk. Then put the filter on that glass containing condensed milk.

Fill the filter with hot water, close the lid, and let the coffee drip down the glass. Brewing time should be 3 to 5 minutes. Remove the filter when you notice the coffee is no longer dripping.

Remove the filter and pour the egg-cream mixture into the glass coffee. Stir it up and enjoy.

Some of the things about the specialties of egg coffee in Hanoi and Saigon

Egg coffee was born in the 1970s-1980s, Invented by Mr. Nguyen Van Giang. He was a bartender at the Metropole, a five-star French hotel in the early twentieth century.

From the cappuccino recipe, he created egg coffee with simple familiar ingredients from Vietnamese people, in order to become a unique, tasty egg coffee that its own distinct flavor.

The egg coffee is not just a beverage but It's creativity in Vietnam's culinary culture.

It became a symbolic image of the Hanoi people throughout the years. Along the ways of the old city, you could easily catch some small cafés there are serve these attractive egg coffee cups.

Nowadays, egg coffee is not exclusive to Hanoi, It has appeared in some big cities, especially Saigon, along with the space recreated in the old Hanoi style. However, to talk about the original egg coffee flavor no place could create the same taste as in Hanoi.

Compared to the original taste of egg coffee in Hanoi then in Saigon the Its taste is changed a little bit by adding more egg and sugar in order to suit the taste of Saigon people.

I gratitude you spent time in order to read my sharing, if you have time let's try the recipes. Take a cup of egg coffee in Vietnam if you have a chance to visit my country. I bet you could forget it hardly.