Traditional café
Cà Phê Muối, Nguyễn Lương Bằng
Nguyễn Lương Bằng street
The first shop of the Huế couple commonly credited with creating cà phê muối, salt coffee: phin coffee under a salted cream, at 10 Nguyễn Lương Bằng.
- Salt coffee
Traditional café · Huế
An old wooden coffee house near the Citadel, where salt coffee is a popular order.
Not every café in Huế is about salt coffee’s origin story. VnExpress International, in a 2025 round-up of Huế cafés, describes Chiều as a two-storey wooden house that has been a local favourite for more than 30 years. Chiều means afternoon.
44 Đặng Thái Thân, on the same street as the salt-coffee founders’ second shop, near the Citadel walls. We have not been.
VnExpress names salt coffee as a popular choice here.
Traditional café
Nguyễn Lương Bằng street
The first shop of the Huế couple commonly credited with creating cà phê muối, salt coffee: phin coffee under a salted cream, at 10 Nguyễn Lương Bằng.
Traditional café
By the Citadel (Kinh thành)
The second salt-coffee shop of the couple credited with cà phê muối, in a garden off Đặng Thái Thân near the Imperial City walls in Huế.
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