# How do you make Vietnamese coffee?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** coffee\
**Created:** [December 10, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-vietnamese-coffee/563680 "2010-12-10T17:35:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-vietnamese-coffee/563680/1 "2010-12-10T17:35:50Z")

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Can someone give me a method/recipe? I believe it involves sweetened condensed milk. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-vietnamese-coffee/563680/2 "2010-12-10T18:00:00Z")

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The first thing you need is coffee which is mixed with Chicory. There is a brand you can sometimes find that comes from New Orleans (also occupied by the French) called Cafe du Monde, or you can try a specialty coffee store. You don’t want plain coffee, and you don’t want straight chicory. You want the mix of the two.

So then you make your coffee-and-chicory, the same as you would coffee, except you make it extremely strong. Even better if you have an espresso machine, you can make it as espresso & use 2 shots. But if you don’t, just make ultra strong coffee.

Then you mix in a couple tablespoons of sweetened condensed milk. If you put it in the glass before the milk, it would be around 1/4" deep.

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**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-vietnamese-coffee/563680/3 "2010-12-10T18:13:06Z")

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Linky!

> **[How to Brew Vietnamese Iced Coffee - I Need Coffee](https://ineedcoffee.com/brew-vietnamese-coffee/)**
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> Vietnamese-style iced coffee (ca phe sua da or cà phê sữa đá) is super easy to make and all you need is a stainless steel filter that costs around $7 USD online. If you live in a city with a Vietnamese grocery store, you will likely find them even...

Use a tall glass with plenty of ice cubes in the summer. Noms!

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-vietnamese-coffee/563680/4 "2010-12-12T05:18:20Z")

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> [@Hello\_Again](#):
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> The first thing you need is coffee which is mixed with Chicory.

The Vietnamese drink dark coffee? I guess the French were _quite_ keen on giving the stuff to their colonies.

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**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-vietnamese-coffee/563680/5 "2010-12-12T21:47:14Z")

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Stick a Q-Tip in his ear.

Ba-dum-tss.

Joe