Cafe Duy Tri
Coffee with frozen yoghurt.
By all accounts this combination should be nasty. When it was first suggested I wrinkled my nose and steered clear imagining a sour affogato, unpleasant fusion striking again. I mean its frozen yoghurt (which I like to call frogurt) with a shot of coffee poured over. How could it be anything but rank? Luckily for everyone involved (especially me), this surprising combination works.
Cafe Duy Tri is so narrow its easy to miss, or to mistake for just another Hanoi storefront selling coffee. But force your way out back, and you’re in a cafe so slender that miniature chairs line the walls with little space for anything else. Order a yoghurt coffee (sua chua cafe, 16,000vnd), just grab a menu and point because this order is a bugger to try and charade, trust me. Up the stairs, all the way to the top and take a seat on the balcony if you’re lucky enough to find it free of canoodling couples. Ignore the cats and the empty fish tank (that’s where they keep their spiders now) and enjoy the quirky retro Vietnamese style while you wait for your dessert/beverage/coffee (I haven’t decided which category it falls in to yet).
A tall glass will arrive soon enough three quarters full of smooth sweet tangy frozen yoghurt. The frogurt is creamy light and tastes just like an aerated frozen version of sweetened vinamilk yoghurt, which works surprisingly well with the shot of chocolate rich Vietnamese coffee. I always want to order another cafe sua chua immediately, and when I’m vibrating down the stairs I’m thankful that I didn’t. It is a surprisingly delicious hit of sugar and caffeine, I just wish Cafe Duy Tri were a little closer to my house.
Cafe Duy Tri
43A Pho Yen Phu
(thanks to @snackqueen for the hot tip!)
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2 Comments
I’ve heard good things about the coffee at Cafe Duy. I’m moving down the road from there in a week or – I will have to go and try it out.
Love that first pic.
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I would looove to try this coffee!….one day, when I’ll visit Hanoi.
ps. love the new Vietnamese food section and the fb P&P page.
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