Foods & Drinks

Trung Nguyen coffee is among leading beverage brands in my country. As I know, the company was established in 1996, amusingly by a group of medical students. Just after a few years, they had a franchise network of more than 10,000 coffee shops in the country, and were also establishing several café outlets overseas. Now, […]

Have you heard that weasel coffee is a shit? Well, it literally is. In my mother tongue Vietnamese, it is Café Chồn or Café Cứt Chồn, which means weasel-dung coffee. It has another name: civet coffee, and really is a drink specialty that will make consumer to remember forever. High Prices I have to say that the authentic Café […]

Have you ever tasted or heard about Vietnamese coffee? It has unique flavor that will impress the most discerning drinker. Our coffee products are not so well-known like those of Brazil, Mexico, etc., not yet at least. We still lack of strong brand names like Starbuck, Nescafe, etc. to bring our national caffeine-rich products to […]

When people mention Vietnamese noodles, they may immediately think of “Pho”. It’s true that Pho is a very popular cuisine in the South East Asian country, yet, there’re still many other noodle soups here, including: bún, miến, hủ tiếu, mỳ… In Vietnam’s cities, you’re easy to buy a noodle soup: in restaurants, traditional markets, supermarkets, and […]

Vietnamese dipping sauce (nước chấm or mắm chấm) is an important element in our daily meals, especially going with traditional foods. There’re many types of dipping sauce to serve with different dishes. Therefore, if you going to a Vietnamese restaurant, you may see that one gourmand has as many as five to seven bowls of dipping sauces […]

Tasting Vietnamese fish sauce (nước mắm) is a must if you want to learn about my country’s cuisine. Many researchers consider fish sauce is a typical product of my nation. The Washington Post comments that “like wine in France and olive oil in Italy, fish sauce is the prized staple of Vietnam.” Can you believe […]

There’re many weird Vietnamese foods & drinks that some of you will not even think of. They may be not so strange to Easterners, but are likely bizarre to Westerners. In this article, I want to introduce to you the strangest foods and drinks in Vietnam. Before we move on, I need to give a brief notice. […]