COFFEE FILTER – VIETNAM COFFEE CULTURE

Coffee is a drink with a strange charm. It also has its own fascinating stories. The flow of coffee culture “drifts” along, leaving us curious about things around coffee. Have you ever wondered when the coffee filter we usually use comes from? Origin from where?

1. The history of the Vietnamese coffee filter

Since the 19th century, the coffee plant has also followed the French into Vietnam during the colonial period. Perhaps, the coffee filter also followed into Vietnam, gradually becoming more than just an extraction tool. Coffee productivity has become a particular thing in coffee culture in Vietnam. The image of a filter coffee cup is attached throughout the history of Vietnamese coffee culture. And more than that, filter coffee has brought the brand name, a unique feature, the own identity of the Vietnamese people. For the Phin Viet, a coffee filter consists of the cup, press, bottom filter, and lid. Filter materials are diverse, and each has its advantages and disadvantages, but aluminum and stainless steel are the most popular.

There is a theory that Madras Coffee Filter – The original coffee filter from South India with a history dating back to the 70s of the 17th century may be the forerunner of the Vietnamese coffee filter thanks to structural similarities. Originating in the 1670s in South India, the coffee filter was known as the “Madras Coffee Filter.” Also, during this period, France occupied a part of South India, East Indies and developed economic trading activities here.

The original composition of the original Madras Coffee Filter consisted of 2 parts:

The upper container has a press plate, and the bottom is where the coffee powder and water are added.

The lower container holds the brewed coffee.

The two parts fit together to create a shape like a long cup, and the form is somewhat different from the current Phin coffee, which has relatively separate parts like we usually use.

2. Unique characteristics of Vietnamese coffee filter

Coffee filter – a good story about Vietnamese coffee

Modern life and busy pace of life, not to mention the introduction of many kinds of drinks, many new ways to enjoy coffee, but of course, for many people, they can relax their souls and wait for each day. Dripping coffee essence and enjoying a cup of rich filter coffee is still a pleasure every day.

Therefore, the coffee filter hides many stories and confidants of people on the sidelines. Meeting the increasingly diverse needs of consumers, the market today also offers many types of coffee filters, of which the most popular are still aluminum filters and stainless steel filters. These two types of filters have their advantages and disadvantages. Both types of filters are designed in various sizes to suit the needs of your personal, family, or shop use. Moreover, they are flexible and easy to operate. The quality of the brewed coffee is quite good.

The stainless steel filter has an advantage over the cap design, allowing you to adjust the pressure when making coffee more accurately by turning the screw on the shaft mounted in the middle of the filter. This helps pure powdered coffee when brewing will expand, not opening the lid, causing the coffee to overflow and lose flavor. However, the price of stainless steel filters is relatively high, so families or individuals often choose them.

Thanks to their excellent temperature control ability to help coffee taste standards, Aluminum coffee filters are preferred. The aluminum filter is more affordable, but it does not have a screw design with a lid. When brewing, you need to pay attention to slowly pour just enough for the coffee powder to expand gradually, without spilling the powder into the cup. Cafes often choose this type to use in larger quantities.

3. Coffee filter – Vietnamese brand gift

When it comes to coffee filters, none of us are strangers. The image of a filter coffee cup is attached throughout the history of Vietnamese coffee culture. And more than that, filter coffee has brought the brand name, a unique feature, the own identity of the Vietnamese people.

Coffee filter – Vietnamese brand gift

Hanoians call quickly: for a glass of hot brown or an iced brown. And Saigon people order iced milk coffee. Then, they were busy stirring the milk in the cup, no matter how much they started, no matter where the ice melted, the taste of milk mixed into the coffee was cool and refreshing. With that sweet taste, one can increase the budding love of the couple confiding in this exceptional iced milk coffee.

Hanoi is hot again, the delicious taste of a hot brown cup. They enjoy each sip in the cold flowing with the northeast monsoon rushing on the brown roof of the old town or the drizzling rain, the season when she sews winter coats for her husband—drinking a cup of hot brown in the winter, feeling the faint aroma of the coffee, feeling the sweet taste on the tip of the tongue, why do you love Hanoi so much! Perhaps thanks to that, I understood Mr. Nguyen Du when he wrote a verse in Kieu: incense causes nostalgia. The smell of nostalgia is incredibly seductive, from a cup of brown coffee, as the Hanoians call it very Hanoi.

For many years, milk coffee has captivated the people of Hanoi, Da Nang, Saigon, and it has been typical for the Vietnamese urban quality of Vietnamese urban people. It has had merit in experiencing and Vietnameseizing a drink of culinary culture. France, for hundreds of years, has become a pure Vietnamese drink.