As an expat living in Ho Chi Minh City (a.k.a. Saigon), you soon realize that your immediate needs evolve around coffee and more specifically “iced coffee”. Saigon’s tropical weather adds a level of humidity that you might find in a sauna. So if you’re like me, from a small town in the middle of nowhere USA, you quickly run to a source of iced caffeine and air conditioning. The perks at La Viet stem much farther than the best iced coffee in all of Vietnam. The staff regularly pride themselves of dripping some of most meticulously grounded beans seen in this very competitive market. The coffee bean is the countries #2 export, so you can imagine just by reading this that there are some connoisseurs through a few doors around these tight quarters.
These images don’t really do much justice as the experience with any place needs to be in person. I hope that with anyone who lives and or visits Ho Chi Minh City that they venture off the normal franchise route that dominates the tourist areas and experience something authentically crafted as I have.
Cheers