Traditional café · Hanoi
A branch of the Hanoi chain known for coconut coffee, in Hoàn Kiếm.
Cộng is a chain, and it is here because it is the easiest place to find drinks that the older cafés on this list do not serve. Its menu has coconut coffee, yogurt coffee and a salted-cream coffee next to ordinary phin coffee, which makes a branch a practical way to try several of them in one place.
The company says it opened its first shop in October 2007 and took its name from the first word of Cộng hoà Xã hội Chủ nghĩa Việt Nam, the country’s official name. Its cafés are styled after the subsidy era of the 1970s and 1980s, the period before the Đổi Mới reforms.
There are many Cộng cafés in Hanoi and beyond. We list this one because the chain’s own store list and OpenStreetMap agree on where it is. The original shop on Triệu Việt Vương is no longer on the chain’s list. We have not visited.
Coconut coffee is the drink the chain is best known for. The menu, which is the same across branches, also lists phin đen and phin nâu: black and milk coffee in Hanoi’s vocabulary.
Photo: Amenoc · CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsTraditional café
Hoàn Kiếm, Old Quarter
The café generally credited as the home of egg coffee, opened in 1946 by the bartender said to have invented the drink. At 39 Nguyễn Hữu Huân, Hoàn Kiếm.
Traditional café
Hoàn Kiếm, by the lake
An upstairs egg-coffee café at 13 Đinh Tiên Hoàng by Hoàn Kiếm Lake, opened in 1987 by a daughter of Nguyễn Văn Giảng, the man credited with egg coffee.
Traditional café
Hoàn Kiếm, Old Quarter
A Hanoi café at 60 Nguyễn Hữu Huân that began as a street stall in the early 1950s, its walls hung with sketches artists are said to have left in exchange for coffee.
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