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Street-side · Pleiku

Cà phê Thu Hà

Phin coffee at pavement tables in central Pleiku, from a family that also grows and packs it.

Why it matters

Pleiku is a highland city surrounded by coffee farms, and Thu Hà is the café local press keeps returning to. Báo Gia Lai called it one of the city’s well-known cafés since the 1960s, and in 2023 described a full pavement of close-set tables and regulars. The same family business grows coffee and sells it packaged under the Thu Hà name, according to VnExpress.

The 1960s date is the business’s own account, repeated by the press.

Finding it

9 Nguyễn Thái Học, in central Pleiku. We have not been. The newest press report is from 2023, so check before you go.

What to order

Phin coffee, which is what the reports describe.

Related reading

Rows of coffee on red basalt soil in Gia Lai, bare wooden support poles standing between the trees and a dirt track running downhill between them.Photo: Stef vnmq · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Region

Gia Lai Coffee: The Pleiku Plateau

Gia Lai grows heavy-bodied robusta on volcanic soil north of Đắk Lắk, much of it on smallholdings. What the province produces, and why drying surface matters so much here.

Hot water poured from a battered kettle into the top of a stainless phin standing on a glass mug, a glass of condensed milk waiting beside it.Photo: HungryHuy · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Brewing

How to Use a Vietnamese Phin Filter

The phin is the Vietnamese coffee filter: 20 g, 100 ml, four to six minutes. The whole method, and what to change when the drip stalls or races.

Where these details came from

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  1. Đến Pleiku, hoài niệm với cà phêBáo Gia Lai (Lam Nguyên) · 2023-02-17 · accessed 2026-11-04Thu Hà at 09 Nguyễn Thái Học, busy, with customers at close-set tables on the pavement; the business running from production and processing to export.
  2. Cà phê Pleiku: Truyền thống và hiện đạiBáo Gia Lai (Hồng Thi) · 2018-08-31 · accessed 2026-11-04Thu Hà as one of Pleiku's well-known cafés since the 1960s; its traditional phin coffee.
  3. Ông giáo bỏ nghề, lập công ty sản xuất 14 loại cà phê chất lượngVnExpress · 2017-03-20 · accessed 2026-11-04The brand's start as a small drinks shop in the 1960s; the current owner growing coffee since 1986 and producing packaged coffee.