Other Types of Egg Coffees. While the Vietnamese egg coffee recipe is the one I tried on my travels and loved at first taste, there are other egg coffee recipes out there. Scandinavian Egg Coffee: mentioned in the introduction above, with recipes for both Norwegian and Swedish egg coffee online.

A recipe for Norwegian here. An Eater post discussing how this coffee came to Minnesota via its Swedish immigrant population here. Norwegian egg coffee recipe here.

Vietnamese Egg Coffee Recipe. Egg Coffee in all its delicious glory.

Ingredients for Egg Coffee - 1 egg, 3 teaspoons of Vietnamese coffee powder (Vietnamese coffee is available on Amazon here), 2 teaspoons of sweetened condensed milk, Boiling water.

Vietnamese Egg Coffee Recipe. Brew a small cup of Vietnamese coffee. Crack an egg and discard the whites. Put the yolk and the sweetened condensed milk in a small, deep bowl and whisk vigorously until you end up with a frothy, fluffy mixture like the one above.

Add a tablespoon of the brewed coffee and whisk it in. In a clear coffee cup (we're going for aesthetics here), pour in your brewed coffee, then add the fluffy egg mixture on top. Presto. Egg coffee.

Recipe For Vietnamese Egg Coffee, Sampled in Hanoi. After so many years of wandering for food, visits home involve new recipes and my attempts at recreating dishes I loved and experienced abroad.

I rarely share the recipes here, but I'm going to start doing so. And the first dish that I wanted to share is an unusual one: a Vietnamese egg coffee recipe, a drink that I first tasted in Hanoi.

O Banh Mi @1 Utama Shopping Centre (Basement). Vietnamese Egg Coffee / Sandwiches. Baguette sandwiches are greatly recommended! Most of their food are fresh, although they have limited items on the menu time to time.

Try their Vietnamese Egg Coffee if you haven't. The lime soda is decent compared to other restaurants there. The rice and noodles are pretty average. Looking forward to go back there soon!

Trying Vietnamese Egg Coffee in Ho Chi Minh. Fresh Vietnamese Egg Coffee. The story of Vietnamese egg coffee is an interesting one.

Apparently it was created in around 1940 when Vietnam was separated into the North and the South. Coffee with condensed milk was popular in the south, but the poorer residents in the north couldn't afford to buy it, so they used egg yolks with sugar in their coffee instead. It's very unique and well worth a try.

That is really interesting to hear. When I had the Vietnamese egg coffee, I thought to myself, this is zabaglione on top.

It all makes perfect sense. Egg coffee is such a new concept to me! It makes me want to visit Vietnam just to try it!

Vietnamese egg coffee in North America? Per Seattle Mag‘s 2019 update, you can find some sweet eggy goodness at Brother Joe's craft coffee and teahouse in Seattle's Georgetown.

New Yorkers, you're in luck: as of 2018 Hanoi House now sells egg coffee, a chance for you to try it in person without traveling oh-so-far. Sara Leveen, who co-founded Hanoi House alongside her partner Ben Lowell notes that, “like so many old recipes, it was created out of necessity.” They tried the coffee in Vietnam and it seems were as hooked as I was.

Notes on Vietnamese Egg Coffee and Where to Get It. A reader, Graham, has tried this at home and says another option is to add the yolk to the coffee with the sweet milk and whisk all together.

The foam will then rise to the top. If you don't want to make it with Vietnamese coffee, an alternative in the USA is Cafe du Monde's coffee with Chicory from New Orleans.

In contrast, Vietnamese egg coffee (Cà Phê Trứng) is anything but a clearer coffee with a mild taste. As it appears in the photo above, it is essentially a Cadbury Creme Egg with a hint of mocha.

So the Vietnamese coffee recipe below isn't the healthiest, but it's most definitely a satisfying snack on a cold day.