Is it a dessert? A drink? Either way, ca phe trung – or egg coffee – is a must-try Hanoi treat. Here’s where to get it.

Perhaps the most famous of them all is egg coffee, or ca phe trung. Invented in Hanoi, this dessert-like recipe adds a topping of egg yolks, frothed with condensed milk, to a coffee base.

But this lavish drink has much humbler roots than you might think. Coffee was introduced to Vietnam in the 19th Century by ...

One of the more recent drink trends to hit the cafes of Hanoi, blended coconut coffee (ca phe cốt dừa) is usually associated with Cong Caphe, a popular coffee chain in Vietnam where the ...

Egg coffee - or 'ca phe trung' - is a blend of coffee and egg whites, folded with sugar, drunk hot or cold. The very first cup of egg coffee was made in early 20th century by Nguyen Van Giang, who ...

Cafe Mai's cup of ca phe cut chon. Photo courtesy of Jon Brand On a recent trip to Hanoi, Vietnam’s coffee-mad capital, a local friend exhorted me to seek out a cup of ca phe cut chon—what she ...

RAW EGG (41A: Uncooked ingredient in ca phe trung) Cà phê trứng, also known as EGG coffee, is a drink that originated in Vietnam. The ingredients in cà phê trứng are RAW EGGs, sugar, milk ...

Trung Nguyên is located at 9039 Bolsa Avenue #101, Westminster, CA 92683. The shop is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Exterior of Trung Nguyên Legend Cafe in Westminster, California.

Yet even without the omelet, there were good things to eat, like a properly griddled breakfast burrito, or a breakfast sandwich gooey with egg yolk and American cheese.

Is it a dessert? A drink? Either way, ca phe trung – or egg coffee – is a must-try Hanoi treat. Here’s where to get it.

Perhaps the most famous of them all is egg coffee, or ca phe trung. Invented in Hanoi, this dessert-like recipe adds a topping of egg yolks, frothed with condensed milk, to a coffee base.