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[Mike_Jones]

I've recently discovered how amazing Vietnamese Coffee is and I would love to visit a unique cafe in Seoul that offers it. Does anyone know of one?

This is, after all, the esl cafe!

Thanks.

[Son Deureo!]

I don't know of any coffee shops that serve it in Korea, but pretty much any Vietnamese restaurant in Korea will also serve Vietnamese coffee. There's also a Chinese grocery store near Suwon Station that sells Trung Nguyen coffee grounds and the presses. That's all I drink at home now.

If you like it with condensed milk you can squeeze bottles of it at any big box mart in the grocery section as Koreans use it for patbingsu. The Korean name is 연유.

[Mike_Jones]

Thanks so much. Looks like I will be making it at home!

[12ax7]

Yes, just make it yourself. I put ice cubes in a glass, pour a generous amount of sweet condensed milk over it (the stuff they put on pat-bingsu here), and then pour strong coffee over the ice.

[ssuprnova]

Protip: get Russian condensed cream (sgushyonnoye moloko), it makes the coffee taste so much better! You can get it at the Foreign Food Market, it's a metal tin with a drawing of a cow on it.