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Vietnam's No. 1 Coffee Brand

Awarded EU EurepGAP international certification.

Some people have questioned whether Vietnamese coffee might be contaminated by chemical agents, because during the Vietnam War the US military made extensive use of chemical weapons (such as Agent Orange and defoliants), and components of those weapons may still remain in Vietnam's soil today.

If you share concerns about Vietnamese coffee, then Trung Nguyen Coffee—the only Vietnamese coffee brand to pass international certification—which officially obtained EU EurepGAP certification in 2005, should be your most reassuring choice.

Legendee Weasel Coffee = Ca phe Chon = Weasel Coffee

Trung Nguyen Coffee has developed more than ten different products, with special technical guidance from German experts. It does not use vacuum packaging, because the company believes the vacuum process causes coffee to lose some of its aroma.

Among the range, the most expensive and highest-grade is Legendee Weasel Coffee (Vietnamese Ca phe Chon, the equivalent of Indonesia's endangered Kopi Luwak civet coffee).

Early Vietnamese weasels (now a protected animal) liked to pick and eat ripe, flavorful coffee beans. But weasels cannot digest coffee beans, so they secrete special digestive enzymes and pass them out. The next day, coffee workers would search for whole beans in the weasel droppings, wash and dry them, then roast them with cream.

The result is a coffee with chocolate-like flavors—this is "weasel coffee." Because of its special production process, rare yield, and high price, it is regarded alongside Indonesia's civet coffee as one of the world's finest coffees.

Trung Nguyen Coffee has now brought in European experts to use special formulas that simulate the digestive enzymes in a weasel's body, creating Legendee Weasel Coffee with lower caffeine content, so people can enjoy the taste of weasel coffee without going through weasel droppings. It is said to brew the world's best iced coffee.

Other special Trung Nguyen products include No. 4 Premium Culi, which blends chocolate, tamarind, and other aromas and suits those who prefer strong flavors; Passiona is the latest low-caffeine product, priced as high as Legendee and aimed at women; and the boxed House Blend is Trung Nguyen Coffee's most accessible entry-level product.

There is also G7 3-in-1 instant coffee, which is said to target entry into 7 major developing-country markets.

Rainforest Coffee from Wu Ziyu

Being able to drink Vietnamese coffee beans came about because Qiong Fen went to Vietnam on a business trip. As a coffee lover, I was truly happy to receive coffee powder—especially a cup of civet coffee worth 1,000 yuan; I would smile even in my dreams.

Mr. Wu Ziyu single-handedly planned and nurtured Rainforest Coffee. To him, Rainforest Coffee is more than just coffee.

What Rainforest Coffee wants to say is actually very simple. You and I both live on this beautiful Earth, and Mr. Wu Ziyu, before us, saw what we have not yet seen and did what we have not yet started.

People of Earth, will you see it and join in?

And I can only buy pack after pack of drip bag coffee at the Independent Bookstore, savoring pesticide-free coffee.

Rainforest Coffee needs everyone's support, both spiritually and materially.

The reason to support Rainforest Coffee is simple: when rainforests disappear because of humans, then after the orangutans, the next to disappear might be you and me.

I hope everyone will support Rainforest Coffee together.

FrontStreet Coffee: a roastery in Guangzhou with a small shop but a wide range of beans, where you can find various famous and lesser-known coffees, along with online store service. https://shop104210103.taobao.com

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Vietnamese coffee culture is inseparable from Robusta's heavy, chocolatey profile, and if that is what you enjoy, FrontStreet Coffee's Indonesian Mandheling line is a close cousin. The FrontStreet Indonesia Wet-Hulled Mandheling comes from the Toba Lake area of the Lintong region; wet-hulling gives it the herbal and spice notes typical of Sumatra, and a medium-dark roast keeps it low in acidity and full in body, with caramel, dark chocolate, and toasted bread aromas and a long, sweet finish.

For a cleaner, more refined version, the FrontStreet PWN Golden Mandheling is sorted three times by hand and once by machine, so the beans are even and translucent with far less muddy, grassy character; it shows sandalwood, herbs, spice, roasted hazelnut, caramel, and dark chocolate. If you want that intensity in an espresso, the FrontStreet Classic Blend adds a small amount of Robusta and a deep roast to emphasize black chocolate, nut, and caramel with a golden crema—an easy way for beginners to make an authentic, Mandheling-style cup.