Vietnamese Egg Coffee

When you feel tired, you may want to have a cup of coffee. Some people may drink several cups of coffee a day to help them sleep or relax. Coffee has become an indispensable beverage in our daily lives. My day also starts with a cup of coffee.

Recently, I have received information about a coffee that is slowly gaining popularity among some international travelers and backpackers. It is called "Vietnamese Egg Coffee.

It may seem a little strange to put eggs in coffee, but there is a culture of mixing eggs and liqueur with coffee in other countries, as in the case of "Café Uffe" in France. VietnameseEggCoffee " must be one such fashionable coffee! So, the En-En-Eat editorial staff, who are also curious about delicacies from around the world, decided to try to recreate "Vietnamese Egg Coffee" right away!


How to make Vietnamese Egg Coffee
Vietnamese Egg Coffee is made by adding egg yolks and condensed milk whisked together with coffee that has been dripped using a Vietnamese-style coffee dripper. First, use Vietnamese coffee beans and brew "Vietnamese coffee" using a Vietnamese-style dripper.


How to brew Vietnamese coffee
First, rinse the cup of the coffee dripper with boiling water to warm up the utensil. Then, place 3 teaspoons of ground coffee beans in the cup, flatten them out, and press the beans gently with the lid. Pour boiling water into the cup until it covers the lid, allowing the beans to soak in slowly.







The rich, sweet aroma of freshly brewed coffee is in the air. It takes about 5 to 10 minutes for the coffee to fully infuse, during which time you can start preparing the eggs.

How to make the "egg" part
Use only the yolk of the egg. Crack the yolks into a small, deep bowl and add 2 teaspoons of condensed milk to the yolks. Whisk the yolks and condensed milk together with a whisk, incorporating air until the mixture becomes fluffy and foamy. Once the mixture is foamy to a certain degree, add 1 teaspoon of the extracted coffee and whisk again.


According to the recipe on the website I consulted, the egg foam should be quite voluminous and fluffy, but my wrist and portable milk former reached their limits, so I finished stirring the mixture when it had expanded to about 1.5 times its original size. I'll let it go this time...

Pour the coffee into a glass. Then, pour the whisked egg on top of the coffee until it just reaches the edge of the glass.


The result is a beautiful "Vietnamese Egg Coffee" that looks like a latte! It looks pretty good, doesn't it?

Vietnamese Egg Coffee", how does it taste?
How does it taste? It smells eggy, but I bravely took a sip... What? Delicious ......!

If you stir the foam and coffee well, the coffee, which is bitter on its own, is mitigated by the egg and condensed milk, making it mellow and exquisite. The fluffy foam is so smooth on the palate, it's truly a coffee that feels like dessert! The slight eggy smell is charming.

■Let the Vietnamese drink it
Since we're here, let's have someone from Vietnam taste it! So we invited two Vietnamese who work in the office next door to taste it. The two people who cooperate with us are Mr. N from Ho Chi Minh City and Mr. D from Phan Thiet City, which is not far from Ho Chi Minh City.


We hope they will enjoy the nostalgic taste of their home country. Let's have a party!



As soon as he sipped his coffee, Mr. D's face clouded over. Beside him, Mr. N has an indescribable expression on his face.


Vietnamese people do not know "Vietnamese Egg Coffee
When we asked Mr. D and Ms. N if they had ever had coffee with eggs in Vietnam, they said they had neither had nor heard of it. When we asked around to other people from Vietnam, none of them had ever heard of Vietnamese egg coffee.

It seems that "Vietnamese egg coffee" was not only a nostalgic taste, but also unfamiliar to Vietnamese people who have lived in Japan for a long time. Perhaps it is a relatively new drink in Vietnam. Or perhaps it is a maniacal coffee that is only enjoyed by a few people or in certain regions...? Well, this time it's a good thing that we were able to reimport a new drink to Vietnamese living in Japan!

If you are going to Vietnam, please try "Vietnamese Egg Coffee", a hidden coffee (?) in the real country. If you go to Vietnam, you should definitely try "Vietnamese Egg Coffee"!