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Vietnam Café Directory
Highlands Coffee
Highland Coffee
Highlands Coffee is a Vietnamese coffee chain founded in 1999. Using Vietnamese-grown beans, it serves everything from traditional phin-brewed coffee to sweet iced coffee with condensed milk.
Katinat Coffee
Katina Coffee
A fast-growing café chain founded in Ho Chi Minh City in 2016. Named after the historic Catinat Street in Ho Chi Minh City, its concept brings a modern touch to Vietnam’s traditional coffee culture.
Passio Coffee
Passio Coffee
A takeaway-style café chain founded in Ho Chi Minh City around 2005. With the motto “great coffee at an easy price,” its biggest draw is unbeatable value, starting from 19,000 VND (about 115 yen).
Trung Nguyen Legend
Trung Nguyên Legend
Founded in 1996 in Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak Province, this is a brand synonymous with Vietnamese coffee. The real deal: beans grown on its own farms in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, served by traditional phin brewing.
Marou
Maison Marou
A bean-to-bar chocolate brand founded in Vietnam in 2011 by two French entrepreneurs. It makes single-origin bars for each of Vietnam’s cacao-growing regions and runs more than 20 cafés nationwide.
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Columns about Vietnam
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Available online in Japan too: recommended instant Vietnamese coffee products
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[2025 Update] A Complete Guide to Vietnamese Coffee Trends
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Vietnam’s cafés are changing right now: matcha is spreading on the back of a youth trend
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What makes Vietnamese coffee special? The points that set it decisively apart from other coffees
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[A must on any Vietnam trip!] How to enjoy authentic Vietnamese coffee: a deep dive into the types and characteristics
EDITOR’S NOTE
Editor's Column
Stories that don't fit into the news. Our editors write down what they saw, heard, and thought on the ground.
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Vietnam's Café Chains: The Four I Keep Going Back To | From a Tea-First Spot to a Retro Coffeehouse
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Vietnam's Street Cafes: A Seat for 100 Yen | Plastic-Stool Coffee, the Taste and How to Order
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I Went to a Wedding in Vietnam and It Was an Open-Air Beer Garden | A Southern Reception, and How It Differs From Japan
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Safety in Vietnam: What a Resident Actually Watches Out For | The Traffic and Food Notes the Guidebooks Skip
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The rooms at Hotel Majestic Saigon were honestly nothing special. So where is the value in staying there?
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Skipping both Da Nang and Da Lat: the regional cities in Vietnam I go to
The latest from Vietnam
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A bowl of hu tieu at a shop that moved off the pavement and into rented premises goes from 25,000 to 45,000 dong
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CPR kiosks placed for just two days at Cat Linh and National University stations in Hanoi
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Long-distance motorbike taxi covering 238 km in 6 hours; 95% of customers are women prone to motion sickness
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3,297 units contracted by foreigners in Ho Chi Minh City; pink books issued for 316 units
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Company tax arrears of 500 million dong trigger a travel ban on the representative; no minimum threshold for foreign individuals
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Automatic 25% discount on all Green SM rides, through February 28, 2027
