Coffee is not just a drink in Vietnam, it is a daily ritual, and nowhere is that ritual more inventive than in Hanoi. While Vietnamese coffee culture exists across the whole country, Hanoi has spent decades turning the same handful of ingredients, robusta beans, condensed milk, egg yolk, and a slow drip filter, into an…

Every city has a flavor that marks the turning of its seasons, and in Hanoi that flavor is cốm, the delicate young green rice flake harvested only in autumn. What makes cốm so interesting for anyone exploring Hanoi food culture is not just the raw rice itself, but the wide range of cốm varieties Hanoi…