Now the other day we were at our hotel
and we were going out, I was pretty
excited taking you out for an egg coffee.
Now we went to a place that's fairly
well-known
here, it's got lots of reviews online.
Sadly as you're about to see in this
video it wasn't the standard of coffee
I'd expected, it actually was quite
disappointing, lucky for you
there'll be another video coming up
shortly. It's going to show you just how
an egg coffee should be served but in
the meantime let's get on with my first
introduction to egg coffee in Hanoi
Vietnam. Okay so today I'm going to take
you out for a Vietnamese egg coffee or a
cà phê trứng I think they call it. Now
if you haven't had one of these before
you're going to love it, you've got a
choice of whether you're going to go
with a hot coffee or a cold. I've been
told the cold coffee is a almost like a
dessert, like an ice cream, so be quite
interesting. Vietnamese egg coffee was
invented back in, I think it was 1946,
there was a shortage of milk, some clever
guy came up with using egg yolks to get
that sort of creamy thick texture so it
is a sort of coffee but it's a sort of
dessert, anyway you're going to see
shortly. We're going to sit down you have
a choice of what you want, whoa... always
got to be careful on the street here, the
path, they have paths everywhere but
they're taken up with motor scooters the
whole way so the chances of you actually
walking on the pathways are slim to
nothing. You really just have to walk and
own your space so to speak. Now there's a
very famous Vietnamese egg coffee shop
about, excuse me, about 200 yards up here
go to the left, we're going up to the
right, I'll put the name of this street
up on the screen so you can see.
chopsticks .....toothpicks
toothpick..yes toothpick...chopsticks
and you put the toothpick
in here
all bamboo...all bamboo from incense..
You can see here the artist had some
bamboo sticks they're like chopsticks
and although he said toothpicks what he
meant was incense sticks, so he's using
the bamboo incense sticks because bamboo
is fibrous, he's then dipping it into the
charcoal and using that to apply all the
finer details, on the other end of the
bamboo stick he's got a little eraser on
there so he can lift off to get great
shadowing to create these fantastic
pieces of artwork.
OK so we've got this little alleyway here, pop in and check out
super popular, super busy, there's tours coming
in here as well, so.... hello ..coffee is up. Wow
look at this place, being followed by a
tour group.
or over there..... Now at this point I've
started to lose a bit of interest in
this place, I've asked at least four
times whether they wouldn't mind just
wiping the previous egg coffee that was
all over our table, after quite some time
and asking four times eventually the guy
grabbed a dirty rag off of the stair
banister and gave us a cursory wipe over
the table, another young lad then chucked
two coffees down with all the interest
and finesse of a ballerina in a suit of
armor and to add insult to injury the
water that should be keeping the coffee
nice and hot was tepid, the coffee was
barely lukewarm. All in all not a very
enjoyable experience to be honest.
I'm trying to keep it real on the
channel as you know and today was all
about going out and trying an egg coffee
in Hanoi, in Vietnam. This place is super
well rated, well it's not super, it's one
of those things where everybody has been
and visited i,t it's got a bit of a
history and the family that owned it has
just given up on the place, it's.. it's
really not got any proper service, the
place is filthy and it shouldn't be
filthy, there's no reason. The place is choc a block
everything... it's overly pretentious, the
old fella downstairs is sweet but the
kids and the family they don't really,
they don't really give a damn.
The coffee was at the very best quite
modest, so my first taste of egg coffee in
Vietnam, not good at all. This is Cafe
Giang, it's been famous for it since 1946
but to be honest really not good. Okay
there are many coffee places up and down
here, they do good coffee, this place is
not good. What I do promise you while I'm
here is we're going to find the new
successor to that place, somewhere where
if you're coming to Hanoi, you can
actually go and enjoy an egg coffee in an
ambiance that feels welcoming. So don't
forget to subscribe to the channel and
look out for a video within the next
week letting you know where to get a good
egg coffee in Hanoi. So pardon me
for getting a little bit irate towards
the end of that video, as you saw it
wasn't really what I expected. I
went down to the kitchen to try and have
a little chat with them but they were
just, they weren't interested they were
actually making coffees up for no
particular people at all, there was no
sort of personal attention given to the
coffee making and we were delivered in
this, the floor was covered in litter and
we were delivered a very lukewarm and
very poor egg coffee but don't worry in the next
video I'm going to show you, not far
from here, just how good an egg coffee
can be be in Vietnam. Share the love,
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in the next video, take care.