Traditional & specialty · Buôn Ma Thuột
A roaster's first shop in robusta country, with phin and specialty brewing on one menu.
Buôn Ma Thuột is the centre of robusta country, and Soul builds its menu around “fine robusta”, the term for robusta grown and processed to specialty standards. The company says this shop on Nguyễn Khuyến was its first.
What makes the menu useful for a visitor is its range. The same list has phin coffee black and with milk, egg coffee, Huế-style salt coffee, coconut coffee and bạc xỉu next to espresso and hand-brewed robusta, arabica and liberica.
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87 Nguyễn Khuyến, in the centre of Buôn Ma Thuột.
For a comparison you will not get at home, the menu offers robusta both ways: through a phin and as a hand brew.
Photo: Phan Thanh Huyền · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsLý Thái Tổ
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