Café Culture in Ho Chi Minh City: Part 3
O f course, you’ve already read my Café Culture in Ho Chi Minh City, chronicles Part 1, here and Part 2, here , detailing not just Vietnam’s obsession with cafés and coffee shops….. but er, mine too! As I’ve mentioned before, there’s not a lot for expats to actually do in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), so, part from eating the sublime street food, the former Saigon’s brilliant and unique batch of cafés and coffee shops have been an absolute Godsend - my ultimate way of frittering away the time here. Not only do they serve inexpensive great coffees, especially my #1 preferred, iced coconut coffee ( cà phê cot dừa , an increasingly popular drink in sweltering Saigon) but make wonderful bolt-holes to escape the monsoonal rains, reflect on life, scroll through messages (if you must) and diffuse from the urban noise and chaos. Even during a global pandemic, life carries on as normal in these café’s and coffee houses..... all squashed in together and no social distancing here! A mazingl