Vietnam Salt Coffee

Overview

Despite not being as old as iced milk coffee or egg coffee, Vietnam Salt Coffee soon gained popularity. It has since gained the affection of both locals and tourists, turning into a typical Hue coffee. The inhabitants of Hue are proud of this strangely flavorful beverage. Many claim that it's difficult to appreciate Hue's richness and distinctiveness without sipping salt coffee. Let’s explore this unique coffee – Vietnam Salt Coffee with Vietnam Escape Tours!

What is Salt Coffee?

Salt coffee is coffee with a certain amount of salt added without changing the overall taste of the coffee. Instead, salt will neutralize the bitterness and contribute to the flavor of the drink. In other words, instead of adding sugar or milk to your coffee, using salt helps reduce the bitterness of coffee beans. The salty taste of salt can inhibit the bitterness and sourness of coffee, so that when drinking coffee, you will feel less bitter and create a more delicious feeling when drinking. In addition, this technique also richens the coffee flavor. The presence of salt in coffee will help release sodium ions, thereby bringing out the special flavor in coffee. This helps you feel more flavor when drinking coffee.

The origin of Vietnam Salt Coffee

Iced milk coffee is popular in Saigon, and aromatic egg coffee is well known in Hanoi. The Hue Imperial City is remembered for its unique Hue salt coffee whose flavor can not be found anywhere else. Salt coffee originated in Hue and drinking salt coffee was a morning ritual for many local Hue people.

Vietnam Salt Coffee

The story behind

This story tells us about the origins of salt coffee in Hue, Vietnam. A fisherman had just gotten married. He is honest and his wife is also beautiful and kind. One morning, the wife prepared coffee for him before going to work. But she accidentally took the wrong salt instead of sugar to put in the coffee. When giving it to her husband, her husband tasted it but instead of being astonished and annoyed, he was happy and said that the coffee was very good. The wife immediately took a sip and realized her mistake, but she was happy because of her husband's warm reaction. Since then, she has made her husband a cup of coffee with salt every morning, but no longer by accident. They lived such simple lives forever. Therefore, salted coffee not only shows the love of the sea, but also the love between husband and wife.

There are many tales associated with salt coffee, but practically all of them center on love and are the results of errors. A warm love is hidden beneath that cup of salt coffee, which is at once familiar and foreign. Perhaps there is a parallel between love and salt coffee. A love story is similar to a cup of salt coffee in that it leaves you with an unforgettable sensation.

How Vietnam Salt Coffee Is Made

Every early morning, Hue people enjoy drinking salt coffee. The salty taste of salt seems nothing special, difficult to combine with coffee, but strangely harmonizes through ingenious creativity, which helps to highlight the passionate and aromatic flavor of coffee.

The key to making good Hue salt coffee is to precisely measure the ingredients and blend them so that they are neither very sweet and fatty, nor overly salty, but just right. The distinctive and potent flavor of roasted and ground coffee is bitter, but not overbearing.

Tips To Make Good Salt Coffee

Although the recipe is quite simple, not everyone can make a delicious and standard cup of salt coffee. Here are some notes that you should not ignore in making this type of coffee as follows:

Choose pure coffee

The choice of coffee beans and the type of coffee roast, also affects the overall taste of the coffee.

Therefore, you should choose pure coffee and should only grind coffee beans before use. Avoid using pre-ground coffee because the taste will not be as good as freshly ground coffee.

Preparing instruments

You should prepare all the preparation equipment before proceeding to make coffee. In addition, the tool material is something you should not ignore, choose to buy from reputable places so as not to choose the wrong product of poor quality.

Moreover, before making coffee, you should rinse the utensils with boiling water. At the same time, choose to use porcelain cups to keep heat well, or you can use glass but avoid using plastic cups!

Ingredient ratio

Rebalance the ratio of ingredients in the salt coffee recipe such as: coffee powder, salt, condensed milk (or sugar) and boiling water to create the best taste.

Where to enjoy Salt Coffee in Vietnam

Good cafes in Hanoi

Gat Tan Coffee 

Gat Tan Coffee is located at 114 Tran Vu Street, nestled in a small corner - not noisy, not flashy, noisy of Truc Bach lake. salt coffee at Gat Tan Coffee has a bitter and salty taste mixed. However, the most special thing that Tat Tan Coffee leaves behind is the rich, smooth aftertaste in the throat. Salt does not make the coffee taste strange, but on the contrary increases the sweetness, the "smooth" taste for the cup of coffee.

Address:

– Facility 1: 114 Tran Vu, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

– Facility 2: 2B Van Cao, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi.

– Opening hours: 07:00 – 23:00

Gat Tan Coffee

Salt Mate Coffee

After a trip to Hue, the little owner of Salt Mate has collected all the recipes of salt coffee with the "nearest Hue" flavor to bring them back to Hanoi. To suit the taste of Hanoi people, Salt Mate has adjusted and reduced the amount of salt to make the overall taste more harmonious and balanced.

Address:

No. 248A Yen Hoa, Yen Phu Ward, Tay Ho, Hanoi

No. 5 Ly Thai To, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

Opening hours: 7:30am - 10:30pm

T-Kafe 

If you are looking for a standard Hanoi salt coffee shop in Hue, but there are people in your group who can't drink coffee, then T-Kafe is definitely the perfect choice because of its diverse menu. T-Kafe salt coffee has a rich, aromatic flavor but is not "easy to get bored", even if you try to sip it, you still have to order another cup.

Address: No. 119B2 To Hieu, Nghia Tan Ward, Cau Giay, Hanoi

Opening hours: 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m

T-Kafe

Good cafes in Hue

Mo Coffee

Mo Coffee - a cafe with a bold name of Hue - owns a famous and delicious salt coffee dish that anyone who comes to the dreamland of Hue should visit once to experience.

Address: No. 4 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Phu Nhuan Ward, Hue City

Opening hours: 6:00am - 10:00pm

Mo Coffee

Tan Cafe 

Tan Cafe is considered as one of the best Hue salt coffee shops today. Tan knows how to "hypnotize" diners with the taste of drinks. So all ages, from the ladies and gentlemen, to the young people, students can also become regular customers of the shop.

Address:

– Facility 1: 14 Pham Hong Thai, Vinh Ninh Ward, Hue City

– Facility 2: 25 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Phu Nhuan Ward, Hue City

– Facility 3: 86 Dinh Tien Hoang, Thuan Thanh Ward, Hue City

Opening hours: 6am - 10pm

Tan Coffee

Good cafes in Sai Gon

Hut Coffee

Hut Coffee is super famous with a set of three coffees including: Egg coffee - salt coffee - coconut coffee. With the base material is 100% quality Arabica coffee beans, you will feel the salty taste of salt, the sweetness of milk but the aftertaste is still full of coffee.

Address: No. 5 Truong Quyen, 6 Ward, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City

Opening hours: 8am - 8pm

Hut Coffee

Conclusion

It can be seen that salt coffee is a typical drink in Hue. However, today, this brewing method has become the choice of many coffeeholics. For those who love coffee and want to discover new coffee flavors, it is hard to refuse this method of preparation. Although simple, the combination with salt will help coffee promote its own characteristics of flavor. If you have an opportunity to visit Vietnam, you should definitely try this unique coffee.