Also known as: Egg Coffee, Vietnamese Egg Coffee, Hanoi Egg Coffee
About this dish
Hanoi's egg coffee: strong coffee topped with a thick, sweet foam of whipped egg yolk and condensed milk.
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Ingredients
☕60ml strong Vietnamese coffee, freshly brewed
🥚1 very fresh egg yolk
🥛2 tbsp sweetened condensed milk
🍬1 tsp sugar (optional)
🌼A drop of vanilla (optional)
Method
Serves 2
1
Brew the coffee and keep it hot, standing the cup in a bowl of hot water.
2
Whisk the egg yolk with the condensed milk and sugar for several minutes until thick, pale and foamy.
3
Add the vanilla and whisk briefly.
4
Spoon the foam over the hot coffee.
5
Serve with a spoon and eat the foam before drinking the coffee underneath.
✓ What Makes it Authentic
Egg coffee was created in 1946 at Hanoi's Hotel Metropole by Nguyen Van Giang, who used egg yolk because milk was scarce; his family still runs Café Giảng.
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