Liquid Tiramisu? Extraordinary Vietnamese Egg Coffee Recipe! The Correct Way to Make Vietnamese Coffee!

As everyone knows!

Vietnam has two extremely famous specialty coffees! One is the Cà Phê Trứng that FrontStreet Coffee introduced recently, and the other is egg coffee made with raw eggs. Today, FrontStreet Coffee wants to share about the latter - Vietnamese egg coffee, which most tourists definitely check out when visiting Vietnam. Because recently, a new way of making egg coffee has become popular online, and friends who have tried it praise it as "liquid tiramisu." This naturally made FrontStreet Coffee curious - what kind of texture and flavor does it have to be called "liquid tiramisu"?

Exploring Vietnamese Egg Coffee

Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee plans to recreate it according to the popular online recipe today, to see if the egg coffee made is truly as magical and delicious as rumored. But before that, following FrontStreet Coffee's "tradition," let's briefly get to know Vietnamese egg coffee.

Like sugar and dairy products, eggs early on played the same role in Vietnamese coffee as a flavoring to balance the bitterness of coffee. We all know that Vietnam is the world's second-largest coffee-producing country, but it mainly produces Robusta coffee. Robusta is a variety with extremely high yield but relatively inferior taste. With deep roasting, the bitterness produced by Robusta becomes richer and more prominent. For most people, such intense bitterness is unacceptable, so sugar, dairy, and other products have become the primary choices in Vietnam to balance coffee's bitterness. But during the war period, dairy products became scarce locally. Although white sugar could still dilute the coffee's bitterness, people missed the smooth texture that dairy brought to coffee. So, the practice of adding eggs to coffee emerged.

The Origins and Evolution

The practice of whisking eggs and adding them to coffee was invented by Nguyen Van Giang. Initially, the ingredients were only egg yolks and white sugar. After whisking the eggs into a cream-like consistency, they were directly poured into coffee as a substitute for milk (condensed milk). After the war, as dairy products were no longer scarce, Giang added condensed milk, butter, and other ingredients on this basis to flavor and thicken, creating a brand-new version of egg coffee. Because the new version of egg coffee was outstanding in both taste and texture, it quickly became popular after its launch. This also led other local coffee shops to start "copying the homework," and because more and more businesses were making it, egg coffee gradually became a major specialty in Vietnam.

Preparing the "Liquid Tiramisu"

Believe everyone can learn from FrontStreet Coffee's introduction above that making egg coffee is not difficult - just prepare the ingredients, whisk them, and then pour over the coffee. The version mentioned by FrontStreet Coffee at the beginning is also the same, with the only difference being the use of ingredients. So next, let FrontStreet Coffee experience what the egg coffee, known as "liquid tiramisu," really tastes like!

The materials needed for this sharing are not complex: cream, condensed milk, cocoa powder, eggs, and a cup of strong coffee. It should be noted that for stomach health, friends making it at home should preferably use pasteurized eggs. As for coffee, there are many options - pour-over coffee, moka pot coffee, Aeropress coffee, or espresso diluted with water can all work. But it's best to choose medium-dark or dark roasted coffee for making this, so that the coffee's bitterness can complement the sweetness of the egg "cream." The ratio of coffee to egg "cream" can be adjusted according to personal preference~ FrontStreet Coffee chose to use espresso diluted with water this time for convenience, using Warm Sun Blend coffee beans, with extraction parameters: 20g of grounds, 30 seconds, yielding 40ml of coffee liquid (that is, a 1:2 ratio), then adding water equal to twice the amount of coffee liquid.

The Making Process

It's important to note that coffee should ideally be made after the egg whisking is completed, because whisking eggs takes quite a long time - not something coffee can wait for. So, we need to whisk the eggs before extracting the coffee! FrontStreet Coffee's egg "cream" recipe this time is the most widely used online: 2 pasteurized egg yolks, 20ml condensed milk, 30ml cream.

The steps are simple: pour all ingredients into a container, then use an electric mixer to whisk! Whisk until the egg mixture becomes thick and you can clearly feel resistance!

Although it sounds simple, because FrontStreet Coffee's electric mixer isn't very efficient, it took about 10 minutes to complete. Thanks to this, FrontStreet Coffee also understood what it means that laziness drives human progress!

The Final Creation

Once the eggs are whisked, we can start making the coffee! Then in order, pour the coffee and egg "cream" into the prepared cup. (Here FrontStreet Coffee used 120ml of coffee liquid and 80ml of egg "cream")

After filling the cup, sprinkle cocoa powder on the surface, and a "liquid tiramisu" (Vietnamese egg coffee) is complete!

Tasting Experience

FrontStreet Coffee immediately began tasting! The moment the egg coffee entered my mouth, FrontStreet Coffee confirmed the truth of the rumors, because it tastes (or perhaps should be said, eaten?) somewhat similar to tiramisu! The texture is silky and dense, melting in your mouth (of course), with no egg taste at all! The integration between ingredients is almost perfect - they don't mask each other while each displays its own characteristics. The slight bitterness of cocoa powder, the richness of cream, the sweetness of condensed milk, the density of eggs, and the flavor of coffee combine excellently! It must be said that the use of Warm Sun Blend here is truly appropriate - its natural whiskey-like aroma compensates for the missing liqueur flavor, making the entire egg coffee closer to "tiramisu"! Overall, it's really very good! FrontStreet Coffee strongly recommends that friends with time should give it a try~ Of course, finally, a small tip: FrontStreet Coffee stores do not serve this, do not serve this, do not serve this~~

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