When the summer breeze blows on the streets of Hanoi Old Quarter, it’s the perfect time for tourists to come and enjoy the sun season in Vietnam’s capital city. And there’s a must-try drink for coffee fascinados that could not be found anywhere else in the world – a flavorful Hanoi specialty drink – the “Cafe trung”, or Egg coffee Hanoi.

Talking about this special drink, everyone might have heard of Cafe Giang – the most famous coffee shop which is recommended to almost every tourist. However, our newly updated list in 2022 brings a new star to the town. Definitely check the below list of top 5 cafes for Egg Coffee Hanoi when you come to visit our beautiful city.

1. Neo Cafe – Best place to enjoy your Egg Coffee Hanoi

Neo Cafe is the brand new shop on Nguyen Huu Huan street – the street of Egg Coffee Hanoi. It’s difficult to compete with the forerunning neighborhoods, but NeoCafe has earned its credit to be the new star in town.

Egg Coffee in Neo Cafe has a slightly thicker and richer flavor than Cafe Giang. When you order this distinctive drink of Hanoi, it would take about 3-5 minutes to have your cup of dense Vietnamese coffee with the light yellow creamy soft egg foam on top served in front of you.

Original Egg Coffee Hanoi
Original Egg Coffee Hanoi

Strong coffee with sweetened condensed milk and egg yolks whisked in – You would be amazed when drinking this combination from top to bottom and letting your palate explore. Despite being the new brand on Nguyen Huu Huan Street, Neo Cafe has claimed its reputation from tourists when many of them tried and said the quality of Egg Coffee Hanoi here is even better than Cafe Giang.

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Original Egg Coffee Hanoi

If you come with a group of friends, Neo Cafe is a good choice among coffeehouses here. The shop has spacious rooms with modern-style decoration, great street view and comfortable chairs. Beside Egg Coffee Hanoi, you can also try Kombucha – a recently trending healthy beverage – which is also one of the best-selling drinks of Neo Cafe.

Address: 35B Nguyen Huu Huan, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Operating Hours: 7AM-11PM, daily

2. Cafe Giang – The former legend for Egg Coffee

Cafe Giang is considered the original place of this special drink in Hanoi. The first owner of this shop -Mr. Giang, a former bartender in Metropole Hotel – is the inventor of this Egg coffee. Therefore, Cafe Giang serves this drink in its most authentic flavor, according to many Hanoian diners.

The egg coffee comes with a small bowl of hot water to keep the drink always warm. The thick and sweet flavor of robusta coffee and egg cream combined would surprise you.

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Original Egg Coffee Hanoi

The shop atmosphere is warm and cozy which makes its guests comfortable. The owner is friendly and the staff serves really fast. However, Located on the 2nd floor of a small house, it’s hard to find a parking lot here.

Address: 39 Nguyen Huu Huan, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Operating Hours: 7AM-10PM, daily

3. Café Lam – a widely known coffee shop for “cafe trung”

Located in the street of Egg Coffee Hanoi – Nguyen Huu Huan Street – Cafe Lam is among the oldest coffee houses in the city. The shop’s reputation comes from its signature taste of coffee which is exceptional and complimenting.

Using the traditional way to make coffee, Cafe Lam serves you with a cup of hot filtered coffee perched on with machine-whisked egg yolk cream. This recipe makes a low-cost but worthy cup of egg coffee.

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Original Egg Coffee Hanoi

The decorations in Cafe Lam bring a nostalgic ambience with Vietnamese painting collections, small wooden chairs and the smell of coffee beans.

Address: 60 Nguyen Huu Huan, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Operating Hours: 7AM-11PM, daily

4. Café Dinh – a creative mixture of Hanoi egg coffee 

Cafe Ding belongs to the same family as the owner of Cafe Giang. This shop was operated by one of the sons of Mr. Giang, while Cafe Giang was entrusted to another.

Their most prominent drinks are egg cocoa and egg coffee. Cafe Dinh has its own concoction for its cafe trung from the same ingredients of coffee, egg yolk and condensed milk as the family’s recipe. You can feel the strange but excellent mixture of bitter coffee and greasy egg yolk cream for an egg coffee cup, and a sweet flavor for egg cocoa.

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Original Egg Coffee Hanoi

The rest of the menu in Cafe Dinh is monotonous, with only a few other drinks. Together with Cafe Giang, Cafe Dinh is one of the pioneers in bringing egg coffee to the world and making it a symbolic drink of Hanoi. 

For the location and interior, Cafe Dinh isn’t the best one on the street. The look of this shop shows a typical old-school Vietnamese coffeehouse with bare decoration, small rooms and low stools. However, the quality of its egg coffee still covers up that shortage in aesthetics.

Address: 13 Dinh Tien Hoang, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Operating Hours: 7AM-9:30PM, daily

5. Yen Café – Chilling place to escape the streets

Yen Café is a little gorgeous coffee house located in the alley of Quan Thanh street. Getting off the street by the distance of the entrance alley, you will feel so peaceful here without the chaos of city life.

Although egg coffee is not known as its signature drink, this coffee shop still attracts people by its own unique recipe of remaking the egg coffee from the original flavor. Arabica coffee beans are roasted on-the-spot to make this drink and the way Yen Café makes the egg foam brings the creamy balanced sweet flavor to the final cup.

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Original Egg Coffee Hanoi

Beside the egg coffee, Yen Cafe also serves traditional drinks and some excellent Vietnamese snack snacks, such as young sticky rice cakes.

Address: 184 Quan Thanh, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
Operating Hours: 7AM-9PM, daily

For travelers, Hanoi has plenty of specialties and dishes to offer beside its famous attractions. Egg coffee is a delicate beauty of Hanoi cuisine which you cannot miss. Be sure to check out our top 5 recommendations above for an extraordinary sip of this featured drink when you come to visit our city.

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