A clean coffee brand to cultivate your caffeine fix Clean, high quality and Vietnamese made—these are at the core of Brim Coffee’s mission to build their brand in Vietnam. Brim Coffee has been exporting from Vietnam to the US, Australia, Europe, Korea, Japan and Taiwan since 2018 and is now focused on providing the same … Read more
Already well-known for its one-of-a-kind antiques, decadent desserts and high tea, Villa Royale has opened a second location in D1 to add comfort food to its repertoire When I was approached to do a food review of an antiques and tea shop I was a little skeptical. Images of dusty relics and worn leather-bound books … Read more
How Puratos-Grand Place Indochina seeks to reshape the cocoa industry The first thing you notice upon entering the Puratos-Grand Place Indochina fermentation plant in Ben Tre is the smell of vinegar. It hangs heavy in the thick Mekong air as farmers buzz in with hundreds of kilos of raw cacao beans slung over their motorbikes … Read more
Mr. Joong Ho understands, perhaps better than anyone, the importance of a clean coffee machine and explains why. “A very important point is that the coffee business is a very cultural business,” observes Mr. Joong Ho, CEO and Chairman of Vovos Corporation— coffee merchants and importers of fine coffee machines, among other things. It’s a … Read more
Coffee given the fine wine treatment It’s often seen as a great pity that for a country producing around a fifth of the world’s coffee, most of the cultural significance of the beverage is lost on the local market. Coffee is a marvelous and complex drink, but whereas the finest things in life are always a … Read more
A most unusual way to brew cofffee An image of coffee slowly dripping through a metal filter into a cup perfectly captures Saigon and its unhurried way of life. However, before the arrival of these iconic metal filters, coffee sold by street vendors was made an entirely different and unusual way. Finely milled coffee powder … Read more
A German entrepreneur’s mission to change the way locals drink their coffee “I’m kind of a drug dealer,” says Dietmar Vogelmann with a wry grin. He’s not entirely joking. As Vietnam’s latest coffee baron in the making, the German entrepreneur is on a mission to address the glut of unhealthy chemical fakes on the local … Read more
Meet the men behind Dalat’s specialty coffee industry The specialty coffee industry in Dalat is going through unprecedented changes. It has evolved from a collection of simple family businesses struggling to sell their yearly crops and keep up with world trends to a complex business with sophisticated entrepreneurs helping the local community get the right … Read more
With big names like Starbucks, Burger King and McDonald’s dominating local headlines, Oi decided it was time to shine the spotlight on homegrown franchises that you may not have heard about, but should Startup Coffee “We obviously can’t take Starbucks head on, so guerilla warfare is the way to go,” Mai Truong Giang, Founder and … Read more
This is unfortunately not only true, it’s considered de rigueur within the Vietnamese coffee industry, and it has been for some time. Back in the old days when locally-based Chinese traders started to realize that this new ‘coffee’ thing that the French were growing on their plantations was something not unlike tea and could potentially … Read more
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